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A Trendsetting FollowerIt has long been this artist's contention, borne out by his career, that following trends is far harder than setting them. Happy the trendsetter, free to roam unencumbered on the wings of inspiration through virgin imaginative forest where no fad has gone before, knowing nobody is ahead of him. Pity the follower, blindly tracing a preblazed path and never daring to deviate from it in a humiliating game of monkey-see, monkey-do.
All enough to crush the most vibrant creative spirit. Providential it is, then, that this artist's creative spirit arrived already preflattened, extruded, and disassembled, and that freed from the outset of accusations and innovativeness, leadership, and vision, he so quickly found his natural groove, or rut, far from the glaring heat of attention and admiration that trendsetting can generate, making it so hard to see the drawing board.
To name a trend is to vouchsafe that this artist has followed it, or will as soon as news of it trickles down to his level. The topless bathing suit, pet rocks, Vietnamese cuisine, mutual funds, homeboy clothes--if these strike the connoisseur as odd trends for a musician to follow, this musician could not more vehemently agree. Yet withal, preferable to trends in the music world. "They're exactly what you're expected to follow," snaps the artist, whose career has been about--if it has been about anything, the jury has requested a clarification of "about"--defying, nay, disappointing the expectations of others: his family's expectation of three squares a day; the car wash's expectation that he will keep his hands off the "For a Rainy Day" can; the stop sign's expectation that he will obey its order, as unambiguous as the artist himself.
Or is he? Opinions differ. It is no simple matter of black and white. Arguments can be made on the one hand and then again on the other. What is important, in the end, is to consider both sides of the question, and only then decide. But as the artist always says to creditors, no rush!
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