Revision. I can't remember where I read this, but the quote went something along the lines of, "a text is never finished, only published." Katherine Spivak wrote, concerning Elisabeth Bishop, that it wasn't out of the ordinary for Bishop to revise a poem over one hundred times. Tolstoy continued to work on War and Peace even after its initial publications. Lil Wayne, by creating a new version of his old hit song "A Milli", is demonstrating the necessity for revision in truly blatant fashion. It would be nice if more artists, instead of producing the same crap over and over again, re examined a song and recognized that a piece of art is never as good as it still has yet to be. "A Milli" wasn't a bad song to begin with. Again, true artists obsessively revise, and Lil' Wayne is demonstrating that he takes his art seriously.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Lil Wayne Has A New 'A Milli'?: RapFix Dissects The Orignal
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Hmm, very interesting...and very appropriate as a point to bring up in my classes today :) Thanks for the help ;)
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