New is inevitably mediocre—because it hasn’t had the luxury of being filtered through what might be the most effective quality control mechanism we all have access to: time.
If you haven’t seen the top 100 movies of the last 50 years, spend your time watching those—not the top 100 movies of last year. The same goes for albums. The same goes for books.
Your art will be infinitely better if you allow what has proved to be great to influence your work, rather than the latest ‘thing’ that businesses and corporations are pushing for their own benefit.
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