Creativity

The New Yorker article, "1+1+1=1, The New Math of Mashups" explains how creativity is used to combine already existing music to create new music or mashups. Examples are given with songs such as by Christina Aguilera and The Strokes, where their songs each had their own meaning but when creativity was used to combine these songs it created a new song in a sense that another meaning was brought from the already existing lyrics and sounds used. This proves how even with something existing or old, new media and technology allows people to be creative and make something new. A real life example of this is the music genre hip hop which was at first derived from mixing old existing songs to create a beat for one to rap over, which led to a completely new song.