I wonder if there are still any new styles of music left to be discovered. We have seen so many different forms of each genre that I now tend to believe everything has been done before.

If you think about it, there are no longer any bands or singers doing anything that is unique. This is not their fault (and I’m not trying to be gloomy about it) but when you write a song in the present day, you can’t really do it in a very original way.

But it isn’t so long ago that new styles were still coming about. Hendrix changed things forever by using distortion rather than avoiding it and Rap music was a pretty fresh way of putting words across. But can anyone else come up with something that is genuinely new?

And this doesn’t just apply to the world of music either. What is there left to do in art? We’ve had Expressionism, Surrealism, Dadaism and Pre-Raphaelite; is there room for anything else? I think that if someone does manage to do something new then he (or she) will become a very wealthy person indeed.

I suppose that you could say there are still some new ideas in film. Well, at least ‘Toy Story’ was new until they went and created a hundred clones of it. And James Cameron’s new; ‘Avatar’ is, apparently, a step in a new direction. ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Sin City’ were both original styles of film but, when you think about it, something is now becoming evident. All of these examples of unique movies are dependent on technology; without it they are nothing special.

So, are art, music and film now only reliant on that? Perhaps so. There really doesn’t seem to be anywhere else for things to go. But this is only my opinion; I may be wrong… and I hope that I am.

As a closing thought, it was recently my birthday (if any of you have forgotten), and my friend Aaliyah gave me a chemical skin peels gift certificate. I was plesently surprised that it was actually quite delightful.