Authenticity
What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?
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Authenticity
I'd either drive people away or they'd come in closer to see what it was all about. There was no in between.
-Bob Dylan
Donald Glover in an interview with The New Yorker: “Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”
Swept up in the Instagramization of the 2010s, the contemporary poetry world saw an exaltation of ‘honesty’ as an aesthetic priority. Poetry not as craft, but as ‘outlet,’ with the goal not of developing ourselves and enriching our understanding of the world, but of sitting more comfortably with how we already were and what we already believed.
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Meanwhile, a fixation on honesty continues to pervade popular arts discourse, music included. Indie scenesters have historically been the ones to agitate most over authenticity, but in the golden age of confessional pop music, the aesthetic concern with honesty isn’t limited to subculture anymore. Direct access to artists’ personal lives seems more
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“I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.”
–Frank Ghery
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The people I admire most live in total alignment. They know who they are, what they want, and what they value. Their mission is clear and so are their priorities. And so, they live uncompromisingly. Family, friends, work, health and spirituality coexist as a single unified whole.
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