[Glice]

The problem I have with a lot of musician's idea of variety is that it's always a very narrow sense of variety. It's easy enough to parody, say, 'Gregorian' chant (which isn't necessarily 'Gregorian'), but there's a subtlety that's often indiscernible initially that is lost, inevitably. To students of early chant there's a massive difference between, say, Tallis and Bingen (the only names I know well in that field) and it always strikes me as disengenuous to throw away the majesty of any music with an ill-prepared pastiche.

Of course, it's all organic, and a things grow out of other things - Soukous is meant to be some African version of rock n' roll, but it's entirely different. I'm not entirely in opposition, but a lot of musicians seem to go about pastiche (which I'm not opposed to) in a very cavalier fashion.