Q: Whenever I try, I just end up sounding like the music I'm listening to at that time. I really like the songs but I'm not really doing anything *different*. Help?
A: here's a good trick. instead of making them the amount of 'different' you might have had in mind, try making them 50 times more different than that. make them so different that you run the risk of making them terrible. the thing about this is, the music will get mad and get revenge on you by becoming good, and because you already flung everything out so far into different land, the path from terrible to good will be unique. and also that's the best part about music, is the path from bad to good. not when it's just good, because then there's no path and you don't really get to go anywhere