A perfect example is Lord Buckley. Lord Buckley took the classics in the 50s and he put them into hip talk. They're hilarious, but they're also very bracing. It's a living thing, these are not museum pieces, they' re not meant to be kept dust free under vitrines. They're meant to be part of the messy world that they were created in.
Nothing stays the same in perpetuity.
You've had rap versions of Romeo and Juliet, you've had brooding existential versions of Hamlet. Everybody has done everything to these texts and they still survive, they're still vital, they're still vivacious, they still breathe and they still communicate to people in a way that is tremendously exciting and moving. Something's gotta live, it's gotta breathe. And that means it's gotta change. I guess I'm a catalyst.