Creative freedom…

I just read a post on Facebook from my friend Elie, complaining about the latest song from Alicia Keys  (In common, wonderful lyrics as far as I am concerned)  and I have to admit that

1. I felt a little bit shocked (and you will understand why in a few)
2. The idea of « creative freedom » just stepped on my mind.

How free is an artist (singer, painter, photograph), to evolve in his art. Indeed, just as Benjamin P Hardy suggests in his post here, in order to evolve in life, you keep on transforming, you change. Therefore, I can assume that based on his experience, based on the changes which occurs in an artist’s life, based therefore on the person he/her becomes, his art can tend to evolve, his art can tend to take a new direction. Continuer de lire « Creative Freedom, a nightmare for our society? »