Janis Joplin.
Geddy Lee
Freddie Mercury
Alanis Morisette
David Bowie

All voices that are instantly recognizable. They had a distinctive sound, not because it was forced, but because it was developed.

They committed to it.
Owned it.
Refused to be produced into something else.

Artists are remembered for their perfection or distinctiveness from what perfection should be. Everyone else melts in the background to be remembered as brief one (or two) hit wonders.

They stay with us beyond their time and place.

The world today is flooded with people trying to fit the mold or be different… which is just another mold they’re trying to fit. Non-conformist conformists as I once dubbed them.

What we need is a commitment to a perfection of that mold, or commit to perfect their own mold.

Everything else is just background noise.