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Taking a look at Blade by Mart Avi
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NATALIE JENKINS, LJI reporter
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The essence of art/avant-garde pop is to deviate from the norm. What is false becomes true; dreams turn to reality.
Artists in this loose subgenre take inspiration from other media – including film, art, and poetry – and weave them into pop’s more structured and accessible rhythms. The result: strange, imaginative lyrics that, for the most part, engage in fruitful conversation with instrumentals that are extracted from other genres.
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Mart Avi.
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