HW Creativity

New media, I feel, has impacted entertainment the most. As discussed in 1+1+1=1 The New Math of Mashup by Sasha Frere Jones, referred to new media as a method for different artists to be able to come together and form new music. For example, she talks about how The Grey Album which is a mixture of Jay Z's vocals with The Beatles' White Album. She then continues to explain more examples of how many artists can come together in collaboration to make a single album. New Media is able to allow technological advancements that offer different sounds, cuts, toons, and many other factors that make a song and allow people to alter these sounds to make a new song. It also lets people to get creative. As mentioned in the article, making the music isn't the hard part. Selling the label is the hard part. So with such advancements and now able to let anyone create things at home, it offers everyone a chance to make music. For example, YouTube was a great place for many young singers to be found and become a star. Justin Bieber was a clear example of that. New media is a platform for people to develop their hobby and make it into a living dream. Even for existing stars, it allows them to work more efficiently and create new forms of music and entertainment that wasn't capable earlier.