Hinton’s YouTube mining habits, and subsequent songwriting, feel distinctly contemporary. In a time when memes—themselves an elaborate form of (often uncredited) cultural recycling—have become a valid form of nuanced expression, why wouldn’t musicians source anything and everything at their disposal in an effort to most effectively communicate their emotions? Creation is increasingly defined by recontextualization, and when everyone is constantly being bombarded with content, perceptions of authenticity often become uncoupled from scrutiny of artists’ individual processes.

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