Anyone who has ever tried to be creative – in music, the arts, in their filing system at their shit temp job – has at some point felt the sinking feeling that they will never come up with anything new; that everything has been done before. And this feeling only intensifies as the internet continues to give us free, easy access to every cultural product in recent human history.So has originality really died for good?
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In this week's podcast, performance artist Marina Abramovic, PC Music's Danny L Harle and TV commissioner Faraz Osman tell us how they deal with the question of originality. Then visual artist Matthew Stone discusses how 2016 may have messed up our feelings towards newness, and explains why, sometimes, it's not all about being first.The VICE UK podcast comes out every Tuesday, covering drugs, politics, music, mental health and everything else we can think of. Listen and subscribe on iTunes.More VICE podcasts:Is It Basically Fine to Sleep with Someone If They're Cheating But You're Not?Employers Still Don't Know How to Deal with Mental HealthHow Has Britain Been Affected By the Rise of Donald Trump?