Ideas are often (usually?) borrowed, added onto, reworked, moved to new mediums. Sometimes it pays to look into the background of the more jarring artists, to find a fine classical education that is being reworked. Look at Picasso's modern work where shapes are distorted, but don't imagine that he couldn't draw them lifelike if he wanted. Music, poetry, literature, visual arts, they're all malleable. We get used to after a while to the modern interpretation, or they go away for lack of interest or lack of content. Poems to songs, songs to poems, and words of both to dramatic music, often evolving beyond the words.

Seems about time to include this bit of wit:

WHEN 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took — the same as me!

The market-girls an' fishermen,
The shepherds an' the sailors, too,
They 'eard old songs turn up again,
But kep' it quiet — same as you!

They knew 'e stole; 'e knew they knowed.
They didn't tell, nor make a fuss,
But winked at 'Omer down the road,
An' 'e winked back — the same as us!

Rudyard Kipling

SRS