I totally agree with Rachel and the point that she made about not realizing that many forms of music and art can be classified as copies. Before reading Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation I would have viewed many elements of popular culture as true originals not copies. But like John C pointed out in his post, it is extremely difficult to come up with one’s own genuinely new idea. I am not very big into art so I never really noticed the various types of copies that take place in galleries until we watched the movie in class. However I do pay attention to music and there are a great deal of imitations and near copies that are played off as “remakes” in the music world. Almost everything out there is a copy or an adaptation of someone else’s work and I honestly feel that in this day in age true originals can no longer exist. The key to popularity however is creating something that fits into the current period and its trends.