Or derived from it, which can be written down to influences. That's not to say that things that are similar to another artist are inherently bad. Would you rather live in the first mansion ever built or the best mansion ever built years later?
Here's the dictionary definition of derive, the word that derivative is derived from: base a concept on a logical extension or modification of (another concept).
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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
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