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Perhaps, with so many burdens, as far musical genres, that society has on it today, many people have become accustomed to styles and music that sound completely different from each other. Sure, many composers compose in "out-of-the-box" styles to differentiate themselves from others in order to spark unique creation. Many composers that compose music using the same "out-of-the-box" methods do it simply because they like it. I think we (and this is all of us), as composers care too much about what people think of our music in terms of taste, 'energy,' uniqueness, and just how it sounds. We forget that we're artists and sometimes artists have to say "screw it" to what others think, and just do what they do, if not for their own self-satisfaction, then for their art. I don't mean simply that we don't care, because we should care, at least somewhat, in order to gain an audience, but caring too much can lead us down a path of artistic self-destruction. Claude Debussy said, "Some people wish, above all, to conform to the rules; I wish to only render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law." Just something to think about.