If you are a game-changing artist, then you have to accept that there will be a wave of acts who follow in your wake that, to put it one way, will be influenced by you or, to put it another, completely rip you off. That is the way it goes, a tale as old as time.
Take a band like Radiohead, who reinvented rock in emotive new hues in the mid-90s and then had to watch as a load of bands watched what they did and copied it. Their combo of moving, poignant falsetto vocals, acoustic guitars and gently soaring ballads was only a part of the sound that made up their masterpiece second record The Bends, but it became a very appealing one.
