It's weird in this case. I would call Prince culturally relevant. Few people could do or attempted to do what he was doing with rock, R&B, and pop. I await your explanation for how unimportant Prince was to pop culture.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit was massively popular, and it is now preserved by the library of congress because of its cultural relevance. In its wake, there was one single imitator that bombed. Is Roger Rabbit not relevant because no one else could pull it off?

There are instances where this one, single metric might be meaningless. This is one.

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Posted on 10/22/20 at 10:06 pm to Jay Are

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I didn't dig. He does the same sort of infiltration schemes. And it was of the top of my head.

He is an obscure Dutch comedian that makes indie films

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Jackass didn't play like borat.

Jackass did bits like that all the time.

They just did it as a movie. And it played EXACTLY like a Jackass movie.

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I would call Prince culturally relevant.

Correct

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Few people could do or attempted to do what he was doing with rock, R&B, and pop.

And yet he had tons of imitators. He still has people trying to imitate him, and cite him as an influence.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit was massively popular, and it is now preserved by the library of congress because of its cultural relevance. In its wake, there was one single imitator that bombed. Is Roger Rabbit not relevant because no one else could pull it off?

Off the top of my head:

Cool World
Space Jam
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Monkeybone

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There are instances where this one, single metric might be meaningless. This is one.

I can't think of one. Especially in Hollywood

I can't even think of a major filmmaker, or relevant cultural figure citing Borat as an influence, can you?

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