No ones original every ones taken an idea from a band or some other resource and turned into there own style. I would presume that that was just a insult to put you down. Just be the bigger man and refuse to think the way they do. I do understand how you feel because I had a problem with this before only thinking that I am following in my sister’s foot steps.
Think of it like this: You have drawn a picture and some one photocopied it over centuries but there is still the one who first drew that picture and that picture is there own style. Remember some one had to create something first it was just manipulated into a style of some type.
They are just as much 'poser's' as you are.
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