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“This project is going to allow us to keep innovating,” Dickow said.

I knew there were so many other Black artists who were reinventing the wheel with R&B and innovating within the genre, and it really was about having a collective space and finding strength in numbers.

In any of the above configurations, though, one thing remains true: a musical moves its story forward by taking seriously the disciplines — songwriting, vocal performance, orchestrations, dance, etc. — on which it’s built, showcasing, celebrating and even innovating these crafts.

Over the last few decades, we have become very lazy in innovating, because we thought, “If I can just scale it down, I can make it more attractive. Why bother to think about new things?”

Mr Draghi also said Europe is not innovating fast enough, comparing it unfavourably to the US, which has become a home to several trillion-dollar tech giants.