Ariana Grande finally being called on her blackface/appropriation bullshyt

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

This is utterly false, sir. Teena was being played on AM ('White') radio at that time since that's all my mom's car had (1972 Chevy Nova).​

Teena's single in 1979, "I'm a Sucker For Your Love" made it to #8 on the Billboard R&B single chart, but did
not enter the Billboard Pop Singles chart at all. The R&B chart reflected Black radio play, the pop chart reflected white pop radio play.

Also, disco didn't 'die' until the early/mid-80's. The whole 'Disco is Dead' thing came to a head in 1979, but there were still disco songs being made and played on regular rotation. Hell, Chic's Good Times came out in 1979 and that's a perfect example of the 'disco craze' NOT being over when Teena debuted.​

Re "Good Times": Nile Rodgers, the co-founder of Chic, didn't refer to their music by the limited term "disco":

"Chic’s self-proclaimed “sophisto-funk” was based around taking dense and intricate chords not typically heard in pop music and masking their complexity behind an infectious and distinguished groove. ‘Everybody Dance’ and ‘Le Freak’ were quickly followed by ‘I Want Your Love’, ‘My Forbidden Lover’ and the track that went on to influence the beginning of hip- hop, ‘Good Times’. At the core of their creative relationship was Rodgers’ and Edwards’ “golden rule” production technique DHM: Deep Hidden Meaning. Every song had to have an underlying significance beyond the initial lyrics and perception, “understanding the song’s DNA and seeing it from many angles”."

Nile Rodgers and the height of Chic

that's a perfect example of the 'disco craze' NOT being over when Teena debuted.​

1979 is generally considered to be the end of the "disco craze" instigated by the gruesome Disco Demolition Night Promotion - led by Chicago rock radio deejay Steve Dahl.

"Disco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion on July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Many of those in attendance had come to see the explosion rather than the games and rushed onto the field after the detonation. The playing field was so damaged by the explosion and by the fans that the White Sox were required to forfeit the second game to the Tigers.... Disco Demolition Night preceded, and may have helped precipitate, the decline of disco in late 1979; some scholars and disco artists have described the event as expressive of racism and homophobia. Disco Demolition Night remains well known as one of the most extreme promotions in major league history."

Disco Demolition Night - Wikipedia

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Teena's single in 1979, "I'm a Sucker For Your Love" made it to #8 on the Billboard R&B single chart, but did
not enter the Billboard Pop Singles chart at all. The R&B chart reflected Black radio play, the pop chart reflected white pop radio play.

Meaningless. Many songs got played but didn't 'chart'.​

Re "Good Times": Nile Rodgers, the co-founder of Chic, didn't refer to their music by the limited term "disco":

Producers were trying to downplay the negative press due to the oversaturation of disco on the airwaves and referred to these musical forms by other terms such as 'post-disco' and 'boogie' or 'High NRG'.

They were STILL 'disco' due to the beat.
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1979 is generally considered to be the end of the "disco craze" instigated by the gruesome Disco Demolition Night Promotion - led by Chicago rock radio deejay Steve Dahl.

'White' people considered it the end of the 'disco craze'......even though there were still disco records being made.......



'Black' people paid 'White' people no mind.​

 

[Booker T Garvey]

ariana grande's handlers are smart- they are culturally knowledgeable enough to stick italian culture to hispanic culture and present the similarities of both as latin and make her face brown enough to make sure her actual origins and her fake ass origins collerate you know.

plenty of sicilians/italian cacs when darker look like cubans/PRs/Dominicans....so its a winning strategy. And actual Latins actually colonized hispania/lusitania(aka actual spain and portugal) with human capital. So much that historians speculated that roman empire italy was populated of semitic blood people only 1 century after the Lord Jesus Christ. In the New Testament. Paul referred to Hebrews in the flesh....probably the descendents of Semites in Europe/Roman Italy.

this still doesn't explain why she's sounding like lil' ariana from the 9th ward up in that twitter video up there

They know what they’re doing, they gave that girl some flavor to make more $$$

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

She already told y’all she got no more tears left to cry

 

[Kaypain]

Pawgs tan everyday b

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

'White' people considered it the end of the 'disco craze'......even though there were still disco records being made.......


'Black' people paid 'White' people no mind.​

Except that Black people at the time didn't use the term "disco" to describe our music. A "disco" was a place to party, not a type of music.

Gamble and Huff said they made "danceable r&b." Chic and Mtume called it "sophisti-funk."

In fact, "disco" became the catch-all phrase that white people applied to all black music during that era (once again, see Steve Dahl and his racist cronies in pop and rock radio). White music radio formats bragged that they didn't play "disco."

When MTV launches in 1981 without playing Black artists, their excuse was that they were a "rock"-formatted channel and didn't play "disco."

In the meantime, folks continued to make "groove" music. Earth, Wind & Fire hits with "Let's Groove." Ray Parker had it right in 1980 on "For Those Who Like To Groove":

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

im more shocked people thought this chick was Latina

nikkas never wikipedia'd her in like 3 years?

Spoiler

still would smash

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Except that Black people at the time didn't use the term "disco" to describe our music. A "disco" was a place to party, not a type of music.

We didn't call it 'disco' anymore and referred to it by other names, but that's EXACTLY what it was. In the early-80's, the prototypical 'disco' sound began to be replaced by less complex musical arrangements. Instead of horns and strings, you got synths and drum-machines and an influx of jazz. What's funny about all this is that 'White' people referred to ALL 'dance music' as disco, but Black people had a very specific definition of what the genre consisted of which is why we continued to listen to 'disco' after it was supposedly 'dead' in 1979. To us, 'disco' wasn't defined by WHERE it was played......







'Groove music' is just another synonym for disco like 'Hi-NRG', 'boogie', & post-disco'.

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[dora_da_destroyer]

Well damn, I didn’t know she was Italian

And damn, I didn’t know Selena and Demi were both only half also...cacs love to play to their “ethnic” side. Smh

 

[Kasgoinjail]

If it isn’t spicey IE mixed with Afro
It isn’t popping

End of anyone who says otherwise is a LIE

 

[Kasgoinjail]

You all should watch this if you haven’t yet




Will probably shed some light as to why so many lust after the Kardashian people and why they are always happy to tell us they are Armenian

 

[RammerJammer]

I remember when I found out that Tazz wasn't black, I was like