Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation

[Kingshango]

I think Bruno is a talented dude and I thought 24k was good.

However, my issue is that I wish that album was done by a black artist. Bruno Mars got away with making a replica Motown album to critical acclaim while black mainstream "r&b" artist's are doing the boring, melancholy, water level sound vocally challenged without studio magic songs featuring Kodak Black or Ty Dolla Signs.

 

[Piff Perkins]

So she dismisses Michael Jackson, who was one of the top 3 most popular music artists of all time, to argue he doesn't really count because...why exactly. First off MTV never banned black videos and Billy Jean was not the first black video on the station. Second off Michael Jackson was never ambiguous about the blackness of his music; you can say what you want about his face/color but he blew up doing r&b, not white pop.

Bruno Mars isn't the problem. I have zero issue with his work, which is largely written by black songwriters. And while you can say he isn't black I'm not sure how much it matters when he's a dark, non-white faced dude. This isn't some Sam Smith looking ass dude. He looks black. A lot of white people think he's black/mixed. If you want to make arguments about non black artists making black music and going far...point to Adele. Not Bruno.

She acknowledges black music is the dominant force of music right now without also acknowledging that the biggest artists in music right now are largely black. Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kendrick, Kanye...that's who is driving music. White people have no issue consuming black music through black people. Do they identify more with certain white artists? Of course. A fat black woman would never reach Adele's heights today, making the exact same music. Aretha Franklin was never as popular as Adele. But going back to the original point...Michael Jackson was more popular than Bruno Mars. Janet Jackson was more popular than any white female artist today.

Bruno Mars has a machine behind him. I'd argue that the fact that he had to make gimmick karaoke music to extend his career says more about the power of music labels than it does about white people not wanting xyz from black faces. Anyone think Rihanna wouldn't destroy sales records if she made gimmicky remakes of Janet Jackson shyt? What about Beyoncé? They can all do what Bruno does on a bigger scale, yet don't.

 

[agpxknt]

Mans got a song called finnese that got nothing to do with finessin.
Drippin in finesse.
shyt LIterally makes no sense.
Mf's just throwing black lingo against the wall and watching it stick.
fukk Bruno,fukk Cacs.
fukk Cardi too.

THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY MUTHAFUKKA WHO NOTICED THIS SHYT

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

To put it mildly, yes. The song is about being fly, not necessarily about hairspray, but think about this back in the day when they went to the club and nikkas was rocking they curls (jheri, s- or otherwise) they wasn't going in there with they hair looking dry and dingy.

And then take into account that his production team for that album is Shampoo Press & Curl. There are hair references throughout that shyt.

One word, breh.

Metaphor.

 

[ThaEruditious]

I think Bruno is a talented dude and I thought 24k was good.

However, my issue is that I wish that album was done by a black artist. Bruno Mars got away with making a replica Motown album to critical acclaim while black mainstream "r&b" artist's are doing the boring, melancholy, water level sound vocally challenged without studio magic songs featuring Kodak Black or Ty Dolla Signs.

That's not his fault that our artists are talentless and lazy bandwagoners.

 

[ThaEruditious]

One word, breh.

Metaphor.

Sometimes you gotta spell it out to nikkas

 

[Cat piss martini]

facts.

 

[chowism]

That looks like a Baltimore Orioles shirt, a team owned by a white person, sold by Fanatics, a white company, while twitter handle is Sensei(Asian Teacher). So is she culture appropriating white and asian culture

is it oochie wally or is it one mic

in before cac this and cac that

I just think a lot of these 'culture vulture' arguments are weak and insane and majority of the time its coming from someone using something from someone else culture in the first place (fashion , etc.). Basically a whole bunch of fakeness for retweets

are there culture vultures? Hell yea! No Jumper Adam dude and Iggy Azalea are obvious. People who didnt grow up around any element of anything they are trying to sell = culture vulture

Bruno Mars why we acting like there arent videos of him as a youngin doin the same shyt he cant be a fan of michael jackson when hes a kid and doesnt even know what the words culture vulture are and mimic his moves he supposed to give up his dreams cause some nerds on a forum called the coli gonna hate him bruno mars was dancing and singing like this before forums was even invented

im probably gonna get negged for this post but fukk it, the shyt needs to be said.. this shyt getting ridiculous.. so a mafukka cant dance and sing since a lil kid no more

If bruno mars a culture vulture than anyone who posts in this thread agreeing with her who owns a Polo, Gucci, Versace or anything like that a culture vulture as well you cant complain about it and then do it yourself

just tired of the fake outrage

 

[MikeyC]

Ain't that that @Stacker Pentecost broad?

She's always got a stick up her arse about something.

 

[Hungerpain]

To put it mildly, yes. The song is about being fly, not necessarily about hairspray, but think about this back in the day when they went to the club and nikkas was rocking they curls (jheri, s- or otherwise) they wasn't going in there with they hair looking dry and dingy.

And then take into account that his production team for that album is Shampoo Press & Curl. There are hair references throughout that shyt.

I know what the song Is about my point Is they fumbled wit the lingo.
Can't say they "Drippin" in the slang sense than try sqeeze in finnese in a reaching attempt that doesnt correlate just because it's a popular term now.

shyt STILL doesn't makes sense because finesse not something you can have on you even in the litteral sense.

So unless they talking about that hairspray you posted (which we know they not) my point still stands.
shyt is goofy.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

The internet has allowed mofos to talk about things they don’t know anything about.

If this album failed, would they still have a round table discussion about it?

One of the causalities of success.

 

[#1 pick]

She's right. I think Bruno is good but let's be clear, he's able to do a dope genre all by himself. That's some fukkshyt for ya ass. Just imagine all of the talent like Bobby Brown, Baby face having an entire dope genre by themselves with no comp. Like Prince was Mike's comp. To me, Bruno can't be respected till BM and BW are able to get back into this genre with which labels and radio locked us out of

 

[50CentStan]

That looks like a Baltimore Orioles shirt, a team owned by a white person, sold by Fanatics, a white company, while twitter handle is Sensei(Asian Teacher). So is she culture appropriating white and asian culture

is it oochie wally or is it one mic

in before cac this and cac that

I just think a lot of these 'culture vulture' arguments are weak and insane and majority of the time its coming from someone using something from someone else culture in the first place (fashion , etc.). Basically a whole bunch of fakeness for retweets

are there culture vultures? Hell yea! No Jumper Adam dude and Iggy Azalea are obvious. People who didnt grow up around any element of anything they are trying to sell = culture vulture

Bruno Mars why we acting like there arent videos of him as a youngin doin the same shyt he cant be a fan of michael jackson when hes a kid and doesnt even know what the words culture vulture are and mimic his moves he supposed to give up his dreams cause some nerds on a forum called the coli gonna hate him bruno mars was dancing and singing like this before forums was even invented

im probably gonna get negged for this post but fukk it, the shyt needs to be said.. this shyt getting ridiculous.. so a mafukka cant dance and sing since a lil kid no more

If bruno mars a culture vulture than anyone who posts in this thread agreeing with her who owns a Polo, Gucci, Versace or anything like that a culture vulture as well you cant complain about it and then do it yourself

just tired of the fake outrage

Real spit. I wonder how many authentic black artists she went out and bought albums and supported im gonna take a guess.....0

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

I think Bruno is a talented dude and I thought 24k was good.

However, my issue is that I wish that album was done by a black artist. Bruno Mars got away with making a replica Motown album to critical acclaim while black mainstream "r&b" artist's are doing the boring, melancholy, water level sound vocally challenged without studio magic songs featuring Kodak Black or Ty Dolla Signs.

How's this Bruno Mars fault? This post is pure salt.

Now he's responsible for Chris Brown singing that hoes ain't loyal or Ty Dolla Sign singing about his two bytches in the club at the same time?

 

[Astroslik]

So she calls herself “sensei” but talks about cultural appropriation?