Doobie Doo
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Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation
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Nigerianwonder
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might be the dumbest shyt i read all week
the ISP im using is white owned am I not suppose to use the internet?
the fukk does any of this have to with Bruno making a pseudo Now Thats What I Call Music complication all of the great funk records in the past and receiving more accolades, credit (and most importantly) money then the artists hes imitating?
Accolades and credit from whom? Why are you so worried about seeking white acceptance. Grammy's have always been the white folks award show.
It's black folks responsibility and obligation to support and celebrate our own artist. That's not on Bruno, or anyone else. The measuring stick of success is not whether white folks accept it and love it. But like some folks already said... popular black artist don't even make traditional black music anymore so how can you be mad at Bruno.
We all know this ain't the majority of people. Stop acting like it is.Only reason a culture vulture like Bruno is relevant is because these new blacks have zero pride in being black, running away from it as best they can and clinging to white liberals and non-black minorities as if they weren't complicit beneficiaries of white supremacy.
This don't matter if you take the always what made that music great. A lot of quality artists. Group, solo, male, female. Just all around dope music. Cuture vulture is whst he is
Michael Jackson would be a star if he came up on the moon. I agree that whites love whites who sound black, but great black talent is indeniable
Like calling something or someone aesthetically pleasing “bad” rather than “good”?
Or referring to a woman you adore as your “bytch” is acceptable?
However, using Finesse more correctly got you fired up?
No offense to her, but u know how our people like to sit in a circle and complain. Can any of them lay out a clear strategy on how we can fix the problem?Real spit. I wonder how many authentic black artists she went out and bought albums and supportedim gonna take a guess.....0
Hungerpain
Banned
Grown men talking take your feelings elsewere buddy.
ThaEruditious
She luv it over here like Gold Watch.
Reread this. If you spray Finesse on your hair, that's LITERALLY having it on you. So all the years of joking on people wearing too much hairspray are suddenly tossed out the window? Okay breh, you got it.
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This is where she is off base on Bruno,for the simple fact that irrc Bruno Mars got his start with Motown Records,the Motown records. There is tradition there and I would expect someone who was signed to that label,be of the pedigree to where they may make this type of music. Context is very important,its important to acknowledge how someone came into the game and if they did so respectfully and paid homage. Far as I can tell Bruno actually has,plus I saw an interview where he said he listens to Suga Free,so I think he is legit. If his music lacks authenticity it is probably just genetic in that he lacks the soul to pull off funk how it should be done
The only crime here is that black artist left black genres in droves to make white music
Young black artist should be outfunking Bruno to the point that point Bruno can't make his version of funk anymore. Black people may not move the needle on non black artist,but we still move the needle on black artist,that gets non blacks checking for them. The problem is most of these black artist music isn't any more authentic, than their watered down white counterparts.
You mean take my logic somewhere else because it negates my emotionally-fuel point.
BKA “I hate that this dude is winning with something I cared less about until he started using it.”
She's spewing nonsense. She's simply a hater. If you don't like Bruno, cool. But I hate how black people wanna recognize their historical feats for props and then get mad when someone that's not black is influenced by it. Thriller sold a bazillion records....you don't expect one Samoan and Filipino kid to grow up influenced by it? And all of a sudden he's wrong because he's getting mainstream props for doing it? For all those white people that likes their blackness from non black people, he correctly informed them when he won his Album of the Year that it was Babyface, Teddy Riley, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis that influenced him. He's gone outta his way to defer to the great black artist that influenced him many of times. Yet these same shea butter broads won't support an Usher album.
We disrespecting Jon B now?Now people mad at Bruno Mars, how did people feel about Jon B in the 90s, is this just another case of fake outrage?
at cultural appropriation with pop music. Appropriation is in itself the very core of pop music and it doesn't take a round table discussion to dissect it. Sh!t, Black people appropriate from Black people and one only need to look at how watered down Hip Hop and R& B has become throughout the years as an example of Black on Black appropriation which eventually opens the doors for non-Black folks to swoop in like vultures and pick what's left of the carcases.
I can't take not one of those folks seriously. Folks like that chick are hilarious to me too. Get some dreads, some tea tree oil, read poetry, add a couple words with multiple syllables to your vocabulary, learn to use your hands excessively while talking, and then sit at a round table discussing how a racially ambiguous pop artist is mimicking Black music. That b!tch ain't got nothing better to do? They're really sitting there at the table like they're figuring out how to split an atom. Can't make this sh!t up. Then the folks in the background, "facts!", "Right!", etc.. Room full of retards.
I'm saying
A round table discussion on Bruno Mars is a waste of everyone's time especially when he admits that all styles have roots in black music. If you acknowledge and credit the creators what is there to fight over?
Once you turn culture into a commodity you are no longer the gatekeeper the corporations who package and sell it are. You're opening the door for others outside of your culture to buy, participate, and even rebrand. You can't close that door after the fact.
