Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Where was all this energy for Adele and Sam Smith? Bruno apparently didn’t make the intersectionality cut

 

[Kingshango]

This thread got me thinking, I wonder what a Bruno Mars salsa album would sound like?

 

[George's Dilemma]

You said all that to discredit her but yet she's still right.
I dont rock with her type neither but the truth is the truth no matter where or who its coming from.
Yall nikkas cant juelz what she said away without it being considered caping.

As I said earlier though, pop music is basically appropriation in itself. If there's anything worth debating or discussing regarding the subject, it might be where the lines are between homage, influenced by, and blatant jacking? And even that doesn't warrant a videotaped round table discussion full of so called woke people high off their own tea tree oil. Bunch of Joe Colleges sitting around a table discussing how Bruno Mars is "problematic." Then the idiots in the background validating them, "right!", "facts!", etc.. Retards are leading the retards. Can't make this stuff up.

When she raised her voice, "I'm talking now!!",

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

No. The problem is black people. Cause we're the ones that co-sign these non-black artists that are doing parodies of our music.

Until black people start supporting only black artists, you'll see non-black bodies being pushed forward doing black music.

We're dangerously close to a world where rap and RnB will become like Rock N Roll. An originally black artform with no more major black artists.

“We” don’t cosign anything. The prime (paying) consumers of hip hop and r&b are young white people. As it’s always been. Their dollars dictate popularity and the push certain artists get.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Agree with 100% of what she said but lol@her septum ring. Bet that whole room reeks of shea and African hem 7 scent incense

 

[El Bombi]

I wanna see somebpdy go after justin timberlake. Bruno Mars is too damn easy and timberlake is long overdue.

The same people on this forum that are defending Bruno Mars right now. Are the same people that goes after Justin Timberlake.

These nikkas can't consistent to save their lives.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

This is a good conversation because I see where both of you are coming from. If you're in close contact with other cultures, yeah, they will borrow your stuff and in theory, you will borrow theirs. That's just how human contact works.

On the other hand, appropriating from black people in America is a special case because of how egregiously non-black people have taken black forms of art that were forced outside of the mainstream by a racist society and then watered it down enough to make money off of it. Let's be real, Bruno Mars is just caffeine-free Diet James Brown, but I bet he makes more money than James Brown ever did off of this music.

From that perspective, this is exactly why I get where people like the woman in the OP are coming from. She has a name based on a Japanese word, but Japanese culture hasn't been raped and mined by non-Japanese people to the level that black American culture has by non-black people. It's just different.

Good points, but I can't blame Bruno for cashing those checks. We can call it appropriation, but it only works if non-blacks consume it. Other posters talked about us not supporting artists, but that's not really true. It's just that 13% of the population vs. 66% of the population is a wide gulf. Elvis is a prime example of this. His people saw that while black artists made great music, they couldn't crossover. Elvis needed a reasonable amount of talent for it to work. Joe the Plumber couldn't do it. Bruno is in the same lane. It's the blessing and a curse. We constantly create, but our continuous desire to create means others reap greater benefits from what we've made.

 

[8WON6]

I didn't realize this shyt was actually trending on twitter. I bet the whole topic has turned into people saying "there is no such thing as culture, blacks don't own anything"...tomorrow the same people will say "blacks have a culture of violence and thuggery" .

 

[ThiefyPoo]

Cacs got a foot in on Dancehall too, only a matter of time before K-Pop does the same.


Why cant they do their own shyt

Wai what ?

 

[Loose]

Where was all this energy for Adele and Sam Smith? Bruno apparently didn’t make the intersectionality cut

Black folks don't support them cacs , maybe one day you'll stop caping for all these crackers

 

[DoubleClutch]

Id been saying this for a while. Soon as I heard someone open their mouth to compare him to prince last spring


Is Bruno Mars Guilty of Cultural Appropriation?

But black people let it it slide.....until I guess he won a few Grammys

 

[George's Dilemma]

I didn't realize this shyt was actually trending on twitter. I bet the whole topic has turned into people saying "there is no such thing as culture, blacks don't own anything"...tomorrow the same people will say "blacks have a culture of violence and thuggery" .

https://www.google.com/search?q=bru...neDZAhXEqFkKHSF7AEwQ_AUICygC&biw=1344&bih=752

Crazy.

 

[King Jove]

the coli's daddy goin at a coli poster

@ how this will play out.

 

[El Bombi]

If you don’t get her point, then you won’t understand it till white/racially ambiguous people take over dancehall, reggae, and Afrobeats.

Black people stay getting hype and wanting to invite white/racially ambiguous people to the “cookout” for doing shyt black people BEEN doing.

Only reason y’all think his music is so great because it’s a literal imitation of the black artist he imitates. That’s it. It’s not better than the music he imitates, nor is it anything new. Nor does he make it his own or something fresh.

While I’m not sure if I agree with the term “appropriation” I do see it as SMUDGING. In the U.S, blacks have created damn near every genre, whites stole it, repackaged it with a white face, and sold it back to us with no respect or credit to the black artists it came from. Blacks have been wiped out of rock n Roll, sister Rosetta Tharpe still never gets her proper due. Y’all saw how white people acted a fool when Beyonce performed at the CMA’s a few years ago, never mind blacks created that and still listen to that in the South. We’ve seen this story over and over again. We’ve been wiped out of our culture then told we have no culture.

Is Bruno Mars music bad? No? Is he talented? Yes. Is he original? Hell naw. But black people caping for him so hard just cause y’all hype to see a non black person make black music smh.

Well this a good point for here in the Coli.

I see a lot of people saying the Coli is more CAC than they thought.

No, that's not the case.

The Coli is majority Blacks that are NON-DESCENDANTS OF AFRICAN IN THE UNITED STATES. I have notice a lot them(Not all), view African-Americans through the eyes of White Supremacists.

They feel like African-Americans are always complaining and bytching. Just like White Supremacists feel like African-Americans are always complaining and bytching.

Even tho they wouldn't be over here if it wasn't for African-Americans complaining and bytching during the Civil rights era.

That's why I always ask nikkas where did they Grandparents come from to get an ideal of their frame of thought.

 

[Loose]

the coli's daddy goin at a coli poster

@ how this will play out.

I assume tariq must have a business relationship or something near Bruno. Going against your own people for calling out culture appropriation is some sambo shyt