I would definitely say, they want and push artists who are more palpable for white consumption and white people are better at doing it. Judging by the past 60 years. Hell they used to take songs written and sung by black artists, and gave em to white artists.
Bruno Mars hammered for Cultural appropriation
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I would definitely say, they want and push artists who are more palpable for white consumption and white people are better at doing it. Judging by the past 60 years. Hell they used to take songs written and sung by black artists, and gave em to white artists.
Lord_Chief_Rocka
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Hip-hop's blatant co-sign of Bieber when he came out was disgusting
TrebleMan
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People still don't get it. Life is luck.
Let a legend like Pharrell, who said it best educate you in 45 seconds.
@23:30 (video is timestamped)
Song could be great to you, and still not hit. How many songs that sound sonically pleasing never broke top 40?
Similar to how you could do all the right things, make no errors and still end up on the losing end. That's not a weakness, it's just life.
The people choosing and all occurrences that got somebody to that point is what makes them a star.
It's like when hearing somebody say they or _____ was good enough to be in the NBA, but never was in the NBA. Nah, you either were good enough to make it into the league or you weren't.
With music it's different because it's less "objective", but still the same. If your songs were great enough to sell X-million records, they would have. It takes more than sounds to make a hit record.
Like when she says: "I don't think Michael Jackson now in this day and age will be able to get to the point that he got to previously..."
How does she know that?! She nor nobody else can prove that wrong nor right and it doesn't matter either. What was done was done, it's already in the record books.
It either happened, or it didn't. All that other stuff is talk.
Let a legend like Pharrell, who said it best educate you in 45 seconds.
@23:30 (video is timestamped)
Song could be great to you, and still not hit. How many songs that sound sonically pleasing never broke top 40?
Similar to how you could do all the right things, make no errors and still end up on the losing end. That's not a weakness, it's just life.
The people choosing and all occurrences that got somebody to that point is what makes them a star.
It's like when hearing somebody say they or _____ was good enough to be in the NBA, but never was in the NBA. Nah, you either were good enough to make it into the league or you weren't.
With music it's different because it's less "objective", but still the same. If your songs were great enough to sell X-million records, they would have. It takes more than sounds to make a hit record.
Like when she says: "I don't think Michael Jackson now in this day and age will be able to get to the point that he got to previously..."
How does she know that?! She nor nobody else can prove that wrong nor right and it doesn't matter either. What was done was done, it's already in the record books.
It either happened, or it didn't. All that other stuff is talk.
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DoubleClutch
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Yea but you get the point being made. The industry looks at the rock similar to how they look at Bruno
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
After watching the actual video the discussion was much more tug of war, lotta people didn't see it the same way.
The avg white Person probably thinks dude is black.
The anger here isn’t because Bruno Mars does black music, they’re angry because white people would rather listen to Bruno Mars than your average black R&B artist. Which again comes down to craving whiteacceptancesuccess/money.
Don’t take out your white acceptance mental illness on Bruno Mars.
Be thick headed brehs
It's not about craving white acceptance
It's about Bruno Mars being a culture vulture but, making 10x more than the nikkas he's stealing from
Dwayne is actually black mixed with samoan
I've been saying this for a good minute.
My kids love Bruno Mars and whenever I catch them vibing to his shyt, I constantly remind them that he's just recycling shyt that's already been done, and by way more talented artists.
It was cool at first with the Mark Ronson lil throwback joint.
But I've been getting more and more agitated with this nikka with each new song he releases.
He's pretty much recycling the entire scope of black R&B music and repackaging it for today's consumers.
First he was Sam Cooke, then he was Morris Day, now he's Bobby Brown.
That record he got out right now with Cardi B, ain't nothing but the Living Color intro music with Bobby Brown singing over it.
Same shyt.
He took Bobby's runs and all that.
He got that shyt down so cold, I have to remind myself that it's some Pacific Islander nikka singing and not Bobby.
I love the fukk outta that record though..
My kids love Bruno Mars and whenever I catch them vibing to his shyt, I constantly remind them that he's just recycling shyt that's already been done, and by way more talented artists.
It was cool at first with the Mark Ronson lil throwback joint.
But I've been getting more and more agitated with this nikka with each new song he releases.
He's pretty much recycling the entire scope of black R&B music and repackaging it for today's consumers.
First he was Sam Cooke, then he was Morris Day, now he's Bobby Brown.
That record he got out right now with Cardi B, ain't nothing but the Living Color intro music with Bobby Brown singing over it.
Same shyt.
He took Bobby's runs and all that.
He got that shyt down so cold, I have to remind myself that it's some Pacific Islander nikka singing and not Bobby.
I love the fukk outta that record though..
philmonroe
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Damn you sound like a bitter hoe fam. You shouldn't be teaching your kids that shyt esp if they dudes smfh.I've been saying this for a good minute.
My kids love Bruno Mars and whenever I catch them vibing to his shyt, I constantly remind them that he's just recycling shyt that's already been done, and by way more talented artists.
It was cool at first with the Mark Ronson lil throwback joint.
But I've been getting more and more agitated with this nikka with each new song he releases.
He's pretty much recycling the entire scope of black R&B music and repackaging it for today's consumers.
First he was Sam Cooke, then he was Morris Day, now he's Bobby Brown.
That record he got out right now with Cardi B, ain't nothing but the Living Color intro music with Bobby Brown singing over it.
Same shyt.
He took Bobby's runs and all that.
He got that shyt down so cold, I have to remind myself that it's some Pacific Islander nikka singing and not Bobby.
I love the fukk outta that record though..
Wear My Dawg's Hat
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Mariah Carey has three non-black grandparents, and one black grandparent with significant white admixture.
She was raised solely by her white Irish-American, opera-singing mother in an all-white section of Long Island.
When she debuted, she was referred to as "the white Whitney Houston"
How does she qualify as "half-black"? Her first husband, an Italian, was darker
(Addendum: She refused to take the celebrity DNA test on the George Lopez Show and won't appear on the Henry Louis Gates PBS series for fear of revealing her 90 percent European heritage).
Fact!
Wear My Dawg's Hat
Superstar
Teena Marie didn't catch heat in 1980 because we didn't care then who did the music, as long as it
was soulful or delivered the funk.
When her first single "I Need Your Loving'" came out, there was no video. She was only played on black radio
and we only heard what she sounded like.
Most people didn't know she was white until she appeared on Soul Train. For that generation it didn't matter.
Today, the iPhone/Samsung/Twitter/Zuckerberg-nurtured Woke Millennials would have a field day with her.
