Taylor Swift Accused of Cultural Appropriation For Using a Marching Band
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Beyonce is the real thief then. Yaasssss and so on and so forth.
The Root should have invented a #DemThrones hashtag for Taylor jokes.
I've always thought of marching bands as like, the whitest thing imaginable. Could be wrong. In any case this is too woke.
Yeah, those tweets are just people dragging her by comparing her performance to Beyoncé's. And The Root just fucking around.
...But that Nylon article looks 100% serious.
This was the first thing I thought of when I read the title. I didn't think it was that old but I guess not something most people think of.
I'd agree with comments thinking this is more of a Beyonce v. Swift thing rather than actual cultural appropriation.
also, this bullshit on social media does nothing but make things harder for POC trying to escape the alt-right fuckery going on lately. i guarantee they'll use this as ammo, probably make taylor swift into some goddess-hero meme, and maybe 3-4 months down the road we'll see van jones on CNN talking about how "is playing taylor swift music identifying with white supremacy?"
to those thinking this is far fetched, these are the same losers using this as ammo that are trying to hijack the "OK" sign and worshiping a cartoon frog
Yeah
This predates Bey’s performance by idk—13 years lol
As long as Era can have its own outrage thread about another perceived outrage...
This got me on the mood for Hollaback Girl and i'm loving it.
Anyway. Wish people would have the care not to make fun of "woke" and the associated vocabulary because they're contributing to the same kind of dismissive nature that interested parties will ensure becomes how most people see these words. These publications, whatever their understanding of what Taytay did, can obviously fall towards a kind of hubris that hurts their message, the kind that i don't think can be asked of any person to consistently avoid. Especially from publications whose safest texts are already victims of disbelief and accusations of craziness. One should be very wary of going at them at the same time white supremacists and otherwise conveniently opined "allies" trying for "common-sense" do.
Anyway. Wish people would have the care not to make fun of "woke" and the associated vocabulary because they're contributing to the same kind of dismissive nature that interested parties will ensure becomes how most people see these words. These publications, whatever their understanding of what Taytay did, can obviously fall towards a kind of hubris that hurts their message, the kind that i don't think can be asked of any person to consistently avoid. Especially from publications whose safest texts are already victims of disbelief and accusations of craziness. One should be very wary of going at them at the same time white supremacists and otherwise conveniently opined "allies" trying for "common-sense" do.
I was in one of the top 3 marching bands in my state, and we had a few minorities, but were mostly white and lower-middle class. Our biggest rival was a more wealthy school, but they were probably about 30 to 40 percent black (they were also consistently better than us, lol). It really depends of the makeup of the school.
black marching bands have a history dating back to the 1800's and that lineage is what gave birth to jazz
Oh yeah. Forgot this.
Salt and pepper maybe some garlic growing up.
I am trying fix their mistakes.
Come on now ! Everybody gets inspiration from everybody. Nothing to see here. That’s a non story.
Indeed, it always does far more harm than any ‘good’.
Tbh, some of these “woke” outrages are getting so outlandish that they’re beginning to sound like they’re coming from those sorts.
Half expecting people to decry mixed race relationships or something at some point in an attempt to be ‘Uber progressive’.
I can totally see this as stealing ideas from Beyonce... but how that turns into cultural appropriation or gentrification... Those words have meaning, and it really deludes it.
Call Swift out for stealing ideas, call her classless, etc etc. There are tons of REALLY GOOD WORDS to use for this behavior without destroying the meaning of other ones.
(edit) Looking at other things posted in the thread, it's probably just a coincidence? Either way, this was still really silly.
Call Swift out for stealing ideas, call her classless, etc etc. There are tons of REALLY GOOD WORDS to use for this behavior without destroying the meaning of other ones.
(edit) Looking at other things posted in the thread, it's probably just a coincidence? Either way, this was still really silly.
Wikipedia:
It's bizarro world if people are trying to claim ownership of such an old practice that itself evolved out of drummers marching with armies going back centuries.
Of course not.
Just pointing out how crazy it is to accuse someone of copying a Netflix film that hadn't even been aired at the time she would have filmed her music video.
Yes there are events where marching bands do battle. There are colleges where the marching bands are more famous then the sports teams.
this already happens. all the time. and it's disgusting. in fact, it never stopped from the old days.. you know back when America was "great"?
the "woke media" is driving us back to segregation, and those too rooted into social media to care about anything besides egging it on eat it up. everyone picks their side and we all play tug-o-war over... our society? it's sad.
Started long before that with military marching bands in the 1700s
Yes, during their performance called The Dance.
I want to say they also used it for Don't Stop, could be wrong.
Better be careful. I got a fucking FIVE DAY ban for making fun of pop era.
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