Taylor Swift Accused of Cultural Appropriation For Using a Marching Band
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Lol, at saying he. Well, "he's" only sold over a hundred million records. Maybe with a little effort from them people will start remembering their babe.
Beyonce even sampled Steve Nick's during the destiny's child days. Stevie was in the video too.
I never thought about it before, but yea I would be all down for prohibiting topics on the premise of tweets from Black Twitter. Since you really do get the worst type of people who will claim people are being too woke. I would argue that most black people on this forum understand the framing of the critiques Taylor Swift is getting. But having non-black people show their ass is exhausting. I would imagine if the community thread voted, we could perhaps have stricter rules on threads made on tweets of Black Twitter.
When you're so woke you're actually asleep
Fucking morons, isn't there enough real shit to be worried about than being mad that someone used a marching band in their music?
What do people think of Texas A&M's marching band that has been around for decades? Lots of white people in that band.
Fucking morons, isn't there enough real shit to be worried about than being mad that someone used a marching band in their music?
What do people think of Texas A&M's marching band that has been around for decades? Lots of white people in that band.
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This isn't a thread made solely about tweets on Black Twitter - there are articles and hit pieces written on the matter, otherwise it wouldn't have been threaded.
The articles and hit pieces often cite tweets. Tweets from Black Twitter.
And Beyonce stole from Fleetwood Mac who stole from probably someone else. originality In the arts and sciences is a myth
People always eager to go in on "oh it's just bitch eating crackers mode" when a billionaire gets criticized for exploiting his workers but a handful of black randos on Twitter make some cracks and everyone's acting like they blew up the fuckin' Lincoln Memorial or some shit
TSwift is like, whatever, but you still get plenty of racist white folks all over the internet acting like Beyonce is the death of music and not the single most innovating artist in the pop sphere currently working, and, like, that's where copying parts of her style without giving credit is a huge fuckin' issue
TSwift is like, whatever, but you still get plenty of racist white folks all over the internet acting like Beyonce is the death of music and not the single most innovating artist in the pop sphere currently working, and, like, that's where copying parts of her style without giving credit is a huge fuckin' issue
The Nylon article seems to take the topic pretty seriously. I guess the OP could have structured the OP better, separating the Twitter jokes from the article, but would you think the article itself shouldn't be discussed outside of Black Twitter?
Here's my question - are marching bands owned by black culture? Because I honestly don't know shit about marching bands.
The Breakfast Club (Charlamagne) is trying to "add" to this stereotype because of the CDC's tweet this week advising people not to wash chicken/meat before cooking.
"Hit pieces" based on (Black) Twitter comments.
I mean I doubt anyone is taking this all that seriously. Posting in a topic about it on a forum doesn't really show a ton of emotional investment
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Okay, but the critique by NYLON is pretty detached from it and the Breakfast Club snippet goes a lot deeper than just twitter.
Nope. You have people posting about how too woke (TM) people are. When in reality once you cut through the noise the majority of people discussing the topic are having a laugh.
Then the OP should only have the NYLON article included and not the majority of the OP being content from digital creators of Black Twitter.
You seriously think Taylor is copying Beyonce by having a marching band?
Twitter users are digital creators now? I liken most twitter users (myself included) as shitposters.
Yeah, most people are kidding. Some of the articles certainly don't come across that way, talking about how it is actually a huge issue. Even though the articles are sourcing jokey tweets, they editorialize it into seeming like people truly take have an issue with it. Like several people in this thread apparently do.
That's how these threads always go. A majority of these tweets are very obvious jokes, not sure how people are missing that.
I know why but still
unless you're cutting out everyone who's too young to qualify for social security they ain't wrong. pretty sure the kids aren't exactly flocking to grab copies of Rumors
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I feel obligated to give people the full context, including the reason why the NYLON piece was written in the first place.
I don't think stifling discussion on cultural matters like this is going to do any good as long as people aren't being antagonistic. If they are, punish them individually.
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Please read the full OP and the links I posted where Swift is called out for Cultural Appropriation + being a colonialist apparently.
I mean, a little? Not, like, so much that I'm gonna go out here and write some thousand word essay trying to pull a Kanye, but I'm not gonna blame someone watching that gossiping about how it's like what Beyonce did but not as good. This isn't a hill I'm dying on and, like, I don't think most of the people poking fun at her are either.
"Fleetwood Mac? Ain't that the band Greta Van Fleet is ripping off?"
Did Isaac Newton appropriate mathematics by using Hindu-Arabic numerals in his work on The Principia?
some of you have this weird understanding of culture as if its this tangible thing that is isolated from each other. As if its a physical thing that is owned by a certain "arbitrary, ambiguous" group
some of you have this weird understanding of culture as if its this tangible thing that is isolated from each other. As if its a physical thing that is owned by a certain "arbitrary, ambiguous" group
Take a few minutes and look at the video a user posted a page back. No one is implying marching bands as a whole but there is a distinct difference in a marching band and what Beyoncé performed with. If you can see the difference I don’t know what to say
And nobody is saying black people own marching bands. They’re saying that Swift is clearly riding a wave by a very popular performance from a year ago that was inherently rooted in blackness.
“But people have used marching band performances before”
One mega pop star copying performance aesthetics from another mega pop star’s performance from a year ago is the point. The extra layer of the specific kind of marching band performance that swift tried to copy is what is prompted the issue.
“But people have used marching band performances before”
One mega pop star copying performance aesthetics from another mega pop star’s performance from a year ago is the point. The extra layer of the specific kind of marching band performance that swift tried to copy is what is prompted the issue.
You should edit your OP and only include the NYLON article. Your spun the entire topic and included content that was made to simply clown Taylor Swift for appearing in an act with a marching band soon after Beyonce and not to discuss cultural appropriate of marching bands.
I hope this era of overreacting to absolutely everything will fade at some point. Like, you may think it’s lame that Taylor Swift did her own version of Beyoncé’s Coachella performance or whatever, but another person can view it as a homage to it. Not everything has to be considered from a very cynical, distrusting perspective. And it doesn’t make you look any cooler when you’re trying to be woke by making fun of a white person’s lack of coordination when they are doing a similar performance to a famous minorities performance in the middle of claiming cultural appropriation.
Like, shit has just gone too far. Everyday it seems like more people want only people who are of a specific culture to be able to enjoy or display or perform or wear things from that specific culture and it becomes a modern day version of segregation that I find wholly offensive.
T-Swizzle has nothing on Queen B though.
Like, shit has just gone too far. Everyday it seems like more people want only people who are of a specific culture to be able to enjoy or display or perform or wear things from that specific culture and it becomes a modern day version of segregation that I find wholly offensive.
T-Swizzle has nothing on Queen B though.
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