{"id":2544,"date":"2018-03-10T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2018-03-10T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T19:29:00","slug":"on-that-music-and-mars-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2018\/03\/on-that-music-and-mars-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"On that music and Mars thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Grapevine<\/a>. IS BRUNO MARS A CULTURAL APPROPRIATOR? <\/p>\n

I mean, yeah. He\u2019s one of the best-selling artist of all times already. It\u2019s not just that he\u2019s known. He\u2019s making mad money and started by impersonating Elvis, the dude who stole black people\u2019s moves and music. Patterns.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how music business works. Music sells primarily to white people, in a much bigger volume to white people. Since about the 40s so it\u2019s been a while.<\/p>\n

For this reason, artists need to cater to that market. And there\u2019s nothing better to cater than to look alike, especially since videos are how the word spreads out (and the reason why I don\u2019t like them: music is about listening, fuck watching).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no coincidence if Rihanna and Beyonc\u00e9 are not dark skin women. That Drake is very white. The Wknd. That Bruno is even whiter. There is an absurd amount of talented black artists who were\/are too black for TV. It all started to really hurts with the rise of MTV almost 40 years ago.<\/p>\n

So many originators of black music \u2013that is being used in various ways in ALL pop music- have never been heard or seen. I dig them online, listen to their music, find their pictures and love them. Music will always be more important than faces.<\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s the core argument: most black artists were making their own shit, creating their lanes. Trying things out. On the last Prince\u2019s album he toys with house music and dubstep, but it\u2019s still a Prince song with his guitar licks and ways of arranging horns and keyboards. MJ\u2019s Bad album is fucking unique in so many ways. You can recognize a GAP Band groove from miles away.<\/p>\n

Bruno copy\/paste shit and says shout out to the OGs. It\u2019s a different vibe. But yeah the song 24 Magic slaps and it\u2019s annoying. It itches.<\/p>\n

The worst part is that this entire appropriation phenomenon makes black people hate their black skin when their black skin is perfectly fine. Black skin is a symbol of creating timeless music genres and songs. Be proud of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grapevine. IS BRUNO MARS A CULTURAL APPROPRIATOR? I mean, yeah. He\u2019s one of the best-selling artist of all times already. It\u2019s not just that he\u2019s known. He\u2019s making mad money and started by impersonating Elvis, the dude who stole black people\u2019s moves and music. Patterns. That\u2019s how music business works. Music sells primarily to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}