I think the appropriation discourse completes misses how much these white artists did for making black culture acceptable in the white-dominated mainstream and bringing people of different races together. It would have been great if the black music that their music was based on got more commercial success, but lets not pretend that would just have happened organically in the 50s-70s if there had been no popular white artists in those genres. And it’s not like black artists didn’t also profit from the newfound popularity of black genres.
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Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Nirvana and The Beatles are super over rated and are only well known because they sold out/were promoted at the right place time so that record industry fat cats could use them to cash in on counter cultures.
Also Elvis/Led Zeppelin/Eminem stole music from black people and made money by making it ok for rich white kids to listen to.
Also, Drake is a pussy ass wannabe rich kid from the suburbs.
Sometimes it’s painful to be this brave, but the truth must be shared. /S
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BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
zeppelin stole from spirit as well, but spirit didnt really care that much (the riff for stairway to heaven is directly stolen from a spirit song)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
drake is canadian? i think a thing was going around the internet he was grooming millie brown i think when she was younger.
VAK@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The beetlemania was a bit much but the beetles did pioneer new music, just look at their white album
KneeTitts@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nirvana and The Beatles are super over rated and are only well known because they sold out/were promoted
Well… there it something to be said for breaking new ground or being innovative in your field, both of those bands were are the forefront of massive pop music waves. It never hurts to be first at sometime.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The Beatles were the first (or among the first, at least) to heavily utilize multitrack recording and overdubbing. Nirvana wasn’t first at anything.
bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 2 days ago
No argument about the motives of record companies but Elvis was criticized by white people partly because, unlike most swing and country musicians, he openly praised his Black heroes and mentors. He was hated for bringing Black music to White kids. A for Nirvana, it was just the right sound+message+image at the right time.
Now, Zeppelin… I got nothing. I just want to continue loving Zeppelin.