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PrintableIf you truly love music, I don't see how ethnicity could matter. Music doesn't have a color. Words blur those lines, which goes to say that just because I'm Black doesn't mean I agree with or relate to everything that comes out of a Black artists' mouth. There's a lot of shit my people say that I can't even begin to relate to. Like Chuck D said, "Every brotha' ain't a brotha'..." | |
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PFunkjazz said: NDRU said: Understandable, but a tough call since Appetite is such a great album. I guess I enter into it knowing that Guns & Roses aren't all there emotionally, ethically, or morally. I don't expect artists to be perfect people, and as long as they're not actually hurting people or advocating it I allow them a couple moronic points of view. In my case when I heard those GnR tunes I'd crank 'em up, but I had no plans to see them perform live until I saw Slash onstage. Seeing them live, you worried that the stage might literally explode from the energy. My Legacy
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PFunkjazz said: theAudience said: ...about ethnicity as it relates to music?
Because I don't like giving my money to white people. lol!  | |
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The ethnicity of the players doesn't matter in terms of liking something. However, if a song touches me and I don't know the artist I'll react differently according to who the artist is.
If they look like me then I may get more out of their music because I feel like we have a bond from common experience. If they're a gender or ethnicity different from mine, I still feel great music, but I may not be as emotionally attached. -Silk | |
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Ethnicity doesn't mean anything to me when I buy music. If it sounds good, I'm going to listen to it. If I like it a lot I'm going to buy the CD, no matter who it is. I just want to hear good music. Simple as that. [Edited 8/2/06 20:58pm] I'm not a fan of "old Prince". I'm not a fan of "new Prince". I'm just a fan of Prince. Simple as that | |
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I've never cared about an artists ethnicity or race or whatever. If the music is good then I'll keep listening. The only problem I've had is that, I'm only 20 and I grew with this pigeon-holing that says artists of a certain race have to create and listen to certain kinds of music. I was born right around the time that this issue started to take a strong hold in the industry and I've always felt like I had to listen to black music only or at least mostly, or I'd be labeled as trying to act white (  ). I usually ended up caving in because I was usually the only one of my black friends who was listening to different things and it just felt really lonely. I've always liked sharing my appreciation of music with my friends, and I didn't (and still don't) always have the oppurtunity to do that, because I didn't know anyone who liked the things I liked and I didn't always have the forum to find those ppl. Of course as I've gotten older, that has changed, but not by as much one would think it should. It's a shame really.I graduated bitches!!! 12-19-09   | |
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PurpleRighteous1 said: I've never cared about an artists ethnicity or race or whatever. If the music is good then I'll keep listening. The only problem I've had is that, I'm only 20 and I grew with this pigeon-holing that says artists of a certain race have to create and listen to certain kinds of music. I was born right around the time that this issue started to take a strong hold in the industry and I've always felt like I had to listen to black music only or at least mostly, or I'd be labeled as trying to act white (
). I usually ended up caving in because I was usually the only one of my black friends who was listening to different things and it just felt really lonely. I've always liked sharing my appreciation of music with my friends, and I didn't (and still don't) always have the oppurtunity to do that, because I didn't know anyone who liked the things I liked and I didn't always have the forum to find those ppl. Of course as I've gotten older, that has changed, but not by as much one would think it should. It's a shame really.When you're younger you worry that you're not cool because you like different stuff than you're "supposed to," and as you get older you realize that this is part of what makes you cool. My Legacy
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