Sensei Aishitemasu got into a heated discussion about Bruno Mars, in which she slammed him for cultural appropriation. Watch here,

I totally agree with this about Bruno Mars!

http://hollywoodlife.com/2018/03/09/bruno-mars-cultural-appropriation-sensei-aishitemasu-diss-video/

I'mma probably regret what I'm about to type, but I really think a ton of this SJ anger goes overboard. But, it really looks like it's okay if it's somebody (non-black) certain people wanna f (screw) make it to #1 on the charts using (black culture) music, wtf does that mean in today's sales anyway, but if it is somebody (non-black) other (quiet) people wanna f(screw) then it's appropriation. I mean if you have a cause then stand by it, but flipflopping based on the rise of your genitals is a moot point and you really make if so much harder for real issues to be taken seriously.

Chuck sums up my thoughts on this topic perfectly..

https://twitter.com/Chuck...8459925504

LOLOL. Hoteppers gon hotep I guess.

#fakewoke.

Charlie Wilson on Twitter......


https://twitter.com/ImCha...0998648832

I wonder was white people bitching and moaning when Prince released "Jack U Off" "Little Red Corvette" "Lets Pretend Were Married" "I'm Yours" "Horny Toad" or singing "Whole Lotta Shaking Going On" because yall scallywags are extra when it comes to Bruno. Gtfoh.

Its just like...can people just be influenced by something and make people appreciate it even more. We can def say that michael jackson was more famous than Fred Astaire...and it is yet to be known if Prince career will outshine Jimi hendrix or Elvis for example.
Let it go.

paisleypark4 said:

I'm no fan of Bruno Mars,but I think that those people are really mean-spirited there are plently of more important issues to get worked up about! Sheesh!

purple05 said:

paisleypark4 said:

I wonder was white people bitching and moaning when Prince released "Jack U Off" "Little Red Corvette" "Lets Pretend Were Married" "I'm Yours" "Horny Toad" or singing "Whole Lotta Shaking Going On" because yall scallywags are extra when it comes to Bruno. Gtfoh.

So rock Music was created by white oriole? Last I checked it wasn’t.

Not like rock is mainly performed by black people no matter how you look at it from the 1950's, let it go, its gone from 'us'...since rap took over. Thanks hip hop.

As well, lets not forget who wrote and produced Bruno Mars album:

These are the pople you should be mad at

Dumb conversation to be had when black people are writing all this shit. You think he Prince or something???

Oh man...one day will we stop thinking in terms of race and skincolor.

thetimefan said:

It's ironic Bruno has been picked up apart but they didn't bring up Robin Thicke, JT, Sam Smith, Adele etc. Nor was Bobby Caldwell, Joe Cocker, Teena Marie, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield to name a few. All these and more made soul/R&B records and Ive never heard anyone call out Joe and saying he was like copying or biting the style of other soul singers. I thought Bruno was accepted since hes not use any derogatory terms or slang in his music As an artist shouldn't he be free to mke any style of music. If someone is white they have to listen to just "white" music and not R&B, soul, hip hop etc. Music should be universal and colourless. I mean Prince blended many musical styles together so based of the argument he shouldnt have made Purple rain and stuck in the R&B lane. smh. The haters seem stuck on him taking the food of other artists plate so to speak. I call BS on this as when a song is good enough it crosses over and succeeds. Look at Kci and Jojos All my Life that was a huge hit. Had nothing to do with skin colour,they hit it out the park with the strength of the song. Any artist complaining need to up their game(s) up. Its just petty. Plus its not like Bruno is not working with black artists - Cardi B, Gucci Mane to name a few are on the remixes. Babyface wrote one of the songs on the album. It seems there's hate for no other reason than to hate on someone who's doing their thing and making a success of them self.

Very petty and extra. In part 2, they even mentioned that Chris Brown and Usher havent been doing shit but following trends and trying to rap instead of being diffrent. About damn time someone came out and danced.

I comes with receipts
Chris Browns lyrics and I quote:

nextedition said:

I'm eternally impressed by human beings' ability to find new and elaborate ways to make life harder than it needs to be. I can only put it down to the excess energy of youth.

Excuse me, do you have music for my skin tone?

thetimefan said:

nextedition said:

Oh man...one day will we stop thinking in terms of race and skincolor.

Exactly, I stated music should be universal and music should be colourless. Shouldnt matter what skin colour you are music should be for everybody and no one should be pigeonholed based on their skin tone. Good point pp4 too. Its very likely every artist will follow whats hot a d emulate it. If anything making a R&B album meant Bruno took a hit with record sales compared to his previous two records. For me its the album he personally wanted to make. Also making a retro R&B album has meant hes taken a hit with record sales so for me its Bruno paying homage. Outside of the NE biopic is 80s R&B a big trend?. Had Bruno started to rap and put out a trap album that would arguably be cultural appropriation then. Also I would assume white folks buying Bruno's album very likely already like R&B/soul music already so that argument is a moot point.

This is very true...upon research...24K is his lowest selling album to date so far at 3 million worldwide as his other two have reached 6 million copies sold actually. However this was the first time I actually ran to purchase one of his albums due to its content I heard.
You are also right on about Babyface:

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Wow, Prince never won an album of the year grammy? That's a damn shame! But I don't see the logic behind attacking Bruno for that. Like I said in another thread about the subject, I think we should focus on the industry and their lack of promotion when it comes to black artists/black music. You know what's funny tho? Eminem dropped his new album and the only songs they're playing here in germany is the one with Ed Sheeran and Beyonce on it. Or his songs that would pass as a mixture of pop and rap. They don't play his real Rap Jams, because, even if it's eminem, the music itself is too black. Or at least that's how it seems to me.

Bruno never showed disrespect to the genre or its creators, he aknowledged his influencers and even gave a shoutout to Baby Face, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis etc.

thetimefan said:

Bruno has spoke out about it now http://hollywoodlife.com/...tions/amp/ IMO he shouldn't have to defend himself. Um, isn't "sensei" appropriating Japanese culture ?!

That's what a lot of people on FB were talking about

paisleypark4 said:

thetimefan said:

It's ironic Bruno has been picked up apart but they didn't bring up Robin Thicke, JT, Sam Smith, Adele etc. Nor was Bobby Caldwell, Joe Cocker, Teena Marie, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield to name a few. All these and more made soul/R&B records and Ive never heard anyone call out Joe and saying he was like copying or biting the style of other soul singers. I thought Bruno was accepted since hes not use any derogatory terms or slang in his music As an artist shouldn't he be free to mke any style of music. If someone is white they have to listen to just "white" music and not R&B, soul, hip hop etc. Music should be universal and colourless. I mean Prince blended many musical styles together so based of the argument he shouldnt have made Purple rain and stuck in the R&B lane. smh. The haters seem stuck on him taking the food of other artists plate so to speak. I call BS on this as when a song is good enough it crosses over and succeeds. Look at Kci and Jojos All my Life that was a huge hit. Had nothing to do with skin colour,they hit it out the park with the strength of the song. Any artist complaining need to up their game(s) up. Its just petty. Plus its not like Bruno is not working with black artists - Cardi B, Gucci Mane to name a few are on the remixes. Babyface wrote one of the songs on the album. It seems there's hate for no other reason than to hate on someone who's doing their thing and making a success of them self.

Very petty and extra. In part 2, they even mentioned that Chris Brown and Usher havent been doing shit but following trends and trying to rap instead of being diffrent. About damn time someone came out and danced.

I comes with receipts
Chris Browns lyrics and I quote:

Just got rich
Took a broke nigga bitch
I can make a broke bitch rich
But I don’t fuck with broke bitches

Got a white girl with some fake titties
I took her to the bay with me
Eyes closed smoking marijuana
Rolling up that Bob Marley, I’m a rasta
She wanna do drugs, smoke weed, get drunk
She wanna see a nigga trapped
She wanna fuck all the rappers

But yall mad at Bruno tho?

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ChocolateBox3121 said:

Chris is black! Your point is useless.

I think part of PP's point is you don't care about people glorifying complete trash but you care that someone doesn't have enough melanin in their skin for you to be ok with them making music with their 95% black band and producers. I don't think it's PP whose point is useless here.

lezama said:

ChocolateBox3121 said:

Chris is black! Your point is useless.

I think part of PP's point is you don't care about people glorifying complete trash but you care that someone doesn't have enough melanin in their skin for you to be ok with them making music with their 95% black band and producers. I don't think it's PP whose point is useless here.

Gotcha!!

and this is why all these current age performers, white, black, hispanic, whoever it is and whatever their nationality, they need to learn how to orchestrate their own music and develop their own style, it would make for a better artist and a better music industry all round....

there wouldn't be these types of criticisms....

it would be more rewarding also knowing you've created something authentic....

rather than taking the lesser road already travelled......

the real question should be can anybody of today when they come of age make their own music....

there's one thing to be influenced by someone, but when it comes down to it, when the smoke clears, can they make their own music......

let's say sampling and interpolating would no longer be allowed...

THEN WHAT?....everyone is closing shop at that point

wo

they call out the past as OLD SCHOOL but continuously rely on it behind the scenes to help shape their sound or to draw interest......

it's a contradiction for the ages

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In the context of the United States, if white America wasn't so devilish in denigrating Black American
culture on one hand but taking our art and making an attempt to incorporate it into its own convent-
ions on the other, then obviously Black Americans wouldn't have to scan our US culture for instances
of cultural appropriation.

That being said, I don't think Mars is guilty of anything that Justin Timberlake isn't and that's being
genuinely fascinated with our culture and appealing to it often for we certainly form the vanguard for
what is "cool."