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Poll: Are Black Artists Making The Best Music This Generation?
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View Poll Results: Are Blacks Making The Best Music This Generation?
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Yes
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Originally posted by BrittRihanna134
Clearly. That's why whites get all the acclaim when they copy blacks see: Sam Smith, Adele, etc.
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Nah, that's called privilege.
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There are so many amazingly talented black artists that ATRL doesn't know or give credit to. From Beyonce to Rihanna maybe you'll credit them, but you'll still put them next to or under a Taylor Swift, Britney Spears or Katy Perry... and maybe you'll applaud a FKA Twigs or Janelle Monae but you'll have Grimes or Kimbra in your sig.
Black artists have always and will forever be the most impactful beings in music and much of art culture.
ATRL showing its true colors though. If you don't think black artists are good in this current generation like many of you are claiming, check out black art blogs like AFROPUNK and Obsidian please. Let's educate ourselves before speaking.
And I'm quite aware that there are many amazingly talented artists of other racial backgrounds, but the evidence that black art is more influential than any other even as the generations continue rolling is too obvious.
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Originally posted by DIVO DIVINE
There are so many amazingly talented black artists that ATRL doesn't know or give credit to. From Beyonce to Rihanna maybe you'll credit them, but you'll still put them next to or under a Taylor Swift, Britney Spears or Katy Perry... and maybe you'll applaud a FKA Twigs or Janelle Monae but you'll have Grimes or Kimbra in your sig.
Black artists have always and will forever be the most impactful beings in music and much of art culture.
ATRL showing its true colors though. If you don't think black artists are good in this current generation like many of you are claiming, check out black art blogs like AFROPUNK and Obsidian please. Let's educate ourselves before speaking.
And I'm quite aware that there are many amazingly talented artists of other racial backgrounds, but the evidence that black art is more influential than any other even as the generations continue rolling is too obvious.
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So you're suggesting that ATRL and the GP in general don't know much about what you consider true black artists but then go on to say those artists are having a huge influence/impact? Kewt contradiction and self-scalping. 
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Black artists have always made the best music every generation since 19th century.
And although we obviously don't receive credit for it, Black culture pretty much has shaped popular culture and music for decades now. Even the most popular white artists today have taken their influences from Black music genres and artists.
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Originally posted by Pristine
So you're suggesting that ATRL and the GP in general don't know much about what you consider true black artists but then go on to say those artists are having a huge influence/impact? Kewt contradiction and self-scalping. |
He was referring to impact on music, which is true. Black artists and music has shaped the musical climate, whether they're in the forefront or behind the scenes. A lot of your major white artist, Madonna for example, has borrowed heavily from black music and art. It's not a contradiction. Just a valid point in which some refuse to acknowledge.
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black art was always better than it's white copycat
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Originally posted by AHemsworth
He was referring to impact on music, which is true. Black artists and music has shaped the musical climate, whether they're in the forefront or behind the scenes. A lot of your major white artist, Madonna for example, has borrowed heavily from black music and art. It's not a contradiction. Just a valid point in which some refuse to acknowledge.
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bloop. 
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Originally posted by marajxgrant
black art was always better than it's white copycat
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Wouldnt that include all the kpop people you stan who apprpriate black culture?
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Originally posted by TheLuckyOnes
Wouldnt that include all the kpop people you stan who apprpriate black culture?
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sure.
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Black artists have always made the best music tbh. From
James Brown
Aretha Franklin
Whitney Houston
Michael Jackson
Marvin Gaye
Diana Ross
Donna Summer
etc
there's SO MANY. It's just the truth 
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Black people rule  I already knew this
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Originally posted by Rei
You provided receipts about black artists having high metacritic scores which is about quality and has nothing to do with having the best music.
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THAT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE.
Quality = the best. That's what QUALITY MEANS.
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oh kids, music is much more complex than " black people invented this, black people invented that...."
even all the greatest jazz musicans from John Coltrane, Monk, Duke Ellington to Hancock had to learn the harmonic theory from classical music of white people.
Miles Davis borrowed the modes from western music scales to create his most signature album " kind of blue "
jazz harmonies first appeared in the work of romantic and impressionistic composers. And those composers built all of their music (as does jazz) on the twelve-key system invented by famous Baroque composer J.S. Bach. What about musical formation , You can find quartets and quintets in both classic and jazz music
there would be something called Ragtime without the march of John Philip Sousa ? i doubt it.
Linn Electronics LM-1 Drum Computer, Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer, Roland D-50 ect ect and other electronic musical instruments that being used by Prince, Stevie wonder, Herbie Hancock to make their signature sound are made by whites and Japaneses
the first DJs were whites, not DJ Kool Herc. Looping technque is the most important musical aspect in modern music era, it's widely used in every music genres nowdays, especially hiphop and that technique is popularized by white electronc musicans such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Schaeffer.
the spacy soundscape in the production of today black artists such as Fka Twigs, Drake, Frank Ocean, the weeknd is inspired by ambient music and it's created by whites
i can go on and on
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Originally posted by Nhật Thực
oh kids, music is much more complex than " black people invented this, black people invented that...."
even all the greatest jazz musicans from John Coltrane, Monk, Duke Ellington to Hancock had to learn the harmonic theory from classical music of white people.
Miles Davis borrowed the modes from western music scales to create his most signature album " kind of blue "
jazz harmonies first appeared in the work of romantic and impressionistic composers. And those composers built all of their music (as does jazz) on the twelve-key system invented by famous Baroque composer J.S. Bach. What about musical formation , You can find quartets and quintets in both classic and jazz music
there would be something called Ragtime without the march of John Philip Sousa ? i doubt it.
Linn Electronics LM-1 Drum Computer, Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer, Roland D-50 ect ect and other electronic musical instruments that being used by Prince, Stevie wonder, Herbie Hancock to make their signature sound are made by whites and Japaneses
the first DJs were whites, not DJ Kool Herc. Looping technque is the most important musical aspect in modern music era, it's widely used in every music genres nowdays, especially hiphop and that technique is popularized by white electronc musicans such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Schaeffer.
the spacy soundscape in the production of today black artists such as Fka Twigs, Drake, Frank Ocean, the weeknd is inspired by ambient music and it's created by whites
i can go on and on
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Ugh why was this thread even made? Idc what color an artist's skin is as long as I like their music.
Also, what makes a person of another skin color's music a rip-off or copy or "appropriation" of black music? If that artist grew up listening to black artists and were inspired by them (e.g. Xtina, JoJo) what makes it less genuine than a black musician who was also influenced? Why does skin color even ****ing matter at all? This world is ****ing messed up. 
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In terms of mainstream music? Yes.
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