The way black artists getting recognition upsets you all and is supposedly due to propaganda
end year lists are always filled with white artists. None of you batted an eye when Bjoke, Grimes, Courtney and Josh MIsty were topping almost every list last year
Okay but compare albums like these:
Kanye West - The Life of Pable
Drake - Views
Beyonce - Lemonade
No one is pointing out that a lot of black artists are getting recognition, they are pointing out that mediocre works like Views are making year-end lists.
No one is pointing out that a lot of black artists are getting recognition, they are pointing out that mediocre works like Views are making year-end lists.
Views isn't getting that many mentions in the YEL though. And while I agree that Lemonade is overrated as **** (and so would any non-delusional person), the difference isn't really "stark". Currents is has some filler. Vulnicura is amazing but Bjork is better than everybody so that's not really fair. The issue isn't "Black Lives Matter privilege" or whatever. Freetown Sound was a very political album and it deserved to top all these lists instead of Lemonade. The problem is just herd mentality, whether it be with black or white artists. Radiohead and Bowie don't deserve to be up there more than Beyonce and Kanye.
Not necessarily, Matthew and Beyoncé just had different mentalities, one was singles driven (which produced her worst albums to date: DiL & IASF) while the other is album driven.
No one is pointing out that a lot of black artists are getting recognition, they are pointing out that mediocre works like Views are making year-end lists.
You may want to re-evalute. Views is like #31 overall for this year.
Kanye has always been overrated (though not without reason). Right now, he's riding the (last) waves of the genius of his previous works. And Lemonade is the best album of the year, so there's no issue there.
Beyonce doesn't have an album driven mentality. That's all for show.
Even Rihanna refused to rerelease Loud because she said it was too good as a body of work. Beyonce rereleased ST with a bad Rihanna impersonation single and a ****** SOTS remix. She is a fraudulent vulgarity.
All told, Fifth Harmony has sold 424,000 albums in the U.S. to date, according to NielsenMusic.
ALBUMS
Oct 18, 2013 Better Together
Nov 8, 2013 Juntos
Nov 8, 2013 Juntos - Acoustic
Nov 15, 2013 Better Together - Acoustic
Nov 25, 2013 Better Together - The Remixes
Jan 30, 2015 Reflection
May 27, 2016 7/27
No one is pointing out that a lot of black artists are getting recognition, they are pointing out that mediocre works like Views are making year-end lists.
Veiws is not acclaimed and it is only making very few lists, mostly the ones that do not hold much credibility.
Lemonade and TLOP are pretty good albums. It is a matter of opinion and many critics clearly find these albums to be good so why is everyone here implying that every time an album made by a black artist is acclaimed due to propaganda?
You guys just can not wrap your heads around the fact that black artists can make better or just as good music as the white artists you put in a pedestal.
