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Dude. It’s not racist to not know the lyrics to a song. It is pretty racist to hear a woman of color singing something other than “proper English” and assuming it’s not even language.
Youtube has captions, and they are accurate for the song.
Yeah we are definitely in “least worst” territory here. Least Worst may be the official slogan of 2016, actually.
I don’t read her as blaming the young woman, but I do read her as suggesting that the young woman is still with the man because she has a problem, not the dude. Not “you’ve likely been groomed for years, run away NOW,” but “well once you solve your sex addiction, you’ll be able to stop being taken advantage of.”
There’s a difference between “I don’t know wft she’s saying,” and “I don’t understand those words so they must not be real.”
It’s not inherently racist to not recognize patois, unless you’re a writer who gets paid to write about pop culture. We live in the world where people walk around with tiny computers in their pockets. You can only claim ignorance of something for so long before you’re just willfully ignorant and plenty of people are…
When you hear people from another country that speaks English but with a very different accent or even dialect than your own—certain parts of England, Ireland, etc.—are you not aware that even though they are hard to understand, they are still speaking English? Have you really never heard West Indian people speak in…
My dad’s Jamaican, and many visits to the island when I was younger when I couldn’t make out what people were saying to me, “I don’t know what you said. Can you repeat that.” And they would laugh it off (and at me) and repeat what they said with less slang or slower.
no one is arguing you need to know what she’s saying, just that it’s ridiculous to write articles about how she’s not saying anything at all. even if you don’t know Patois, one second of research could tell you she’s mumbling.
You don’t have to know what she’s saying to know she’s not speaking gibberish. Any music writer who’s being published in a major magazine or online platform oughta know better. Rihanna has sung in patois before.
Fiyah fi di bombclatt babylon pickney dem who cyant understand Rihanna.
Ja, visst är det konstigt? Helt otroligt faktiskt. Nästan så att det är som ett annat språk än det du brukar tala. Orättvist!
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When Rihanna first dropped the song “Work,” you probably saw approximately one thousand tweets by people who thought…
Right up there with; “when is the straight pride parade?”
Right. Because every mother’s son hasn’t been told that for 200+ years. They may have forgotten?
If it’s sexist to vote for Hillary because she’s a woman, is it also demonist to vote for Trump because he’s literally Satan’s bunghole?
I really want to go around and tell people to be grumpy, for shits and giggles, just so they can see how unawesome it is to be told how you are supposed to feel and look.