Her management tried to turn her into something she wasn’t and it backfired horribly.

I think it would be the opposite. Losing both the popular vote and the electoral college wouldn’t leave him with much of a mandate.

Imagine this scenario. You sign a 6 album contract thinking you’ll fulfill it in a dozen or so years. But you’ve unknowing signed to a person or company who plans to abuse it. Instead of letting you release an album every couple of years to let you finish your contract, they continually force you to release EP’s and…

My 11 year old is also a bookworm and has excellent writing skills. Kids who read a lot imitate the writing styles of authors, so their writing is very grown up.

There was a time when America was mostly white and black with a sprinkling of Asians and Hispanics. Having a lot of shows with main black characters was diverse at that time. It’s different now. Diversifying means including multiple groups.

Secularization of societies moderates religions. That’s why Christians and Jews in America and Western Europe are ignoring the many bad parts of their faiths. Muslims societies have little secularization and that’s why they’re still so extreme. Christian societies that don’t have secularization also violently mistreat…

No one is expecting utopia. Gun deaths in America are 10 to 20 times higher than they are in other developed nations. We could make this country a lot safer if there weren’t so many people burying their heads in the sand trying to pretend guns aren’t a problem.

I assume they will cover it. It’s already a major news story.

I didn’t even know depositions were done to get restraining orders.

That’s a terrible example. Many people dislike rap verses in songs in general. Michael Jackson didn’t sound black and had a ton of white fans. Black people have enjoyed enormous success in pop music. It’s dishonest to claim they didn’t.

Plenty of black artists get played on pop radio. People seem to be pretty ignorant about how radio works. If a song fits a format, it will get played. If not, it won’t. Drake is black but gets played on pop radio because his music fits the format. Hozier is white but makes blues music. Take Me to Church was a minor…

Iggy is signed to Def Jam which was co-founded by Russell Simmons. T.I. was her mentor. So it’s not like she stole from black people. Some black people had a role in her success and profited from it. T.I. probably profited more from her music than she did.

I don’t think it was the fault of any of the artists of the time and there was little they could do about it. But at least the point that black people helped to create something they couldn’t profit from had validity at the time. It doesn’t have validity today. Black artists have enjoyed enormous success in popular…

A lot of black artists don’t go pop because it’s seen as selling out. Rock bands usually don’t go pop for the same reason. They don’t want to be seen as sell outs.

Any word that ends in -ing applies. Dropping g’s is often done to make lyrics flow more smoothly. Lyrics will also usually flow more smoothly if gonna is used instead of going to.

I don’t think Tik Tok sounds black and vocally Kesha sounds white. I think a lot of people were thrown off by her name. But Kesha in this case is Russian rather than African in origin. Kesha is also an (Asian) Indian name.

Rock came from both race music (blues) and hillbilly music (country). Rock has both white and black origins. It wasn’t created by blacks. It was created by blacks and whites who inspired each other musically.

This is why cultural appropriation as an idea annoys me so much. First everyone is expected to know the origin of everything. And if it happens that people of their race or ethnicity didn’t create something, they’re not allowed to be inspired by it in any way even though it’s also part of their culture because they…

All popular music has both white and black influences. Black people didn’t create all the styles you mentioned out of the blue. America is an amalgamation of music from several cultures. It’s simplifying things a bit but it’s said that white music is melodic and black music is rhythmic. Popular music today is a…

Why assume that’s discrimination when Beyonce and Rihanna are two of the biggest names in pop music? I think the real problem is that black artists aren’t making R&B music that’s pop enough to make it to pop radio. Black artists making authentic R&B and rap aren’t making it onto pop radio for the same reason that…