orange grove- racist, sectarian
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok actually this was based off a bill Clinton quote
I bet this chick is still kinda racist, but my apologies
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Clinton can't be racist because he was the first black president.
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
^racist?
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/led-zepplin-front-man-spooked-black-music
Led Zepplin Front Man 'Spooked' by Black MusicBy nsenga.burtonCreated 09/22/2010 - 18:30
Robert Plant refers to black music as "spook music."
Fresh from the "We can't make this up file," Led Zepplin front man Robert Plant said that "spook music" is one of his favorite genres of music. When did he do this? On a recent appearance on The Today Show. While promoting his new album Band of Joy, Plant opened up about his influences. "[British people] didn't really have the musical knowledge as you guys have [in America]," said Plant. "So we tapped as much American 'spook music' as we could -- as much blues -- mixed it up and nobody liked it. But the feeling of freedom was fantastic." Take the needle off the record. The man whose work is clearly an appropriation of black culture, doesn't know that "spook music," is a derogatory term for black music? Wow. We won't mention the time period of when Led Zepplin ruled the airwaves. He should appropriate some more black culture and call himself "The Great Pretender," because that is what he appears to be.
― *makes 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand* (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^sounds highly unlikely, show me the clip
― do you feel me? somebody, feel me (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5GHOkCCgY&feature=player_embedded#
― *makes 'drinky-drinky' motion with hand* (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
massive facepalm
― bang (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
wth
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he just doesn't know, thinks its akin to ~spooky~......it's not a racial epithet in england
don't rly care either way but just saying
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ "thinks its akin to spooky" uh no he doesn't
― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
think he was probably trying to make some point abt how the music was held in low esteem by whites who weren't him & jon bonham. like there's a bit of time travel going on. he might have said "race music".
― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
classic interview response
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
in his defence, he didn't say spook music was his favorite genre. that actually is from the department of making it up.
― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
um that quote is not in the clip
― do you feel me? somebody, feel me (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
so again, show me the evidence or I'm gonna continue believing this is some kind of misquote/misinterpretation cuz I really have a hard time believing Page would knowingly and casually use a racial epithet
― do you feel me? somebody, feel me (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
it's at 1:03 in the youtube
― zvookster, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.spookmusic.com/
― buzza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Robert is a little older and a little more cosmopolitan than I am, I'm sure, but I am Britishes and have never heard the term 'spook music'.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I have never heard the phrase "spook music" in my life.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I have nfi what it even means.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"The music of spook - a unique mix of relaxed grooves, mystic spheres and a deep positive feeling of life. Oh yeah, racism too."
― buzza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah having seen the video it's pretty clearly not a word-choice error
still, i guess he is talking historically and he is invoking some tired archetype while unaware that spook is simply a pejorative
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
doesn't ~look~ like he's trolling
ah I see it now - sorry
fuck I dunno what the hell he was thinking. bizarre.
― do you feel me? somebody, feel me (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
we should have listened to Bill Magill :(
― goole, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
otoh yeah I have never heard the term "spook music" before in my life. "spook" okay yeah that's an archaic racial epithet but... wtf it's a total facepalm/headscratch moment.
I imagine a public apology will be forthcoming shortly lol
― do you feel me? somebody, feel me (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i was hoping he'd throw ~air tildes~ around it like "we played ~spook music~" as if to suggest that's what ~they~ called it
but no
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Spook music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4uxIo4t7xM
― a seminar on ass play for kids or something (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Spock music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B4lsvrzfZI
Sparks music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBtj2ShktAU
wow u put in some work on this one man
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
just keepin it positive
― a seminar on ass play for kids or something (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i mean at least link to ghostbox or s/thing for yr spook music
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think "that's what THEY called it" is going to be an effective strategy when using racially loaded terminology
― bang (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
right right, i was just imagining scenarios where this could be something other than an outright fuckup, but no, it's a fuckup
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
How has he been playing music for 40 years and no one told him that's offensive!
― ^^^that's lightweight jammin (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Robert Plant issues apologyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esZ15n6_5JY
― buzza, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he doesn't throw it around all the time? xp
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
is he a known racist?
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
*logs on to nme.com*
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
hey everybody just real quick i'ma c'mon son.jpg myself xp
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
trouble before was if you wanted to say lz were racist, you'd either need to play up the tired ~appropriation~ thing, or the volkisch immigrant song angry white ppl stuff....and the two stories didn't quite fit, but this helps to link the threads
― E-Mil Cioran (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
This is totally racist, but what the fuck is wrong with Australia/New Zealand? Like first the blackface gong show and now this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/11/paul-henry-resigns-new-ze_n_757797.html
― Christopher Green Leafy Swagon Indiebro (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd love to laugh at antipodean racists, and i often do - my impersonation of an australian is to say "fucking lebos mate" - but tonight on american television a british man is going to be browned up playing a character called "Fa'ad", so maybe people in glass houses and all that.
― C. Tuomas Howell (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
wait waht
― I lettered in Sam and Carl (HI DERE), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
check out this hilarious gif of paul henry http://imgur.com/zjI7H.gif
― del griffith, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/ae/articles/2010/07/18/20100718plant0718.html#ixzz10Mrv4PVU
maybe Plant thought he coined some new term or something
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WUCxQ.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I got this salsa the other day, and on the side of it it says that, "not unlike a Latin lover," it will "satisfy even your most hedonistic desires."
― CharlieS, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link