Appropriation = Good!

Sund4r- isn't the majority of the thread mostly in agreement with the top post?

http://davidbyrne.com/archive/news/press/articles/I_hate_world_music_1999.php

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNpUZCXXcAExoEa.jpg

I find my self more and more struck and sometimes annoyed at how much american/british pop music there is that leans heavily on trying to sound like soul and R&B music. Like I had always *known* "rock and roll is black music" but I didn't realize when I was younger how much every single fucking white rock/pop singer is imitating black singers.

any specific examples here? surely a lot of rock singers, especially contemporary ones, are imitating other rock singers?

Bob Seeger was one who struck me recently. Wasn't thinking so much about contemporary as 60s-80s.

Also, less of a singer thing, but it hit me recently that the Doors rhythm section was trying to sound like Booker T. and the MGs.

were they? I always thought Densmore wanted to play bebop and got stuck in a rock band

Tom waits embarrasses me to listen to now lol

For this reason among others

this is a good piece btw https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/the-question-of-cultural-appropriation