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I'm fresh off a rant, and I feel so much better.
I don't watch The View, can't stand the attitudes of some of the hosts, but you do run into clips in the rabbit hole to the right of whatever YouTube video you're watching. This one caught my eye, since lately I've been discovering Bruno Mars:
I wrote this comment, but it will probably get deleted. I always get deleted on YouTube.
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Poor Bruno, subjected to the spanking stick of Joyless Behar after receiving an invitation to come on "The Spew" to promote his album. Bruno doesn't have the language, probably due to lack of exposure, and his young age, to answer to High Horsey on her premise of his white privilege to perform what people call "soul music".
All of music is an evolution, from influence to influence, innovation to innovation, inspiration to inspiration. Some say all forms of American popular music were founded by African American populations: Gospel, blues, R&B, soul, funk, jazz, Latin rhythms such as salsa, mambo, samba and other Afro-Ibero hybrids born from new world colonization and slavery to freedom. Rock & roll evolved from the blues. Elvis Presley was not without the influences of music genres attributed to black populations. Famous English bands like the Beatles and Rolling Stones acknowledged American guitar based blues rock as their inspiration. The whole "Hot Club" movement of France was in tribute to American black artists, with a keen awareness of their lack of civil rights at the time. Africa itself has many forms of gorgeous music, and African Americans, now preferring to just be called "blacks", innovated on what they brought with them as slaves, here and in other countries. ALL music goes back to the mother's heartbeat heard by the unborn child in the womb, and subsequently every mother who sang her baby to sleep. Does all music steal from that?
"Blue eyed soul" is a very old term, going back to artists of the 1960's who were inspired by the Motown sound, but in reality, "blue eyed soul" is older than that.
Being, as he claims, "half Filipino and half Puerto Rican", that Puerto Rican half is probably full of African DNA, as African free men were predominant among the colonizers of Puerto Rico.
Maybe Joyless Behar should get off her big white ass, do something to promote peace, and stop trying to promote bad feelings that do not exist among artists, about who has the right to make beautiful soulful sounds. Her privilege to be nasty on a crappy TV show is on the shoulders of truly talented people who did tough interviews before her.
I don't watch The View, can't stand the attitudes of some of the hosts, but you do run into clips in the rabbit hole to the right of whatever YouTube video you're watching. This one caught my eye, since lately I've been discovering Bruno Mars:
I wrote this comment, but it will probably get deleted. I always get deleted on YouTube.
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Poor Bruno, subjected to the spanking stick of Joyless Behar after receiving an invitation to come on "The Spew" to promote his album. Bruno doesn't have the language, probably due to lack of exposure, and his young age, to answer to High Horsey on her premise of his white privilege to perform what people call "soul music".
All of music is an evolution, from influence to influence, innovation to innovation, inspiration to inspiration. Some say all forms of American popular music were founded by African American populations: Gospel, blues, R&B, soul, funk, jazz, Latin rhythms such as salsa, mambo, samba and other Afro-Ibero hybrids born from new world colonization and slavery to freedom. Rock & roll evolved from the blues. Elvis Presley was not without the influences of music genres attributed to black populations. Famous English bands like the Beatles and Rolling Stones acknowledged American guitar based blues rock as their inspiration. The whole "Hot Club" movement of France was in tribute to American black artists, with a keen awareness of their lack of civil rights at the time. Africa itself has many forms of gorgeous music, and African Americans, now preferring to just be called "blacks", innovated on what they brought with them as slaves, here and in other countries. ALL music goes back to the mother's heartbeat heard by the unborn child in the womb, and subsequently every mother who sang her baby to sleep. Does all music steal from that?
"Blue eyed soul" is a very old term, going back to artists of the 1960's who were inspired by the Motown sound, but in reality, "blue eyed soul" is older than that.
Being, as he claims, "half Filipino and half Puerto Rican", that Puerto Rican half is probably full of African DNA, as African free men were predominant among the colonizers of Puerto Rico.
Maybe Joyless Behar should get off her big white ass, do something to promote peace, and stop trying to promote bad feelings that do not exist among artists, about who has the right to make beautiful soulful sounds. Her privilege to be nasty on a crappy TV show is on the shoulders of truly talented people who did tough interviews before her.
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1975 Dawn at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'He Don't Love You, (Like I Love You)'
1975 The Bay City Rollers at No.1 on the UK chart with their second album 'Once Upon A Star'
1980 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Against The Wind'
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