Macklemore, "Same Love"

"As a company (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC), we are committed to a long-term investment of our time, resources, finances and creative capacities towards supporting black-led organizing and anti-racist education & discourse.

We are engaging with four initial organizations and collectives whose work inspires and informs us: Black Lives Matter, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, Youth Undoing Institutional Racism & Freedom School (a project of AFSC and The People's Institute), and Black Youth Project 100."

wld be beautiful if ppls hatred motivated him to sabotage his career

well perhaps that song is the first step of the sabotage

omg what if this whole album is mackle trying to be kendrick

― lag∞n, Friday, January 22, 2016 1:20 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To Mackle a Butterfly

also I think that if you don't have a grasp on enharmonics, you should not be putting out music tutorials

― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, January 22, 2016 12:58 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know what enharmonics are but like lots of times it's just like you wanna know how to play a GnR riff or something not get a Ph.D. in harpsichord from the Little Lord Fauntleroy Academy of Music

YUIR are a really awesome group here in Seattle. That's going to be my only comment here about this.

So is 'Downtown' Macklemore's attempt at 'King Kunta'?

i don't know what enharmonics are but like lots of times it's just like you wanna know how to play a GnR riff or something not get a Ph.D. in harpsichord from the Little Lord Fauntleroy Academy of Music

do you understand that F# and G-flat are the same note?

when writing out a major D triad, would you write it as "D, F#, A" rather than "D, G-flat, A"?

congrats, you understand enharmonics

To Mackle a Butterfly

lol

do you understand that F# and G-flat are the same note?

Yes!

when writing out a major D triad, would you write it as "D, F#, A" rather than "D, G-flat, A"?

No! (but i don't read or music and so i guess there's no meaningful difference between what it's called it's just a fret on a string)...(actually now that i started playing in open tunings i don't know what any notes are really except the open strings)

congrats, you understand enharmonics

i do now, i guess it sounded fancier than it was

this is like piano 101 guys

i play music from the gut not the piano you ascot wearin square

lol

so does he mention his 3 un-deserved Grammys in this? i am not giving him the views/youtube sales by listening to this song. i have heard his music before, it is shit.

i do now, i guess it sounded fancier than it was

this is music theory in a nutshell

yes lol

altho I am like m@tt in that playing guitar or keyboard I'm just like oh *that* note why does it have two names, which one is the right one? I don't care really

xp

all the black notes have to have two names

isn't that kind of weird

I am not going further down this rabbit hole I swear

(actually now that i started playing in open tunings i don't know what any notes are really except the open strings)

also m@tt just get a clip-on/snark tuner and it will always tell you what note you're playing (which I've found is v convenient to communicating w other players when using non-standard guitar tunings)

this is a more interesting conversation than one based upon "White Privilege II", y/n

trick question, they're both awful

ok i just read the lyrics. he doesn't mention the Grammy awards at all. this guy refuses to acknowledge his own privilege.

wait til white privilege 3

White Privilege 3: Dream Warriors

lollll

Wow that song is really embarrassing, he should have called it White Guilt.

white & guilty

so forks just pointed out the existence of the song "My Dick" by 3OH!3 on another thread and, after listening to that and looking back at "White Privilege II", things could be SO MUCH WORSE

I thought the most effective part was the fan who starts off sounding cool and gradually gets racist.

I didn't mind that part when I played it back (yes I played it again) but it's still kind of garbled compared to the bit immediately after it

I don't think I can make it through this song but I liked this:

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2016/01/22/23461701/macklemore-and-ryan-lewiss-new-8-minute-46-second-single-really-puts-the-i-in-white-privilege

http://i.imgur.com/OGG1wxx.jpg

classique tweet

Kris ex:
http://m.pitchfork.com/thepitch/1003-macklemores-white-privilege-ii-is-a-mess-but-we-should-talk-about-it/

Macklemore should battle rap Trump.

"As a company (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC), we are committed to a long-term investment of our time, resources, finances and creative capacities towards supporting black-led organizing and anti-racist education & discourse.

We are engaging with four initial organizations and collectives whose work inspires and informs us: Black Lives Matter, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, Youth Undoing Institutional Racism & Freedom School (a project of AFSC and The People's Institute), and Black Youth Project 100."

can we acknowledge that these are positive things or no? srs question.

i wonder waht kind of tax breaks Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC get

They are unambiguously positive things. I don't think that makes the song any good.

so forks just pointed out the existence of the song "My Dick" by 3OH!3 on another thread and, after listening to that and looking back at "White Privilege II", things could be SO MUCH WORSE

― its subtle brume (DJP)

Yeah, it coulda been "White Dick"

/Macklemore may be looped in with the likes of Miley Cyrus and Iggy Azalea when it comes to criticism surrounding the appropriation of black culture, but he's making a clear point today in separating himself from them.

In fact, the rapper just dropped his latest song with Ryan Lewis called "White Privilege II"—a follow-up to the original 2005 track "White Privilege"—in which he not only expresses his determination to rally behind the black community, but he also calls out both Cyrus and Azalea for their lack of attention to the people they "stole" their music from./

http://www.eonline.com/news/733272/macklemore-calls-out-miley-cyrus-and-iggy-azalea-for-appropriating-black-culture-in-white-privilege-ii
--o. nate

Dying that E! had to get this up so fast that they completely missed the point of this verse

Truly the Randy Newman of our time

They are unambiguously positive things. I don't think that makes the song any good.

― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, January 22, 2016 7:05 PM (4 hours ago)

Agreed! I was asking to see just how committed this community is to giving dude even the teensiest tiniest shred of credit for anything at all.

http://www.okayafrica.com/news/same-love-kenya-cover-macklemore-lgbt-rights/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EataOQvPII&feature=youtu.be

when i grow up i want macklemore to eat my asshole

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:59 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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http://i.imgur.com/1dDg3bp.png

Damn that's crazy

it's at 80k now but still pretty dire

can't wait until the music industry bubble finally bursts and we learn the last CD actually sold was in 1998

Adele just sold 5 million CDs but that's definitely the last time that will ever happen

sold them to an unmarked warehouse

yeah if macklemore was around in the mid 1990s he'd probably have sold like 20 million records

i guess that's what you call cosmic justice