Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

no, just that we be less sad about it

because damn

we can't decide how we feel.

"U on Twitter tho, oppressing me"

okay lol

that's the part where i was just like

it's funny in itself but as a response to "I'm a Swazi and directly affected by mswati's oppression" it's even better

marcos you are a true badass

The things humans do when they realize they've done something wrong are amusing and pathetic even when not in the public eye.

https://twitter.com/fatbellybella/status/461898793374728192
wooooof

yeah i unfollowed erykah over this. not the swaziland thing, but how dumb she seems about everything else

ugh

PUT DOWN THE VINE TWITTER AND RELEASE A NEW ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:54 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:( at all this

^^^

I saw the initial wave but surprised to see she kept going w/ all this

ugh wtf Erykah

it's always seemed to me like she's only on twitter to zing people

she's only on twitter to zing victims of human rights abuses

tbf that's why everyone is on Twitter

http://www.vocativ.com/culture/celebrity/ultimate-tyrant-tour-africa/

You don't say.

http://www.facebook.com/erykahbadu/posts/10152510846441554

she really should!

x 2

Among other more obvious things, a manager would make sure albums get out a little more often than once every 5 years.

What was that? It's down now.

Bragging about never having had a manager in her whole career (which I don't even know if I buy but).

got a ticket to see her with pharrell

Kedar surely played a manager-type role circa Baduizm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYjuEPYzdgU

loooool

http://lh3.ggpht.com/q36NimezZvrJmsO4UT6qNoeUWDaYHaanX97BTbNFJoDQox6aOWQo-mdLFSN4_VX7m7Ne4-wYk1BTNN217hI=s996

Fuck Jill Scott. She's the smiling, fat black lady that sings about love and non threatening things.

― chaki, Friday, July 20, 2001 8:00 PM (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow

yeah, fuck black artists who arent edgy or scary!

she should be skinny and angry

"she should be Michelle Obama"

Wait, was that chaki post a surprise?

don't unban chaki

Ha, someone just posted this on my feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jObonJzJZG0

I feel like that's pretty much the same critical argument I've read time and again about artists like Corinne Bailey Rae. It's okay to just dislike someone's music without expressing your dislike in terms of how that artist failed to live up/down to some nebulous cultural expectation you harbor in your bigoted mind. It's exceptionally gross.

All of those critiques/complaints read to me like some people are PISSED that there are black middle-class musicians

reminder of how many ilxors used to love chaki and would never ever ever call him out

what a fucking cunt who needed a severe beatdown tho, right? i hope he got it.

All of those critiques/complaints read to me like some people are PISSED that there are black middle-class musicians

― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP)

This was a repulsive strain in a lot of eighties criticism of black pop (Vandross, Baker, Jackson). They couldn't be Prince hence were suspect.

it's still pretty common now!

jill scott is terribly underrated
long as we're on this diversion, i barely remember this entering the conversation but one of the fappening pics was hers and her response was impressively above the fray
https://twitter.com/missjillscott/status/507503268541394945
more discussion here (and in a too much time on ilx double header, this article is by the jazzsplaining guy)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/05/after-naked-photo-hack-white-feminists-ignore-jill-scott/

Greil Marcus quote from the eighties:

“I think Anita Baker is ridiculous. Any time you hear somebody bringing back this kind of genteel, effete black music--the same number the Pointer Sisters pulled in the early '70s when they gave concerts with ‘Black Tie Recommended’ printed on the tickets--it's an incident in class politics that has nothing to do with music."

rock critics HAAAAAATED neo-soul. erykah got out bc she's ostentatiously weird but jill scott, angie stone let alone india arie got zero respect.

THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS THAT ROCK CRITICS AIN'T SHIT obviously. let no one refer to greil marcus as a respected authority again

also can we literally cut the dicks off everyone involved in the "fappening"

this thread has me replaying words and sounds v 1 so that's good

well greil marcus is also a misogynist imo, which doubles up on things

genteel, effete black music

Uh?