Macklemore, "Same Love"

His beard, trimmed just so.

This is one of those weird situations where you think something is so transparently offensive and career-threatening that it can't have been done on purpose but so specific and calculated that it can't have been done unintentionally

I was thinking along these lines and wondering if he'd somehow pissed off his costume designer or something

This is one of those weird situations where you think something is so transparently offensive and career-threatening that it can't have been done on purpose but so specific and calculated that it can't have been done unintentionally. It's genuinely astonishing.

― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Monday, May 19, 2014 10:23 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is basically my feeling about every pop music/racism controversy of the last couple of years.

I was thinking along these lines and wondering if he'd somehow pissed off his costume designer or something

― soref, Monday, May 19, 2014 9:33 AM (38 minutes ago)

i like this theory, as improbable as it is

OTOH lol Seth Rogan: https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/statuses/468132181517152257

stopping now

― hella good Jewish homies (DJP), Monday, May 19, 2014 9:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahhhhhhhhh too good

Dressed in all blue except my rosh hashannah shoes, those are white
Draped in a talis, shiksa standing next to me
Probably shoulda washed this, smells like the rebbe's sheets, schvitz
But shit, it was 99 cents, I'm a cheap Jew, I'm copping it
Bout to go and get some compliments, passing up on those yarmulkes

now was that really necessary

it's ok I'm a hella good Jewish homie

not up to speed, is this bad cultural appropriation?

wtf
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Macklemore-says-costume-wasn-t-about-Jews-5489427.php

oh I see we're here already. sorry.

wait, is the original "Thrift Shop" as completely rhyme-averse as Hurting's rewrite (obv I'm not looking up the lyrics because fuck that)

nah I fudge it pretty bad

djp i would like to think you'd enjoy this link:

http://www.businessinsider.com/kidz-bop-thrift-shop-2013-6

are we having a poll on how many days he'll go with an aggressive "i done nothing man, people are just looking to be offended" stance before the inevitable weepy capitulation and begging for forgiveness?

you would be right to think that:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-kidz-bop-version-of-macklemores-thrift-shop-is-the-worst

Amazingly, as horrible as this is, it's more charming than the original

― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Monday, July 8, 2013 10:44 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not even really offended. He'd have to be much less of a dumbshit to have the ability to offend me.

it's more of a smdh moment

ha

xposts to djp

When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay,
'Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.

step back for a second. how did anyone take this seriously, ever

so his room was straight and he was gay

When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay,
'Cause I could draw...
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/4432919/dick-drawing-obsession-o.gif

Macklemore verses are definitely frighteningly short on functional endrhymes, DJP, yes

why was he in jewface idgi

fully willing to believe he had no clue, guy seems like a dimwit

If Katy Perry had done it, she would have at least said something about how Yentl inspired her so much as a child.

also fully willing to believe he knew and thought it would be, like, hilarious, because same

xp

did he make any reference to the costume at all during the performance or anything

I don't see this doing serious damage to his career. No matter how many times he shames black folks or splains to queers or dresses in jewface, white people still gonna be here for him.

none of the individual pieces of his costume taken separately would be cause for alarm but you put em all together and just... why dude

and yeah I doubt this will hurt his career one iota

If Katy Perry had done it, she would have at least said something about how Yentl inspired her so much as a child.

― hella good Jewish homies (DJP), Monday, May 19, 2014 12:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haaaaaaaa

xp exactly

"Barbra, Can You Dress Me?"

feel like hell prob fade from huge superstardom with his next album for musical reasons but will have a long career w his core audience that was paying the bills before thrift shop

this tweet makes it seem like he made a bar mitzvah joke but it's ambiguous https://twitter.com/lynnjacobson/statuses/467517278968225792

wish i could believe that, my guess is he has 2-3 albums of serious stardom left, followed by 10-15 years of filling venues of a respectable size.

xp

Yeah, there are still some topics for him to handle in a totally hamfisted way that stupid people eat up as profundity.

idk his music is pretty generic dance pop all his hits have other people singing the hooks, I'm skeptical of him as a irl pop star, agreed that being a gross self righteous kale smoothie of a man wont hurt him tho, big part of the draw in fact

Yeah I kind of already felt like he had overshot his star potential

um obviously the joke is that jews are cheap and therefore love thrift shops

nb i don't really care but that was the song he was singing while wearing his prosthetic nose, right?

yikes if so

he def did "Thrift Shop"; he did another song too but I'm not invested enough in my google searching to figure out what it was

a gross self righteous kale smoothie of a man

Perfect

I did some work with a large group of college and immediately post-college kids last summer, and there was a deep, serious, and genuine love for Macklemore, feel like that influences my view of how much stardom he has left.

Like, these people were basically already adults, it's not like growing out of your Bieber love or whatever.

Plus they love him as a serious album artist, not just a hitmaker.

i kind of buy the fact that he wasn't trying to do jewface... cause.. whut? .. but the ignorance involved is pretty next-level. honestly what drives me craziest about macklemore is the idea that ceilings.. hold things? it's such a weird, off-putting image. i was about to write that i kind of like thrift shop, cause i kind of do - ¯\(°_o)/¯ - but that said, i would never, ever put it on at a party, or choose to listen to it, so i guess i don't like it that much at all.

macklemore occupies the same space in my head as pitbull - basically, somebody who has no business making a living from rapping, but who somehow has, and have no idea what they're talking about most of the time, or what they're even supposed to be doing, but are just riding this wave of approbation to wherever it takes them, and maybe it's wrong but i kind of find them both adorable. stupid but adorable. that's probably really condescending. again, ¯\(°_o)/¯

Really tired of people excusing their behavior via "that wasn't my intention", as if that would make it "better" when it's really just a different kind of depressing/ugly (don't blame me, blame society)