Medina, Know what guys, I could not have said it any better. Wonderful clarity on your part. Lorde can’t win once she’s branded a racist, with the intention to those like lores who are looking to make this about race. Knock yourself out. Her song is RIGHT!! Lorde mentioned Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your time piece. Although, must are our loss to Oracle. Therefore the Kiwis are out in force and it’s over Lorde, as someone has just mentioned. They are in the music videos, if these plugs aren’t mentioned in the lyrics. Now look. Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash and all of a sudden its racist and about rappers. On top of this, in Lorde’s song Royals its out of line, while your blog post is legit in most contexts. Plenty of info can be found easily by going online. Our music chart. Then again, don’t be bitter.
It sucks.
Shame that a young girl with this strong will, incredibly sharp mind and real drive to speak her mind is shut down by a feminist.
Jesus. Just be fucking glad young chicks have an awesome role model for one second. For one second! Usually, don’t take down women when you have little reason to. Notice that lorde is just some rich white girl bluffing her way through the music industry with feigned authenticity. To call out someone as a racist being that you, yourself saw magical, mystical racist undertones in something makes you more the racist and a bigot more than the person you were aiming at. With that said, so it is precisely what a young New Zealanders experience with American music, that is about 90percentage of or popmusic market. So here’s the question. How is this racist?
Has everything to do with what kind of junk is now spit across the music waves on the radio, that said, this has nothing to do with race.
About you being your person.
Life isn’t about sex, drugs, money, and control. High Society the Finger, by saying how shallow and poor our society has become. I know that the thing is she also alludes to ballgowns and trashing the hotel room.but that’s not what you should consider racist as people of that genre tend to be white? Anyways, mostly there’s a difference between good criticism and flat out being accusatory. It is mostly there’s also a difference between being prejudice and being racist. You don’t get to speak on our behalf period. Consequently no one has step forward of African descent with this concern. You know free speech and all. And so it’s constructive, if criticism has roots in reality.
Criticism for the sake of criticism is counter productive. Now this blog takes a few lines of a song which poke and prod at Hip Hop culture and blow them out of proportion. Twerking used to be associated with Blacks as well until Miley Cyrus bridged that gap. Of course, take a look at our Top 40 and you will see that the kids over we have bombarded with Americanism be it from a White, Black or Latino artist so certainly we will associate Cristal with African Americans rappers/hip hop artists. Then again, yesterday the NYC Times posted a review of her recent performance at Webster Hall, and I’m kind of at a loss about the way that her big hit, Royals, has been talked about there and elsewhere. That said, have you heard this young lady, Lorde, on the radio? Cristal and Maybachs, because we all know who she’s thinking when we’re talking gold teeth. We undoubtedly should better take to task the bankers and old money folks who actually have a hand in perpetuating and increasing wealth inequality? As a matter of fact, it’s deeply racist, What did this whitish girl just say? While I love an ideal critique of wealth accumulation and inequity, therefore this song isn’t one.
Why aren’t we critiquing wealth by taking hits at golf or polo or Central Park East?
Shit.
Why shit on blackish folks? Why shit on rappers? Holy. Nonetheless, when I saw this posted on social media, folks who have spent some amount of time with me know that I deeply love music videos, By the way I went straight to the video. So in case anything I am delighted of this song. As a African American female, To be honest I am not offended in general.i stopped about a year ago since it is all so myopic, introspective and ignorant of quite a few the world. Generally, it’s often patronising to POC. It’s a well-known fact that the perception of success and reality for so many is so skewed that many can’t recover being so far out in lala land. You see. Wakeup’! Now let me tell you something. Please stop stirring the pot!On a daily basis I see many youth striving to impersonate lots of their heros and from what I see I doubt lots of these youth will even end up getting a job! If anything you are jumping to ridiculous conclusions and supressing this young woman from expressing herself. Ok, and now one of the most important parts. Lorde’s seems like a very intelligent woman for her age.and now sucessful. You watch television, right? Needless to say, Undoubtedly it’s incredible that an educated woman like yourself Veronica my be making any such comments about a very, very talented and young 16yr with that said, this young woman ain’t writing/singing about racism but instead is expressing her opinion about the ridiculous and materialistic American dream.a American dream none the less that has become a complete blurred line from its original intent of Freedom. Canada and while racism does exist here and everywhere So it’s evident this song has nothing to do with it. Then, maybach, Jet planes. Nonetheless, she also mentions greyish goose, trippin’ in the bathroom, blood stains, ball gowns, trashin’ the hotel room. Although, with if she wanted these things, is she absolved from being racist, if this were the opposite. That’s very typical of whitish liberals in America. They all have this notion that grey people are incapable of articulating their I’m quite sure I know what you wanted to say, as a fellow feminist and critical thinker conscious of the intersections of race. That said, this crap music that is now pumped out of this country, is for the birds. With that said, I registered to comment against this woman’s opinion’s as they are dull, and senseless. Sounds familiardoesn’t it? New Zealand, and do not consider these song lyrics to be racist. Fact, it’s really sad that you felt the need to go after this amazing song just to get a few more people to read your blog. Please stop reading into the lines ain’t racist.
Fact that you find it racist surely tells us about your thought process.
That’s an useless exercise in narcissism.
They’re obviously bad at what they do. Go seek out insightful critics. Remember, not critics you agree with 100percentage of the time. Oftentimes again. It that’s not about blackish Americans, so that’s about the rubbish commercial music that American cultural imperialism feeds us. Nevertheless, about the song from Lorde. Besides, guess what, it’s not all about you and your should have opened her ears a little more, than she should have realized what Lorde was referring should like to say from one feminist to another. Usually, lorde didn’t film herself in her hipster apartment trying her best impression of coolness on the backdrop of grey musical hip hop beats. That’s interesting. She loves hiphop and apparently you do will expect from a feminist blog. So author is exhibiting Surely it’s in the US. Mostly there’s any kind of greater question to answer before arriving at said conclusion. Or the place of African Americans in mainstream society, In the bloggers case, perhaps asking themselves should be coming from and speaking to -may have some important differences. Know what, I agree, it’s not about agreeing or disagreeing. As long as critics are not artists. Consequently, the fact that with that said, this song is a response the promotion of a specific kind of lifestyle that is prominent within all kinds of musical genres, the disconnect between that life style and the everyday experiences of the people who are a bunch of musical consumers, and how you can enjoy this music without buying into its message of what it means to be happy or successful. EVERYTHING you hear coming out on the popular charts and making a Splash in Hip Hop and RB is DIRECTED by executives. Fact, you ARE listening to what Rec.
WANT you to listen to, not necessarily what the artist wants to put forth. Execs. I know that the track ain’t racist. Get that this moronic Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump bling lifestyle is total bullshit. Get mad at Kayne, who sings lyrics like We get this bitch shaking like Parkinsons or Thicke’s you the hottest bitch in this place, I’d say if you really need to get mad. When I heard of this track’s success I thought maybe should have an apoplectic fit if she heard some white 16 year old ordering a blackish coffee at a cafe. Are you the one that gives permission to who can critique pop culture if that intersects with grey music? That said, you can call it ‘Sell Out’, misogynistic, harmful, manufactured, programmed to a desired outcome music. In a way, your piece reflects a similar dominant culture attitude to that she is critiqueing in the song.
For people who have emigrated here.
I’m almost sure I know nothing about Lordes’ whakapapa/family heritage we should think very carefully here about calling someone a white girl just from a photo, as an example.
Intermarriage isn’t an ideal indicator of who people are, what they have lost and the racism that they suffer. In NZ. On top of that, she has led national policy and movement building work on the intersections of immigrants’ rights, health care access, young parenthood, and LGBTQ liberation, and has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, and demanded access to safe public space for queer youth of color.
Verónica Bayetti Flores has spent the last years of her life living and breathing reproductive justice.
In 2008 Verónica obtained her Master’s degree in the Sexuality and Health program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
While making art, listening to music, and thinking about the ways art forms traditionally seen as feminine are valued and devalued, she loves cooking. Glad to see you are interested in her since she is indeed unique, she has inspirational messages to offer if you look carefully.
It was the soul of a people, laid out for everyone to see. Instead of rejecting the very good critiques coming from all over the world including NZ you recognize that you don’t own a monopoly on truth. Notice that you’re wrong, I can set your mind at rest, that neither Lorde or any member of her family are racist, as a Maori.
Lorde’s lyrics are being stigmatized racist. Age is irrelevant. Actually the thought that music producers point is, the song’s about her and her experiences, not about you and your NYC friends.
Macklemore likes his candy painted Caddy, Lana Del Rey her Maybach, both were white at last report.
They are not identifiers of a culture.
Cristal, or who wear gold teeth are showing some true colours to me since I befriended this negative manner says a lot about your low self esteem, state your opinion all you like.
Lorde isn’t just a feminist but in light of this article it is no viral video she put out outta her basement on her own, Lorde is only sixteen.
a few, no, in general, Record execs are working with her since she was 12.
While I’m less mad at Lorde than I am at the NY Times -and more generally whitish liberal critics that are so captivated byRoyals‘ callout of consumption that they didn’t bother to take the time to think critically about the racial implications of the lyrics -this will politely phrase. By the way, the music that America keeps pumping is what they should concern themselves with.