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Topic subjectDo you listen to pop music nowadays? Do you look at the charts?
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3000128, Do you listen to pop music nowadays? Do you look at the charts?
Posted by micMajestic, Wed Jan-10-18 09:51 AM
>Which makes no sense to argue now in a Post MJJ, Whitney &
>Prince world.

There are quite a few others that are charting high off of traditionally Black music. Music & radio works more mechanically than ever, if it sells better without the Black faces then just remove them.

Do you notice how they removed most of the Black women from hip-hop music videos? Did you know that Adele's wiki notes one of her genres as "blue eyed soul"? Do you hear Black people using that term? If not, why do you think it exists? Why are so many of the popular rappers talking about pills nowadays? Why are they so angsty? Why dress like they do?

I'm not even going to touch the fact that the three Black pop artists you listed....