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Justin Timberlake is rebranding as a white man
TheOutline.com ^ | Jan—02—2018 03:01PM EST | Ann-Derrick Gaillot

Posted on 01/03/2018 1:53:48 AM PST by Thurifer the Censer

Authenticity is quite marketable now, and for white pop stars that means shifting away from the hip-hop and R&B-influenced sounds that made them famous, and toward the sounds of Southern and country rock. For Timberlake, the pivot should be sonically natural: Originally hailing from Tennessee, Timberlake has never been shy about celebrating his Southern origins.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: country; hiphop; race; timberlake
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Tl:dr It's racist for a white boy to start singing black music and it's racist for him to stop....Ya can't win...
1 posted on 01/03/2018 1:53:48 AM PST by Thurifer the Censer
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To: Thurifer the Censer
"I was born a poor Black child..."


2 posted on 01/03/2018 2:19:26 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Thurifer the Censer

Please

3 posted on 01/03/2018 2:21:27 AM PST by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: Thurifer the Censer
Most recently, hip-hop artist Post Malone pushed this narrative in an interview where he said, “If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to Hip Hop.”

If you are looking to be a decent human being, don't listen to hip hop.

Hip hop glorifies crime, violence, rape, and encourages "snitches" to be murdered. It views morality and decency as weaknesses. It promotes selfishness as normal. It equates loud, obnoxious behavior as the ideal.

If this garbage is a "contribution" of "Black Culture" then the Bubonic Plague was a "contribution" towards overpopulation in European cities and villages.

4 posted on 01/03/2018 2:47:27 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Thurifer the Censer
"...rebranding as a white man."

Good luck, sucker!


5 posted on 01/03/2018 3:01:22 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Thurifer the Censer

The white part I get, it’s the man part that stumps me.


6 posted on 01/03/2018 3:13:38 AM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Thurifer the Censer

Who cares?


7 posted on 01/03/2018 3:20:06 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Thurifer the Censer
When Michael Jackson died, so did Justin's career.
8 posted on 01/03/2018 3:30:31 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: equaviator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Jg-Omwmo4

A scene from HBO’s “The Wire” that always cracks me up on the subject of white kids “acting black”.


9 posted on 01/03/2018 3:59:51 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

White kids act black because they’re afraid to act white.


10 posted on 01/03/2018 4:12:35 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Tallguy

White kids act black because they’re afraid to act white.


11 posted on 01/03/2018 4:12:37 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: 867V309

Did he dance at a Super Bowl? Hard to live that down.


12 posted on 01/03/2018 4:16:52 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: SkyPilot

That was the best explanation about hip-hop that I’ve ever read!


13 posted on 01/03/2018 4:24:52 AM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: Thurifer the Censer
"And to be clear, without African-Americans, there would be no rock or country music as we know it either — but I digress."

This narrative is said over and over and people think it's true. Country music has it's roots in Ireland and Scotland and the last time I checked, those people are pretty white. I just have to look down at myself to know that since I'm half Irish. As for Rock and Roll, the most important thing about Rock is the guitar, can we all agree on that? Where was that invented? Not in the deep dark areas of Africa, but in Europe or possibly the Middle East.

What is fair to say is that all races have contributed to the creation of Rock and Country Music. American Blacks can uniquely claim creation of Rap, but not all this other nonsense.
14 posted on 01/03/2018 4:29:51 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

No that was an absolutely stupid explanation.

Rap was not created to glorify that stuff. Early rappers actually was either against that, or had no real message beyond just being party music.

What was being described is derived from gangsta rap, a branch of it that developed in the early 90s that shoved all of the clean acts like Run DMC, The Fat Boys, Will Smith and MC Hammer right out the door.

God knows what he thinks rap has to do with Europe’s issues. That’s reaching.


15 posted on 01/03/2018 4:50:24 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

No that was an absolutely stupid explanation.

Rap was not created to glorify that stuff. Early rappers actually was either against that, or had no real message beyond just being party music.

What was being described is derived from gangsta rap, a branch of it that developed in the early 90s that shoved all of the clean acts like Run DMC, The Fat Boys, Will Smith and MC Hammer right out the door.

God knows what he thinks rap has to do with Europe’s issues. That’s reaching.


16 posted on 01/03/2018 4:59:09 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Thurifer the Censer

>>For Timberlake, the pivot should be sonically natural

Yep,just add a slackjawed hick accent and “you singin’ country now, boy”.

I loathe the recording industry.

Is he gonna be hickhoppin’ about his truck, some brand of beer, and blue jeans like all of the other pop country acts of a few years ago?


17 posted on 01/03/2018 5:09:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Terry Mross

White kids act black because they’re told it is bad to act white, and that whiteness has no value, but aping irrational black mannerisms DOES have value.

And we did not correct them.

Our culture has been eradicated in a single generation. I weep.


18 posted on 01/03/2018 5:12:32 AM PST by T-Bone Texan
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

They’ll tell you that all music comes from the drum and the drum comes from “Mother Africa” (but don’t all people supposedly originate from Africa, so confusing).

The Grand Ole Opry didn’t permit drums.

http://musicweird.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-first-drums-on-grand-ole-opry.html

In its September 30, 1967, issue, Billboard reported that “a full set of drums was used on the ‘Grand Ole Opry’ for the first time in history” when Jerry Reed performed the previous week. (Billboard also misspelled drummer Willie Ackerman’s name.) But was Reed really the first?

For decades, the Opry famously refused to allow performers to use drums, and many artists over the years have been credited with being the first to bring drums to the Opry.

The no-drums rule adversely affected country artists who added rock and pop elements to their music in the late 1950s, which many artists did to remain commercially viable as traditional country waned in popularity. When they performed these crossover country songs on the Opry, they were forced to sound more traditional than they really were.

The rule also adversely affected rock and rockabilly performers who appeared on the Opry. When Carl Perkins’ rock ‘n’ roll classic “Blue Suede Shoes” became a hit on the pop, R&B, and country charts in 1955, he was invited to perform it on the Opry but wasn’t allowed to use drums.

Today, Music Weird will look at some of the artists who claim to be—or are claimed to be—the first to use drums at the Opry.

...The Billboard reporter who wrote about Jerry Reed apparently forgot that Bob Wills used a drummer on the Opry in 1944. Western swing star Bob Wills was scheduled to appear on the Opry for the first time on December 30, 1944, and was told that the Opry didn’t allow drums. Wills told the Opry that he would perform with drums or not at all, so the Opry allowed his band to go on with its drummer...


19 posted on 01/03/2018 5:16:22 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: T-Bone Texan

They’re UnKindred.....not the same natural kind. Congress unnaturalized the country in the 1860’s. They were supposed to keep USA the same kindred via naturalization.

Obama wasn’t born the same natural kind, his parents were not,

Timber lake was acting unnaturally.


20 posted on 01/03/2018 5:17:38 AM PST by bushpilot2
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