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Why is whitening bad?
by fiatjaf 11y ago
Why is whitening bad?
- coldtea 11y agoCan't speak for the original parent poster who brought it up, but it depends on the context. The whitening of rock and roll, jazz, hip hop etc often meant watering down those forms in their original form, to fit more conventional, domesticated and commercial white audiences. That is, making the music more formulaic, the lyrics less explicit, the delivery less frenetic and/or urgent, the topics under discussion more tame, etc. That is not merely some neutral stylistic change, but something like betraying their original "soul" and depth of the songs for cheap sales. In pure white terms, something analogous would be The Beatles -> The Monkeys, or Elvis -> Perry Como.
- was8309 11y agonot bad, just preferred by whoever pays to direct culture.