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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.ioHappy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 19:
Q: Why is so much Black music about violence and misogyny? I'm not racist, but is Black culture just more violent?
A: Racism. Rap, trap, and drill, are only the most popular genres of Black music listened to *by white people.*
Read the whole linked thread.
@mekkaokereke Thanks for sharing this.
The Greek singer Marina Satti raises some similar issues with her song Tucutum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N3eta7ZmPc
(What is true Balkan music? Why does misogyny/toxic masculinity have to be a part of it?)
Marina starts by criticizing Balkan trap and the associated 'culture', but at 2:04 she switches styles...that's when she advocates for a better style of music.
By the end, ladies are stacking the drunk/passed out men in the back of a pickup like logs...and we see little girls sadly copying the ways of their male elders.
On a more positive note, Marina mixes traditional music with modern styles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdO9pclq9H0
Her song Mantissa has uplifting lyrics, but is filmed in the back streets of Rome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPX43SfFu0A
The fortune teller told me that in order to find you I would have to have wings
And how to drink from your lips, you seas to travel
The fortune teller told me that if I wanted a lifetime to touch you
In bad weather and in loneliness, may I never bend
