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The Admiral
03/12/18 12:10:56 PM
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/entertainment/bruno-mars-cultural-appropriation-reaction-trnd/index.html

Bruno Mars found himself caught in a heated debate about cultural appropriation over the weekend after an activist accused the "24K Magic" star of being a culture vulture profiting off of traditionally black music.

"Cultural appropriation," according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is "the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture."

Bruno Mars' mother is Filipina and his father is Puerto Rican and Jewish
But the Grammy-winning star is known for blending elements of funk, soul, R&B, reggae and hip-hop in his music --- genres that are historically and traditionally African-American.

Here's the two-minute video that started it all:

this is why i hate bruno mars @seren_sensei says it all pic.twitter.com/CRLktsA2ea
hannie (@hannahmburrell) March 9, 2018


"Bruno Mars 100% is a cultural appropriator. He is not black, at all, and he plays up his racial ambiguity to cross genres," writer and activist Seren Sensei said in a clip for "The Grapevine," a web series that explores African-American issues.

"What Bruno Mars does, is he takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it," she added. "He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better. He's a karaoke singer, he's a wedding singer, he's the person you hire to do Michael Jackson and Prince covers. Yet Bruno Mars has an Album of the Year Grammy and Prince never won an Album of the Year Grammy."


Another good example of the left destroying itself.

EDIT: *Mars
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Butterfiles
03/12/18 12:11:15 PM
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Bruno Wars
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Smashingpmkns
03/12/18 12:11:21 PM
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Bruno Wars

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Sativa_Rose
03/12/18 12:12:22 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Bruno Wars


lol
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A_Good_Boy
03/12/18 12:13:57 PM
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The Admiral posted...
an activist

Oh wow is that all. One person?
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eston
03/12/18 12:14:03 PM
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Regardless of whether anyone agrees with the cultural appropriation aspect, this:
"What Bruno Mars does, is he takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it," she added. "He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better. He's a karaoke singer, he's a wedding singer, he's the person you hire to do Michael Jackson and Prince covers. Yet Bruno Mars has an Album of the Year Grammy and Prince never won an Album of the Year Grammy."

is a fairly accurate statement
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SSJGrimReaper
03/12/18 12:14:35 PM
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FrisbeeDude
03/12/18 12:14:43 PM
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1. Latinos relationship with African Americans is complicated. I don't like how many feel comfortable saying the n word and adopting urban culture, only to turn around and aggressively remind people that they are not black

2. Plenty of color don't have a problem with mars.
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jpenny2
03/12/18 12:14:45 PM
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Begun the Bruno War has.
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The Admiral
03/12/18 12:15:01 PM
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eston posted...
Regardless of whether anyone agrees with the cultural appropriation aspect, this:
"What Bruno Mars does, is he takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it," she added. "He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better. He's a karaoke singer, he's a wedding singer, he's the person you hire to do Michael Jackson and Prince covers. Yet Bruno Mars has an Album of the Year Grammy and Prince never won an Album of the Year Grammy."

is a fairly accurate statement


This is like a 1/3 of hip-hop music that just samples other songs.
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Kaname_Madoka
03/12/18 12:15:43 PM
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>SJWs
>the left
>one random person none of us have ever heard of
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FLUFFYGERM
03/12/18 12:15:57 PM
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So...if you're not X culture...you can't sing songs that are in Y style? What in the fuck?
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spudger
03/12/18 12:16:12 PM
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Sativa_Rose posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Bruno Wars


lol

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TheVipaGTS
03/12/18 12:16:15 PM
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one person accuses Bruno WARS of thing..."the left is eating itself"...Black people love Bruno Mars, TC. stop being such a transparent try hard...don't you have a wall street job to be focusing on?
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Anarchy_Juiblex
03/12/18 12:16:38 PM
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eston posted...
Regardless of whether anyone agrees with the cultural appropriation aspect, this:
"What Bruno Mars does, is he takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it," she added. "He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better. He's a karaoke singer, he's a wedding singer, he's the person you hire to do Michael Jackson and Prince covers. Yet Bruno Mars has an Album of the Year Grammy and Prince never won an Album of the Year Grammy."

is a fairly accurate statement


One could say that, "Bruno Wars, Bruno Wars never changes."
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Ricemills
03/12/18 12:17:43 PM
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Bruno mars is an idiot anyway.
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The Admiral
03/12/18 12:17:49 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
one person accuses Bruno WARS of thing..."the left is eating itself"...Black people love Bruno Mars, TC. stop being such a transparent try hard...don't you have a wall street job to be focusing on?


No, one person is quoted in the OP. The article gives other people who are also attacking him and covers the Twitter controversy.

Interestingly, Shaun King defended him. Guess this issue hits a little close to home for Talcum X.
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Carveless
03/12/18 12:17:55 PM
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jpenny2 posted...
Begun the Bruno War has.

It's treason, then
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SK8T3R215
03/12/18 12:18:20 PM
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2018 is the year one person on Twitter can post shit and get an article on CNN about it.
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TheGrindery
03/12/18 12:18:52 PM
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Good. I hope he picks another culture to rip off every time he does another album.
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creativerealms
03/12/18 12:19:14 PM
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I see nothing about the left destroying itself. Oh wait you thing SJW idiots are the whole left and represent us as a whole. LOL.

That's a problem with the far right. They think even over rightists are the far left.
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eston
03/12/18 12:20:32 PM
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The Admiral posted...
eston posted...
Regardless of whether anyone agrees with the cultural appropriation aspect, this:
"What Bruno Mars does, is he takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it," she added. "He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better. He's a karaoke singer, he's a wedding singer, he's the person you hire to do Michael Jackson and Prince covers. Yet Bruno Mars has an Album of the Year Grammy and Prince never won an Album of the Year Grammy."

is a fairly accurate statement


This is like a 1/3 of hip-hop music that just samples other songs.

Yeah but with Bruno Mars it feels more like he is emulating other peoples' music not just sampling
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Bok_Choi
03/12/18 12:22:23 PM
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The idea that hip hop, r&b, jazz, etc are only for black people is ignorant and backwards as fuck

I feel like anyone who really appreciates these forms of music realize that they're meant to be for everyone, even if traditionally they were used to highlight black struggle, etc
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Twin3Turbo
03/12/18 12:22:58 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
one person accuses Bruno WARS of thing..."the left is eating itself"...Black people love Bruno Mars, TC. stop being such a transparent try hard...don't you have a wall street job to be focusing on?

Yep. Black folks by and large don't give a damn. Hell, this is the first time I've seen anyone complain. His music is extremely popular on both the hip hop stations and the more traditional R&B stations.

Also if I'm being honest, he's making closer to traditional style R&B better than the vast majority of so called R&B artists out there. I hope he keeps it up.
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Touch
03/12/18 12:23:26 PM
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Bruno Wars sounds like a badass fps protagonist name
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CyricZ
03/12/18 12:25:02 PM
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Smashingpmkns
03/12/18 12:25:49 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
https://imgur.com/gallery/4uPRj


That's a slam dunk screen cap.
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Doom_Art
03/12/18 12:26:27 PM
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Another day another thing for Addy to get all upset over
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TheVipaGTS
03/12/18 12:26:38 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
https://imgur.com/gallery/4uPRj


That's a slam dunk screen cap.

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MC_BatCommander
03/12/18 12:27:53 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
https://imgur.com/gallery/4uPRj


That's a slam dunk screen cap.


10/10
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FrisbeeDude
03/12/18 12:28:07 PM
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I thought I screwed up the link
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TheVipaGTS
03/12/18 12:29:04 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
I thought I screwed up the link

well if you want it to display without clicking it..

YV3ER8j
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sktgamer_13dude
03/12/18 12:29:29 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
https://imgur.com/gallery/4uPRj


That's a slam dunk screen cap.

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FrisbeeDude
03/12/18 12:29:42 PM
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Yeah that's what I was trying to do
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eston
03/12/18 12:30:34 PM
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The Admiral
03/12/18 12:30:47 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
https://imgur.com/gallery/4uPRj


That's a slam dunk screen cap.


This article is based on comments from a black author, not a random Twitter idiot.

You guys tried, though.
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gamer167
03/12/18 12:31:30 PM
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Jimmy Hendrix was bigoted trash who appropriated playing the guitar and rock and roll
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TheVipaGTS
03/12/18 12:31:52 PM
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The Admiral posted...
This article is based on comments from a black author, not a random Twitter idiot.


The Admiral posted...
No, one person is quoted in the OP. The article gives other people who are also attacking him and covers the Twitter controversy.


you tried too, i guess...
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masticatingman
03/12/18 12:32:02 PM
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Cultural appropriation ignores how America is obviously a cultural melting pot.
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FrisbeeDude
03/12/18 12:32:46 PM
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The Admiral posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
https://imgur.com/gallery/4uPRj


That's a slam dunk screen cap.


This article is based on comments from a black author, not a random Twitter idiot.

You guys tried, though.


So a random person on Twitter with a job.
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The Admiral
03/12/18 12:32:51 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
The Admiral posted...
This article is based on comments from a black author, not a random Twitter idiot.


The Admiral posted...
No, one person is quoted in the OP. The article gives other people who are also attacking him and covers the Twitter controversy.


you tried too, i guess...


I don't even need to guess that you were too lazy to click the link and read the article.
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CasualGuy
03/12/18 12:33:09 PM
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eston posted...
Regardless of whether anyone agrees with the cultural appropriation aspect, this:
"What Bruno Mars does, is he takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it," she added. "He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better. He's a karaoke singer, he's a wedding singer, he's the person you hire to do Michael Jackson and Prince covers. Yet Bruno Mars has an Album of the Year Grammy and Prince never won an Album of the Year Grammy."

is a fairly accurate statement


I know very little about music. Who did he steal that 24 magic song from?
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Resolution
03/12/18 12:35:01 PM
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CasualGuy posted...
eston posted...
Regardless of whether anyone agrees with the cultural appropriation aspect, this:
"What Bruno Mars does, is he takes pre-existing work and he just completely, word-for-word recreates it, extrapolates it," she added. "He does not create it, he does not improve upon it, he does not make it better. He's a karaoke singer, he's a wedding singer, he's the person you hire to do Michael Jackson and Prince covers. Yet Bruno Mars has an Album of the Year Grammy and Prince never won an Album of the Year Grammy."

is a fairly accurate statement


I know very little about music. Who did he steal that 24 magic song from?


Goldust
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Lost_All_Senses
03/12/18 12:35:08 PM
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sktgamer_13dude posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
https://imgur.com/gallery/4uPRj


That's a slam dunk screen cap.


This is the truth. Now news doesn't have to just make up stories out of thin air when they don't have anything. They can just browse twitter and blow something up.
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Barenziah Boy Toy
03/12/18 12:35:22 PM
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The main question about appropriation is whether Bruno Mars understands and appreciates black or African American culture.
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wackyteen
03/12/18 12:36:04 PM
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So you have to be of a certain skin color to perform a certain genre of music

The cognitive dissonance is outstanding
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Bok_Choi
03/12/18 12:36:08 PM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
The main question about appropriation is whether Bruno Mars understands and appreciates black or African American culture.

hint: reducing black/afro american culture to hip hop and r&b is racist
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joestarrr
03/12/18 12:36:26 PM
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masticatingman posted...
Cultural appropriation ignores how America is obviously a cultural melting pot.


I disagree. Sharing culture is different from taking it and making it yours when it does not belong to you.
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The Admiral
03/12/18 12:36:33 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
sktgamer_13dude posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
https://imgur.com/gallery/4uPRj


That's a slam dunk screen cap.


This is the truth. Now news doesn't have to just make up stories out of thin air when they don't have anything. They can just browse twitter and blow something up.


They can and do, but this is not an example of that. None of the clowns in that quote chain even read the OP, much less the actual article. Another "gotcha moment" gone wrong due to laziness.
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TheVipaGTS
03/12/18 12:36:59 PM
#53:


The Admiral posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
The Admiral posted...
This article is based on comments from a black author, not a random Twitter idiot.


The Admiral posted...
No, one person is quoted in the OP. The article gives other people who are also attacking him and covers the Twitter controversy.


you tried too, i guess...


I don't even need to guess that you were too lazy to click the link and read the article.

yea and it goes back to my first point..

TheVipaGTS posted...
one person accuses Bruno WARS of thing..."the left is eating itself"...Black people love Bruno Mars, TC. stop being such a transparent try hard...don't you have a wall street job to be focusing on?


if you want to make this about the author only then it still isn't noteworthy. who is this author? why does he matter? its a stupid thing to say. "the left" and black people in general seem to like Bruno Mars. If you want to use the "twitter comments" to back up your claim that this is the "left eating itself" than that screencap pointing out your hypocrisy is perfectly valid. Again, you're a transparent try hard who needs a new hobby.
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