I thought Dexter Holland looked pretty good with braids. It’s a short list, though.
Tastes must really be subjective, because those braids look fine to me. In fact, the guy looks like he could be black (albino). But maybe that’s just an illusion.
I suspect it’s just age. That’s Axl Rose around the time the old new Guns and Roses resurfaced.
:smack:
While mowing the grass, I just thought of this.
When I think of cultural appropriation, I think of taking an artifact from a historically stigmitized, invisible culture and transforming it into something palatable for the unsuspecting masses. I don’t know if this is close to the formal definition or not. But it’s how I’m looking at the Miley video.
Hip hop is too big of a cultural force to be described as “stigmitized”. It’s definitely not invisible. If anything, it has just as much mainstream caché as Miley’s cultural roots, at least for the demographic she speaks to. I could see this particular charge sticking if the year was 1993 and most people had never heard of hip hop. But everything in that video is pretty much old hat for anyone who’s been paying attention to pop music trends for the past 30 years.
So “poseur” fits a lot better than “cultural appropriator”, IMHO.
I hereby impose a ban on kilt wearing by people who are not ethnically Scottish. My great-grandfather didn’t risk his kilted arse in the Gallant Forty-Twa to see his culture stolen from his descendants.
Can I just say this is all bullshit.
Die Antwooord are a parody band. Ninja (or to give him his proper name : Watkin Tudor Jones) did not grow up on the Cape Flats, and this persona is only the latest in a long line of them (He used to wear a suit and tie and rap as “Max Normal”). Zef’s a real subculture, but Die Antwoord definitely appropriate it, they’ve never lived it. And it’s not a mixed culture - it’s the culture of poor Whites with a little Coloured thrown in, there’s no Black in it.
Personally, I preferJack Parow, he’s funnier and a better rapper. And he doesn’t have that ridiculous woman with him.
I find this incredibly funny because the NBA has had an influx of nerd fashion in recent years, a deliberate counterpoint to hip hop influenced fashions that dominated for so long, calling to mind instead the preppies of decades past. Wearing a patterned suit, bow tie, and suspenders as a poor black kid attending college for the first time would hardly merit comment these days, I would think. I’m not sure anyone can pull off an ascot or riding boots unless they were about to play polo these days.
Article by Morris here, worth a read I think.
Are NBA players appropriating white preppie culture from the 90’s? Is it okay because it’s ironic? Does anyone actually care?