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To: Wolfstar
The screeching, caterwauling, and rythmic speech (rap) that passes for black "music" these days is, frankly, an insult to the great contribution so many earlier black singers and musicians made to American popular music.

Absolutely! Fantasia, at her core, is a fine singer. She doesn't need to ham it up the way she did tonight. This was amateur stuff. For anybody that had never heard her sing before, they're probably scratching their heads wondering how she won. "Act ugly" indeed.

2,083 posted on 04/06/2005 8:13:45 PM PDT by silent_jonny ("We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: silent_jonny
Fantasia, at her core, is a fine singer.

Yes, she sure is. And she seems like a very nice, down-to-earth person, as well. Unfortunately, the so-called black urban music genre -- which includes and rap, gangsta rap, modern R&B, hip-hop, etc. -- is the hottest selling category of music these days. I don't know who buys it, but I sure don't.

2,088 posted on 04/06/2005 8:19:24 PM PDT by Wolfstar (If you can lead, do it. If you can't, follow. If you can't do either, become a Democrat.)
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