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Justin Timberlake is rebranding as a white man
TheOutline.com ^ | Jan—02—2018 03:01PM EST | Ann-Derrick Gaillot

Posted on 01/03/2018 1:53:48 AM PST by Thurifer the Censer

Authenticity is quite marketable now, and for white pop stars that means shifting away from the hip-hop and R&B-influenced sounds that made them famous, and toward the sounds of Southern and country rock. For Timberlake, the pivot should be sonically natural: Originally hailing from Tennessee, Timberlake has never been shy about celebrating his Southern origins.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: country; hiphop; race; timberlake
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To: Terry Mross
White kids act black because they’re afraid to act white.

No, it's because they think it's cool. The same way today's "kids" think it's cool to be bisexual or transgender or gay.

21 posted on 01/03/2018 5:20:45 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Thurifer the Censer

I don’t care about timberlake. I don’t care if millions of teeny-boppers have tingles going down their legs over him. I don’t care if someone calls him White or if he plays music that is often attributed to Blacks. The article is stupid.


22 posted on 01/03/2018 5:24:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of hate-America savages.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

>>American Blacks can uniquely claim creation of Rap, but not all this other nonsense.

I’ve got a couple of theories of the origin:

1) country had a thing where the “singer” would talk out the words (quickly). Think “Smoke That Cigarette” and “I’ve Been Everywhere”. Eefon’ is like beat-boxin’ too.

2) and probably more accurate, boys being babysat by their older sisters doing jump rope rhymes on the street. It just sounds cooler to claim that it was their tribute to the pimp toasts at gatherings that they could only read about.

Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9hK82r-AM


23 posted on 01/03/2018 5:24:54 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Thurifer the Censer

And...?


24 posted on 01/03/2018 5:45:33 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Thurifer the Censer

I have no idea who Justin Timberlake is and i’m Proud that I don’t know.


25 posted on 01/03/2018 5:50:08 AM PST by democratsaremyenemy (Streepisacreep)
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To: VanDeKoik
"Rap was not created to glorify that stuff. Early rappers actually was either against that, or had no real message beyond just being party music." Here's what Mister B had to say.
26 posted on 01/03/2018 6:08:02 AM PST by Celerity
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To: Thurifer the Censer

Justin Timberlake is one of the great artists of our time. I’ve really had it with these race-baiting idiot columnists.


27 posted on 01/03/2018 6:20:13 AM PST by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: Terry Mross

Close.

White kids act black because they’re afraid of getting beat up and robbed..................


28 posted on 01/03/2018 6:20:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: a fool in paradise

You forgot to add ‘wearing a dirty cowboy hat, too big for his head’..................


29 posted on 01/03/2018 6:22:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: a fool in paradise

Wills told the Opry that he would perform with drums or not at all, so the Opry allowed his band to go on with its drummer...

30 posted on 01/03/2018 6:27:04 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: LYDIAONTARIO
That was the best explanation about hip-hop that I’ve ever read!

Thanks LYDIAONTARIO, I appreciate that.

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No that was an absolutely stupid explanation. Rap was not created to glorify that stuff. Early rappers actually was either against that, or had no real message beyond just being party music. What was being described is derived from gangsta rap, a branch of it that developed in the early 90s that shoved all of the clean acts like Run DMC, The Fat Boys, Will Smith and MC Hammer right out the door. God knows what he thinks rap has to do with Europe’s issues. That’s reaching.

VanDeKoik,

First of all, I don't mind at all that posters don't agree with me - that's what the forum is all about (debate and conversation). But if you want to comment on something I said, you could have the common courtesy to cc me on a post about it.

Next, I made an analogy of Hip Hop "contributing" to "Black Culture" as the Bubonic Plague "contributed" to overpopulation in European towns and villages when it decimated them (that happened centuries ago for the historically challenged). How you read that to mean that I believe "rap" has something do with with current European issues is beyond me.

Both Hip Hop and the Plague have nothing to contribute to any society.

Does that clear things up?

had no real message beyond just being party music. What was being described is derived from gangsta rap, a branch of it that developed in the early 90s that shoved all of the clean acts like Run DMC, The Fat Boys, Will Smith and MC Hammer right out the door.

I make no such distinction between "party" rap and "gangsta" rap because there isn't one - it is all crap.

Rap has a message: drugs, rape, misogyny, selfishness, crime, violence, stupidity, boorishness, narcissism - all mixed together with the inability to put actual musical notes together in any form. Hence, they have to steal even basic melodies from others, and then talk their profanity laced sewer mumblings over them.

31 posted on 01/03/2018 6:27:21 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: VanDeKoik

Post #31 is half for you.


32 posted on 01/03/2018 6:27:57 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: a fool in paradise
1) country had a thing where the “singer” would talk out the words (quickly). Think “Smoke That Cigarette” and “I’ve Been Everywhere”.

Exactly, and Bob Dylan did the same thing way before "rappers."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0

But Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash (who were great friends by the way) actually wrote amazing music, and their lyrics were not entire dung heaps of garbage (as is hip hop and rap).

33 posted on 01/03/2018 6:33:24 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Thurifer the Censer

Shame. I thought he was good in “Trouble With The Curve”.


34 posted on 01/03/2018 6:35:39 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Thurifer the Censer

What color did he use to be?


35 posted on 01/03/2018 6:54:09 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Thurifer the Censer

He’s gonna have to stop grabbing black girls’ nipples.


36 posted on 01/03/2018 7:05:20 AM PST by moovova
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To: SkyPilot

While I’ll admit that I misread that plague analogy, the rest of your post didn’t even address my original point and sounds more like someone that never even heard of the people I mentioned.

“ make no such distinction between “party” rap and “gangsta” rap because there isn’t one - it is all crap.”

Ok? That is just you being lazy. He’ll I can make the same inferences about country music and easily about rock (a bunch of degenerates talking about drinking drugs sex and money) but that doesn’t mean that those genres started out that way or are just a monolith of their worst adherants.


37 posted on 01/03/2018 7:42:32 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

Fair enough. Good post.


38 posted on 01/03/2018 4:58:59 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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