Posted on 07/14/2023 8:03:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How's this for a fake controversy generated by wokester identity-politics fanatics?
A top country music star named Luke Combs pulled in a number one hit by singing the 1988 song of a black female folk singer named Tracy Chapman, and instead of celebrate that happy revival,, the radical left is out complaining,
True to form, the Washington Post has created a fake controversy by quoting a malcontent:
To quite a few people, this is cause for yet another celebration in Combs’s whirlwind journey as the genre’s reigning megastar with 16 consecutive No. 1 hits. But it has also prompted a wave of complicated feelings among some listeners and in the Nashville music community. Although many are thrilled to see “Fast Car” back in the spotlight and a new generation discovering Chapman’s work, it’s clouded by the fact that, as a Black queer woman, Chapman, 59, would have almost zero chance of that achievement herself in country music.
Really? The song certainly did pretty well when Chapman sang it in 1988, reaching number 6 on the Billboard charts.
But here's the important thing: Chapman's not a country musician. Combs is, and through his own talents he brought her song into the country genre. It didn't do that on its own. When Chapman's song was released in 1988, it was played on new age stations of the era where it did very well.
So to claim that Chapman was somehow repressed in the country-music scene is absurd. Is symphony music also being repressed on the country music scene? By these complainers' logic, it certainly is.
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Its a stupid controversy. The woke are communists who only seek to divide and destroy
folk and country are nearly the same genre. Certainly people think there is a difference between the present glam of Nashville and original folk or bluegrass artists - but they certainly had the same roots in American music.
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All leftism is a lie. Spawned by the great deceiver.
The Left is always looking for someone or something to vilify. Hyper focused on opportunity to claim it’s racism, it’s homophobia, it’s whatever... What a miserable existence. Sad and pathetic.
Disliked the song then. Dislike it now.
Anybody ask Tracy Chapman how she feels? The more records sell the more money she makes, assuming she wrote the song, which I suppose she did.
People get annoyed about these things sometimes. Forget who the guy was (Otis Redding?) who first sang R.E.S.P.E.C.T., he’s quoted as saying Aretha Franklin “stole my song”, which in a way she did.
Don’t know how Bob Dylan feels about Jimi Hendrix’s version of “All Along the Watchtower”, but Hendrix’s version is vastly superior. I’ve also always thought Rod Stewart’s version of “Forever Young” (also Dylan’s) is definitive.
And Nina Simone was very annoyed about Eric Burdon and the Animal’s hit with “I’m Just a Soul Whose Intentions are Good” but it’s pretty perfect. And, tbh, that song makes more sense coming from a man. (No offense to Ms. Simone!)
These are ALL GREAT SONGS, those that wrote them and all who sang them deserve our appreciation. And the list could go on and on.
Vida brevis, Ars longa - Life is short, Art is long.
She congratulated him. She is the sole writer of the song, so she gets all the song writer and publisher's royalties from it, as she owns the rights to both.
He should publicly moon them. He’d sell a million records.
“Hey woke idiots!” (turning around and dropping trou) “Kiss this!”
Great, thanks for that update!
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