Kpop idols using aave doesn’t make sense

Quote from BlackpinkHouse

lol Lisa easily pulls it off, that's what an elite rapper does.

I do agree that AAVE can be super cringey if an idol cant pull it off.

However, we only have ourselves to blame. Where did these idols and labels learn about AAVE? Who has been cramming hip hop culture down everyone's throat for the past 50 years?? How many untold BILLIONS have local acts and labels made by selling hip hop culture and music and fashion to every sh*thole corner of the world?

Congratulations, America, you succeeded in growing an entire generation, maybe two generations, of foreigners who grew up idolizing everything hip hop, who have dreamt about becoming the next Tupac, Kendrick, or Rihanna. Is it truly a surprise that they want to act, dress like, and sound like their American idols??

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so it's okay to culturally appropriate because it's their dream to be like their favorite african american singer?

Quote from BlackpinkHouse

lol Lisa easily pulls it off, that's what an elite rapper does.

I do agree that AAVE can be super cringey if an idol cant pull it off.

However, we only have ourselves to blame. Where did these idols and labels learn about AAVE? Who has been cramming hip hop culture down everyone's throat for the past 50 years?? How many untold BILLIONS have local acts and labels made by selling hip hop culture and music and fashion to every sh*thole corner of the world?

Congratulations, America, you succeeded in growing an entire generation, maybe two generations, of foreigners who grew up idolizing everything hip hop, who have dreamt about becoming the next Tupac, Kendrick, or Rihanna. Is it truly a surprise that they want to act, dress like, and sound like their American idols??

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Yeah Lisa and Iggy Azalea have alot in common

I thought it's about using aave in general because if that's the case, a lot of esl/efl learners basically learn English through the internet and it's normal to pick up the same speaking habits when there's no/little formal education about the language. It can be unintentional or intentional based on the situation.

But in this case, it could be because of the writers who contributed in writing the song.

Quote from omnimorphism

I have no idea what is aave and what is not

Apparently everybody's supposed to be born with that knowledge.

Offering the perspective of someone who lives in the other side of the world, unless you interact with black American people online you probably won't know what aave is. American media doesn't exactly make the distinction or explain its significance and history. We just watch movies and music videos and hear artists speak in a certain way and think it's just a dialect that's all

Quote from melqaniejlsoo

so it's okay to culturally appropriate because it's their dream to be like their favorite african american singer?

CA is fiction.

And yes, when you sell someone your music, your fashion, and everything else associated with hip hop, you cant turn around and tell them what to do with the product you just sold them. It's patently ridiculous. As long as theyre not mocking, disrespecting, demeaning other people, they have every right to do whatever the heck they want with the product you JUST SOLD THEM.

America: Here are some "dope" shoes and chains and accessories for you.

America: BTW, you're only allowed to wear them around the house because you dont have the right skin color and DNA. You cant wear it in public, you cant use it in a MV, you cant do anything with it except stare at it in your closet. Just hand over your money and STFU.

Of course, it's actually worse than this, because nobody bothered to tell Koreans and every other country in the world that when they spent billions on these products, they werent allowed to "culturally appropriate" them.

never heard of aave until now and i doubt anyone whose native language isn't english heard of it

Quote from CherrySoda

Don't forget Jungkook "finna find my time"

i have no idea what this means xD

you all seem to have a problem with lyrics, well, idols didn't write them. for "my time" the lyricist was a black man so you file a complaint to him, why drag the idols?