Posts by ladidaladidadida
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So... AiScream has been in my ears nonstop since this. Anyone else?
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Rosé didn't open their concert, she just sang apt as a guest and that's it
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Sorry, this just fundamentally is untrue. On the positive side, appropriation can be appreciation, AND, on the negative side, appropriation can be exploitation.
The word itself--appropriation--is innocent and simply signifies taking something that is distant from you and bringing it into your orbit, or more simply to take as one's own. As a theoretical issue, it's ancient and been re-hatched over and over again, and it is not a novel concept. A neutral example, an author appropriates elements of language and concepts and literary forms that (s)he did not invent. As a form of resistance, appropriating from a place outside of your own or outside of yourself has at times been acts of subversion, allowing the appropriator to get out from under the issue of power, one that could, say include, being presented certain "truths" by those who get to decide what the truth it and dictate it to others. By appropriating ideas from the outside, you can be prompted to think and act differently and reconstruct the mentality of the population around you.
Appropriation, as an innocent term, is a natural part of being human. Taking something from outside of yourself, opening yourself up to it, and making it your own.
HOWEVER, there are of course problematic, harmful forms of appropriation. What kinds of appropriation are exploitative versus kinds that are inspirational? We are living a world in which almost every part of it has the effects of colonialism baked into the very fabric. If you are of a disadvantaged community, one that lacks land, business, political, socioeconomic power, but rich in cultural property if you will--tradition, craft, dialect, what have you, and your culture is not only stolen but misused, this is exploitative.
Yes but if it were appropriating, they would use that black art form in a disrespectful manner.
Quoting my previous reply. This is not true. Appropriation is a neutral term, though true it carries a negative connotation these days, and, INDEED, there are exploitative, harmful forms of appropriation that we are rightfully calling out.
LSFM adopting a black art form to their benefit is appropriation (i.e., taking something distant from you, bringing it into your orbit, making it your own). People may disagree on whether or not that form of appropriation is disrespectful or harmful. But neutrally, it is by definition an example of appropriation.
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I think it by definition is a form of appropriation. They are adopting for their own benefit a black art form, no?
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Can't really do both, it's one or the other. Being inspired isn't inherently appropriation
Sorry, this just fundamentally is untrue. On the positive side, appropriation can be appreciation, AND, on the negative side, appropriation can be exploitation.
The word itself--appropriation--is innocent and simply signifies taking something that is distant from you and bringing it into your orbit, or more simply to take as one's own. As a theoretical issue, it's ancient and been re-hatched over and over again, and it is not a novel concept. A neutral example, an author appropriates elements of language and concepts and literary forms that (s)he did not invent. As a form of resistance, appropriating from a place outside of your own or outside of yourself has at times been acts of subversion, allowing the appropriator to get out from under the issue of power, one that could, say include, being presented certain "truths" by those who get to decide what the truth it and dictate it to others. By appropriating ideas from the outside, you can be prompted to think and act differently and reconstruct the mentality of the population around you.
Appropriation, as an innocent term, is a natural part of being human. Taking something from outside of yourself, opening yourself up to it, and making it your own.
HOWEVER, there are of course problematic, harmful forms of appropriation. What kinds of appropriation are exploitative versus kinds that are inspirational? We are living a world in which almost every part of it has the effects of colonialism baked into the very fabric. If you are of a disadvantaged community, one that lacks land, business, political, socioeconomic power, but rich in cultural property if you will--tradition, craft, dialect, what have you, and your culture is not only stolen but misused, this is exploitative.
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Answering your question directed to me...
Afro beats
From the kpopnoir community on RedditExplore this post and more from the kpopnoir communitywww.reddit.comAnd voguing
But like I said with the latter example, LSFM included POC voguers in their music video to give credit where it's due, so, it's appropriation with appreciation and NOT mockery
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The issue with cultural appropriation (and I am thinking of Kpop appropriating the sounds and styles of '90s/Y2K R&B) is it does the taking but then does this shit, mocking the very people responsible for providing the content to be appropriated. So, hard no for Kiss of Life here. Damn.
LSFM has appropriated. HOWEVA, they brought in POC voguers and danced alongside them in their MV for Crazy. So, I was like, nice. They're giving credit where credit is due.
And I'll give SK ppl a pass on what I demand of US ppl in cultural appropriation, which AT TIMES can involve taking the content, mocking the ppl and then on top of that a blind ignorance to the very reason why such a culture arose in the first place (i.e., slavery, segregation, isolation, redlining, etc.). AAVE exists because of historical reasons. May be fun to use the words but if you ain't caring about these other real world implications and sociopolitics, then STFU (but this is what I demand of US ppl and not SK ppl as they don't share that history).
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How do they survive? Does the company pay their rent and food and then add to their already existing debt?
Corrupt and exploitative, for sure.
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These are fireee
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Haha I like it. NJZ doing what it does really well, which is prompting nostalgic feeling. This commercial is very 90s coded, and when that saxophone hits, I'm transported to a world of Mentos commercials.
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And the mics are onnnn tahnight.
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Lololol... I was thinking, oh, damn, these tickets are cheap... Then got to the comments.
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