Beyoncé haters are RACISTS

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8 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Perhaps in general, blue collar jobs and suchlike among the non-famous, that statement that blacks have to work harder may be true. But in the music industry? No way. Black artists have been popping up all over the place since urban music came back into fashion. I've been reviewing music as an amateur since 2012, so I observe patterns in this area all the time. Black artists routinely get a #1 single and album straight out the gate, when nobody even knows who they are. They can easily sell a million copies of their album and that's in the US alone. They all seem to get good reviews from critics as standard and nominated for days at the Grammies. They get crazy support from their labels, being allowed to make exactly the kind of music they want and release when they want. And a lot of the time, they don't even need to promote to sell. By comparison, white artists are having to work like dogs to get even a fraction of this stuff and they are under so many controls by their labels, including being forced to change and getting their albums delayed because they can't produce a #1. Every year, I see highly talented white artists not getting great reviews, not getting promoted, not getting nominated, just not getting recognised for work that is amazing meanwhile so many black artists, who are putting out some of the most mediocre, generic albums are being praised to the heavens. As is often the case, what you're told to believe and what's actually the reality are two very different things.

You may be a casual and amateur reviewer, but I'm literally studying sociology in school and currently researching black vs. white artists in music. Scholarly articles, research/surveys, that type of stuff. It ties into my music degree with sociomusicology and ethnomusicology. Black artists and people routinely have to work harder for the same recognition. 

[StrawberryBlond 14,718]

12 hours ago, PhillipBagshaw said:

You may be a casual and amateur reviewer, but I'm literally studying sociology in school and currently researching black vs. white artists in music. Scholarly articles, research/surveys, that type of stuff. It ties into my music degree with sociomusicology and ethnomusicology. Black artists and people routinely have to work harder for the same recognition. 

I studied sociology some years back, though it was different to how it is now. How are black artists having to work harder for the same recognition? They're doing so much better than white artists, usually on their very first try. There's black artists becoming famous off Soundcloud! White rappers are all one hit wonders, apart from Eminem, and most of them get very little respect and even laughed at. White artists usually have to release multiple individual singles and EPs before they even get the chance to put out an album because no label seems to want to take a chance. Every nomination for Best Video at the Grammys is by a black artist, most of them with racial messages. Black artists are some of the most all-time awarded acts in Grammy history whereas there's loads of white artists who've never won or even been nominated despite commercial and critical success. I don't know what research you're looking into, but it must be very agenda-based because if it's possible, all the evidence translates to the exact opposite of what you're saying. You may put a laugh reaction to my post all you like but just because someone isn't "studying" something through university doesn't mean their research should be scoffed at. Sociology is incredibly agenda-based these days, any attempt to make racial matters out to be worse than they are and demonise whites unnecessarily.