• @fiendishplan@lemmy.world
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    174 months ago

    I love how he wouldn’t drop it, was polite but firm in his stance and 100% right at the time MTV ignored black music.

          • HobbitFoot
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            34 months ago

            Part of the reason that New Wave became big in the early 80’s is because New Wave bands came from more affluent beginnings, so those bands could afford to make music videos at a time when they were relatively rare.

            • @Whateley@lemm.ee
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              34 months ago

              It’s true that groups like Duran Duran and the like were mostly comprised of public school brats whose affluent parents bought them the DX7s and Fairlights they wrote their hits on. However, music videos were funded by labels. They were basically commercials for the record.

              • HobbitFoot
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                24 months ago

                They became commercials for the record over time, but there was a few years in the early 80’s where labels didn’t understand a music video’s value.

            • @790@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              24 months ago

              I’d gamble a larger percentage of artists (whether music, acting, or painting) have affluent beginnings than the general population. It’s easier to rise through the struggle of a high risk profession if you have a safety net.

        • DaveyRocket
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          44 months ago

          People have trouble criticizing things they like. Fact of the matter, America is racist and if you don’t cater to racist you run the risk of “outrage” and “scandal”. Listen to the Vanilla Ice interview where he’s asked if he thinks it’s weird that he’s the face of rap…

          Woke is an insult somehow, but listen to how cringe these unaware people sound.

            • DaveyRocket
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              24 months ago

              This isn’t Bowie really saying “MTV”, he’s talking to America. Blues? Let’s let the racist Clapton represent that. Rock and Roll? Why Elvis Presley! Rap? Ice-Ice Baby!

              It isn’t that MTV is the first to do this, it’s a consistent pattern of Americans taking from a culture and then sanitizing and whitewashing it for their own profit. Of course we can always blame profits. I’m sure setting up concentrations camps is profitable too.