The Washington Post — owned by Jeff Bezos — ventured into country music this weekend. It did not go well because if there is one thing DC journalists know less than guns, it is country music. The Bezos Post reported, “Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs and the complicated response to
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All the left's histerics over this are actually pretty enjoyable. Don't they remember how Clapton, the Rolling Stones and other artists have shared the stage, performing with black blues artists they "stole" from - both raising their profile and their income? As you said, this is nothing new.
Methinks the DIE overlords want to destroy music as it is something that allows us to transcend this mortal coil we live upon, and speaks to our hearts and souls.
They want to put us all in claustrophobic little boxes and cut off our spirit’s oxygen.
Another good post Bentley man from Poca. I for one am fed up with the left complaining, advocating, lying, stirring up conflict and pushing their evil and wicked “diversity” and other quackery. They push their diversity but not diversity of thought, belief, etc!
One must remember that as in so many other artistic pursuits, what's permissible for blacks is not permissible for whites. As you mention, Ike and Tina Turner with, Proud Mary; and Luke Combs with, Fast Car.
This is because blacks are so talented, as Jamie Foxx told us:
"She is an artist and an individual, not some widget know only by her sex and color."
Apparently not, Brother Don - at least, per the cognoscenti and theologians of that which is currently woke.
All Jan Diehm and Jada Watson have done is demonstrate the truth of the cliché that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
"Maybe Old Neil Young should have covered Gibson’s Sweet Dreams and avoided that whole Southern Man thing."
Are you kidding? Neil Young, Canadian, was morally superior to everyone in America, and needed to make sure the rest of America knew it.
"Afrofuturist"
What in the hell is THAT?
'Complicated' has to be leftists' favourite word, the implication being that only they and others so like-minded can discuss the topic and divine the true meaning behind it.
"Heaven help DC if the American people become united again instead of diversified."
Can that happen without a revolution that throws off the globalist-funded Political Class that is the prime mover behind the effort to divide us at every opportunity?
The Bezos post screws up every story, and ought to be held to account.
Jul 17, 2023·edited Jul 17, 2023Liked by Don Surber
"Fast Car" is a universal song. That's why I, a girl born in "twanging country" and only listened to AM radio until I got old enough to buy my own "boombox" and control my own dial, am a Tracy Chapman fan and have only barely heard of Luke Combs. (I've heard his version. I like Tracy's better, but I don't care. Covers are covers.)
As for Tracy Chapman not "making it." In 1989, the year of her debut album, on which was "Fast Car," she was nominated for six Grammies and won three: best new artist, best contemporary folk album, and best female pop vocal performance. And she wasn't a one hit wonder. Over the years she would go on to be nominated ten more times, and win once more for the song "Give Me One Reason." All this is to say, Tracy Chapman arrived and is very well recognized. (And she's worth about $6 million. Not much in the music world, but more than most have.)
Finally, this point, if Chapman does indeed own the rights to "Fast Car," Luke Combs did not cover it without her permission. So basically they (a bunch of whiny white liberals) are once again assuming they know better than a "queer black woman" what is and is not in her best interests.
You nailed the whole thing in the last sentence. Bezos and his crew are clueless about different styles of music or even any appropriation of them. His main goal is the continued erosion of unity in our country. The elite really does want a divided nation and creates it by fueling racism and hatred.
I loved Chapman’s song when it first debuted all those years ago and I had no idea that she was a “black queer woman” until reading your article today. Back then, no one in the music industry felt the need to broadcast their sexual preferences to their audiences. Not mentioned is that Chapman’s music was also popular in the rock genre - I first heard it on a rock station out of DC.
To answer Margot below, I read in another article that Chapman says she is honored to have her song covered by a country star. Finally, I have a question -
Are the BLM types out there still claiming that Beethoven was black?
Buried lede: Ray Charles was color blind
In other news: The National news is breathless reporting that a city named for a mythical bird that bursts into flames is having a summer heat wave
If the great Charlie Pride was alive today, he’d love this post.
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All the left's histerics over this are actually pretty enjoyable. Don't they remember how Clapton, the Rolling Stones and other artists have shared the stage, performing with black blues artists they "stole" from - both raising their profile and their income? As you said, this is nothing new.
Methinks the DIE overlords want to destroy music as it is something that allows us to transcend this mortal coil we live upon, and speaks to our hearts and souls.
They want to put us all in claustrophobic little boxes and cut off our spirit’s oxygen.
Music defies them.
Another good post Bentley man from Poca. I for one am fed up with the left complaining, advocating, lying, stirring up conflict and pushing their evil and wicked “diversity” and other quackery. They push their diversity but not diversity of thought, belief, etc!
Arnold Ziffel (the pig) from Green Acres said more intelligent things than anything I ever read from the Washington Post.
One must remember that as in so many other artistic pursuits, what's permissible for blacks is not permissible for whites. As you mention, Ike and Tina Turner with, Proud Mary; and Luke Combs with, Fast Car.
This is because blacks are so talented, as Jamie Foxx told us:
https://youtu.be/Pl36yQZglm8
"She is an artist and an individual, not some widget know only by her sex and color."
Apparently not, Brother Don - at least, per the cognoscenti and theologians of that which is currently woke.
All Jan Diehm and Jada Watson have done is demonstrate the truth of the cliché that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
"Maybe Old Neil Young should have covered Gibson’s Sweet Dreams and avoided that whole Southern Man thing."
Are you kidding? Neil Young, Canadian, was morally superior to everyone in America, and needed to make sure the rest of America knew it.
"Afrofuturist"
What in the hell is THAT?
'Complicated' has to be leftists' favourite word, the implication being that only they and others so like-minded can discuss the topic and divine the true meaning behind it.
"Heaven help DC if the American people become united again instead of diversified."
Can that happen without a revolution that throws off the globalist-funded Political Class that is the prime mover behind the effort to divide us at every opportunity?
The Bezos post screws up every story, and ought to be held to account.
"It did not go well because if there is one thing DC journalists know less than guns, it is country music."
Peeps - You will learn a lot from Donnie Boy's script. Learn well. Great piece.
"Fast Car" is a universal song. That's why I, a girl born in "twanging country" and only listened to AM radio until I got old enough to buy my own "boombox" and control my own dial, am a Tracy Chapman fan and have only barely heard of Luke Combs. (I've heard his version. I like Tracy's better, but I don't care. Covers are covers.)
As for Tracy Chapman not "making it." In 1989, the year of her debut album, on which was "Fast Car," she was nominated for six Grammies and won three: best new artist, best contemporary folk album, and best female pop vocal performance. And she wasn't a one hit wonder. Over the years she would go on to be nominated ten more times, and win once more for the song "Give Me One Reason." All this is to say, Tracy Chapman arrived and is very well recognized. (And she's worth about $6 million. Not much in the music world, but more than most have.)
Finally, this point, if Chapman does indeed own the rights to "Fast Car," Luke Combs did not cover it without her permission. So basically they (a bunch of whiny white liberals) are once again assuming they know better than a "queer black woman" what is and is not in her best interests.
WaPo ain’t nothin but a hound dog a cryin all the time
Ain’t never caught a rabbit and
Ain’t no friend of mine.
When I read crap like this I get mad.....
"Dismissing Chapman as a “black queer woman” insults her ability to make it in folk music"
It is almost as if people who start out an introduction like that is making an excuse for why they are going to fail.
You nailed the whole thing in the last sentence. Bezos and his crew are clueless about different styles of music or even any appropriation of them. His main goal is the continued erosion of unity in our country. The elite really does want a divided nation and creates it by fueling racism and hatred.
I loved Chapman’s song when it first debuted all those years ago and I had no idea that she was a “black queer woman” until reading your article today. Back then, no one in the music industry felt the need to broadcast their sexual preferences to their audiences. Not mentioned is that Chapman’s music was also popular in the rock genre - I first heard it on a rock station out of DC.
To answer Margot below, I read in another article that Chapman says she is honored to have her song covered by a country star. Finally, I have a question -
Are the BLM types out there still claiming that Beethoven was black?
My family has a TN Cherokee branch, am partial to TN Ernie Ford….
I wonder if the Wapo asked Tracey Chapman what she thought of cashing royalty checks thanks to Luke Combs, long after stardom touched her?