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[–] 16 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

This scenario has happened so many zillion times it's not the least bit astounding - something becomes popular with a group of people, then another group and another, in spite of some people hating it or sometimes because of that, and the business world figures out how to make money off it.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Take country music, for example, and all the black parents who were afraid of it, but the black kids who loved it. /s

    The trend is fetishizing black culture; music is just a part of that.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    or, you know, black culture has been very prolific and makes good art so it appeals to a lot of people. I think calling it fetishizing is a bit insulting to the counter itself; as if it doesn't have its own merit.

    dominating the art scene had been historically true of a lot of minorities in various countries. I guess art is one thing you can't take away from people easily.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think it is fetishizing when you systemically oppress black people but coopt their art.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    that's appropriation, and black people themselves are fetishized, but I don't know if that's appropriate to say about the culture.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The black people are being farmed for cash by the executives and stockholders.

    "The Black Youth" were motivated to buy a whole new identity to relate to country. They are taking back something from white people. Buy buying the things to make them look country.

    Things that were lacking buyers from traditional demographics because they had always been country. Now those companies have more people to sell to. Same owners tho.

    That's the key fetish. Money.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah my point is that thinking of it as fetishizing black culture is a very narrow view of a much more universal human behavior, where people like whatever they like without bothering to filter it by who found out about it first, and business people maks a buck out of any and every trend no matter where it came from.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What you're saying just isn't true, though, or at least doesn't explain the sheer fascination of contemporary white americans with mimicking every aspect of black culture

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