As a strong black woman, I'm kind of pissed that we lost all those talented female lyricists and R&B singers who got Thanos snapped out of existence in the late 90s because they didn't want to sell sex. It makes me want to slap a bitch for calling it "empowerment"...

At least my inner black woman is angry af because of that.

The music industry is garbage, pure garbage. Sony and Universal execs have a special place in hell.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

all those talented female lyricists and R&B singers who got Thanos snapped out of existence in the late 90s because they didn't want to sell sex

I dont know much about 90s music😅, could you please share some of those lyricists and singers (or suggest any of their songs)? I'm interested in listening to some of their songs :)

Kinda sad that I wasn't much aware of this issue..

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago (6 children)

...I can't. You can find them on various features, with among others De La Soul, but the point is they left. You'd have to amass the amount of hip-hop music that I have and draw a timeline where you can see them being phased out.

It's around the time LL Cool J turned into a sex symbol and when De La had to "add some badass to perlong their life over the drum."

One of these days I want to do the whole research route, but just so I can juxtapose it to country - which also suffered the same fate, only a half a century earlier.

Capitalism is a slow crawl to mediocrity and exploitation. No culture can really survive it.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Aw, thank you for your help

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