Over the holiday weekend Neo-Soul singer India Arie voiced her discomfort with Essence Fest showcasing overly sexualized performances, naming Janelle Monaé and Megan Thee Stallion as her examples [click
here if you missed that].
India clarifies her statements...
12 comments:
I agree with India. But I stop reading it about a mile up. One thing ALL women have in common is that cackling mouth. Cackle on you Chickens.
The stuff that those ladies did on stage belong in a strip club not a concert. India is correct.
Stand strong Ms. Arie. Morals will be back. The bottom card be to much farther.
India you don't have to explain yourself, those of us who value our culture's image, are also tired of the whore and gang banger killers in music culture. What ever happened to real talent? The majority of the music being pushed on the youth, is vapid, empty and detrimental. Our Nubian race went from Sumerian's, Babylonian, Kemetic Godz to this trash. Most of us are tired of the filth.
Spellcheck, please?
This is why I don't get into these current artists. All twerking and gyrating and no real substance.
India said what she said and I'm not mad about it. There was no need to write a dissertation about it.
Whoever posted to the official Essence social media pages should be fired. You gonna post that?!!! Everything don’t need to be on Instagram.
Enough is ENOUGH, let the talent speak for itself. Why or how, mature black folks aren't Speaking Up, is disgraceful. Meanwhile, other race's, are enjoying this buffoonery, because it benifits them!
I agreed with India's initial message but her response seems immature and all over the place. Say what you need to say and stand on it. If you're on your grown woman ish, you would not be giving an eff if anyone doesn't agree.
I’m here for India all day erryday. Yes, she overcompensated her follow-up but I hear her loudly and clearly.
I think it’s funny how women’s clothes are so revealing but men’s clothes hide ERRYTHING. Men don’t wear clothes that show what size package they have but women’s clothes show errything from the size of our breasts to the shape of our derrière.
And yes, I wear suits and dresses that show the size of my breasts and the shape of my backside, but women don’t have a choice. No matter what we wear, someone can size us up immediately. Wish I could do that with men.
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I understand where India is coming from, but, we have to collectively set our own standards, and not from a eurocentric/puritanical perspective; too often, black ppl mimic the standards set by conservative yt ppl, instead of creating a standard that supports our heritage, history, and cultural identity. The problem that I have with India - & other black women who think like her - is that, they only want to police aspects of the black American culture that directly impacts male gaze and attention; they never have this same type of energy when it comes to gatekeeping blackness - our history , our culture, our heritage, our music- from non-blks (Hispanics, Jews, Asians, Arabs etc), rejecting colorism and disrespect from black men (& other non -blk groups like Hispanics/non-blk women) in black culture and black music; black women are too consumed with male attention (scantily clad dress, twerking etc) instead of maintaining the most important aspects of the black American experience - unity, self-love, and understanding our history and identity.
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