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[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 2/ and find out that a Canadian person sings it or stars in it - but I feel that Canadians are not in desperate need of Canadian culture being boosted into the mainstream as what they were in 1971. We have a plethora of amazing artists already

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 1/ I swear I have said this more times than I ever have in my life BUT: everything in subjective. I, personally, do not feel as though there is a need for a quota on Canadian content and how much of is produced - sure, it is nice to watch a show or listen to a song

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 3/ is the way to go about that. though autotune is easily accessible for artists to use live! music is ever-changing with the era or decade it is representing. music is our own personal time capsule. and i believe it should be appreciated in any, and every, form!

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 2/ and a "good singer" is indistinguishable. if autotune helps an artist gain popularity and make the music that their audience likes, i believe that there is not anything wrong with it. now, whether it is harder to replicate live is another thing and if cover bands

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 1/ I believe Wald is right in some ways, but like everything, I believe this topic is subjective (as music is subjective) i believe that technology like autotune and sampling creates a broader range of music to listen to. and that the concept of a "bad singer" and a

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 3/ just as an aside: i know i mainly focused on black artists on this post (just thinking about the 1950s/1960s here) BUT this applies to ALL POC artists !!!!! when white middle-class teens started covering these songs, they came off disingenuous!! and disinterested

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 2/ covering black artists' music without researching the cultural connections that a certain song has to black marginalized communities and/or at the very least openly crediting the artist it came from or using their privilege to shine more light on black artists

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 1/ i believe that any and all music can be valued (especially covers, as they are another artist's rendition of someone else's art and it is so interesting to see!) at some level of another. however, a line does get drawn (for me, and many others) at white artists

[courtney boland @chboland1]

@Mspuddicombe this!!! most definitely!!!!!

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 3/ I also remember reading that American rapper Kayne West (no, I'm not calling him Ye lol) sampled Charles' "I've Got A Woman" for his 2005 song "Gold Digger"!!! Very interesting

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS I believe Ray Charles used the "breaking voice" technique to portray a certain vulnerability in his songs. I believe it's his way of, not just singing a song like "I've Got A Woman" and "Georgia in My Mind" (for example), but actually feeling every emotion that the 1/

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 2/ song portrays. Charles was an electric and passionate performer and I believe that the "breaking voice" vocal technique was used as a result of Charles truly feeling what he was singing

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS it was strange to me, as an avid music listener/enjoyer, it became rather odd to have your socioeconomic identity shaped by if you listened to music via earphone with or without a cord!!! It didn't change the music you were listening to!

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS as silly as this one may sound, I believe that with the release of AirPods back in 2016 (when I looked up the date they were released, I gasped too, don't worry 😂people soon looked down on others who either 1) could not afford them or 2) didn't like them!!.

[courtney boland @chboland1]

@Rpomeroy13 definitely! I believe that really is a "false need" in today's entertainment industry, trying to bring a 17-year-old girl on tiktok down for making a song with autotune and saying "talent is dead" is something no one NEEDS to chime in on!!!

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS I believe that the "false needs" advertised in music today advocate for the "lack" of talent - "it seems as though anyone can make a song" - this (in my opinion) is not true and ties in directly with stuff being "dumbed down", which i also do not believe to be true. 1/

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 3/ less talented than the other. they are respected in their own genres. this idea that you don't need talent to be famous anymore is simply not true in my eyes... music can be made and appreciated in any and all forms. through tiktok or through CDs.

[courtney boland @chboland1]

#W23POPMUS 2/ i have always felt that music ia subjective... not one form is better than another, just like not one musician is more talented than another. to compare someone like clapton vs clarkson and talk about "talent" is comparing apples and oranges. neither is more or