someone was paid by big HR to drop that coffee tweet and distract from the fact that jobs are fucking you sideways regardless of an iced mocha and it worked cuz many of you have no spine
Tinashe on the genre of pop:
"People have a very narrow understanding of what pop means nowadays, and it’s very clean, it’s very mainstream, it’s very white, and it’s very contrived...It’s nice to question that."
Interview:
https://t.co/Didwa6pgOw
It’s not just black pop stars too. They do it for every damn space black people are in, they do it for acting, academia, politics, reality shows. Everyone blk person must be perfect, it’s actually crazy.
“Is Tyla Black?”
“Chloe Bailey is too sexual”
“Ayra Starr is too African”
“Tems is cosplaying RNB”
“Olivia Dean makes H&M music”
“PinkPantheress stay whisperin”
“Tinashe still making music?”
“Fka twigs weird asf and too alt”
“Mariah The Scientist can’t sing”
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by private equity
Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list https://t.co/hEwu1ckDqZ