Along with the usual decrying of this person's bigotry, I also have to say....Black music is MISERABLE?
You can't get more awesome, melodic, groovy, soulful, toe-tapping, hip-shakin', totally faboo than BLACK MUSIC!
Isn't that one of the usual "black" stereotypes, that blacks are awesomely groovy musical-people?
Miserable?!
I haven't seen the ad in question since I'm a "Yank" who happens to live "across the pond"....but black music....wherever it may come from....is not "durgey" and "miserable"....
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....and even when it is expressing absolute misery, it does so in such a way that you still somehow find yourself tapping your toes!....
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...."Yup. The lyrics are angry, grim and often super-vulgar....but I can't help but get up and dance!"
You should see me when I happen to hear "White Lines". A dramatic anti-drug song about the horrors of the cocaine trade has never been more fun to listen to. I become a complete idiot. GRANDMASTER FLASH, WHY MUST YOU BE SO CATCHY?!
(Nostalgia's also a part of it. Gosh; I miss the 80's....)
Anyhoo....
Dear anti-black bigot person from Britain....I think you're totally "barmy"! Please drink the contents of the Worst Toilet In Scotland. Thank you.
Can blacks be miserable? Of course! It's a human trait. But I still find this person's use of "miserable" kind of odd.