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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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valid riots (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Whitewashing is precisely why his music is seen as stoner-feel-good-vibes and not the fiery protest music it was.

Well, I'd say that has more to do with music sensibility. His music used slow tempo, heavy and steady beats, was bass-driven, and melodic vocals. That isn't angry music for a western audience. Going back centuries, angry western music is fast paced, unsteady rhythms, big changes in volume, discordant sounds and lots of high frequencies.

It's not whitewashing. It would be very hard to make an angry protest song set to a waltz beat too. The medium is the message, and the medium of steady droning beats is calmness not anger.