Let me expand. While Kendrick put together an amazing show, it’s still just that, a show.
We’ve had almost 30 years of media that “tells it like it is” starting with the likes of South Park and Family Guy. Things have only gotten worse.
As much as it was cool, I put this up there with performative protests like wearing pussy hats.
Kendrick might be right that “They Not Like Us” but he’s also not like us and has the financial ability to put his money where his mouth is and do a lot more than just a flashy, glitzy televised protest.
He’s wrong, the revolution will not be televised, because what he did isn’t the kind of shit that starts revolutions. So tired of jerking off these fucking media savvy jackholes for doing bare minimum.
I don’t see Kendrick funding legal battles with the Trump administration, make of that what you will, but it’s why I kind of see it as pointless, frivolous, and out-of-focus. (Maybe he’s doing it but not publicizing it?)
In the end, entertainers are capitalists and they don’t want the system as it is to really change.
If it’s not gonna change shit, seriously, who cares? Drake will literally be fine, the rest of us won’t be.
Kendrick would probably agree that this changes nothing. He’s not a revolutionary, but a humble artist doing what he can. He’s not suing the Trump administration (less than a month in) because he’s probably looking to fight the battles that matter most to him. He’s not a messiah, but who should expect that of him?
I just appreciate that he tried his best to avoid the beef being mutually beneficial for both him and Drake. That’s what Drake was expecting, as beefs are usually just a cynical business venture. Instead, he tried his best to do actual damage to Drake, which is seriously refreshing.
Answer: Black people. People of color. And you should care too.
Analysis of the performance as just an extended diss on Drake is shortsighted at best. The Drake beef is only the exterior veneer of a much more nuanced and symbolic work expressing race, culture, and economics in America. For a deeper analysis see: https://www.tiktok.com/@toureshow/video/7469843075863579950 (apologies for the TikTok link but it’s a very good one)
Wow okay what a way to engage with the cultural significance and the molding potential inherent to art. Given how quickly you commented back, did you even watch the video?
Let me clarify: Your original comment is valuable but I felt it missed some nuance, specifically as to how it may foster and bolster solidarity. So I brought to the table new analysis of the media and why it has more cultural significance than perhaps any super bowl performance, ever.
In your response you exhibit neither a desire to hear nor understand and that is disappointing and frankly disrespectful. :(
I watched the performance. I’m not an idiot, I understood the subtext.
We’re literally in a Constituional Crisis and on the verge of the nation falling apart.
This does nothing to change that. There’s bigger fish to fry. This was an event sponsored by Apple, who famously told Jon Stewart he had to stop the rabble rousing. Tim Cook is literally busy kissing Trump’s ring. This is bread and circuses, my friend. Black capitalism isn’t going to save us.
Like I said, it was a great show. But that’s all it was: a show. It changes absolutely nothing about the direction in which we are headed. I also made clear I knew this would be an unpopular opinion.
I watched the performance. I’m not an idiot, I understood the subtext.
Not the performance. The video. The link I sent you. The one two comments above.
Whatever. I thought this could be a nice conversation about building solidarity and mutual support in media but you ruined it by bringing it back to the same three talking points that are already beat to death on every social media feed. Have a good one. :(
about building solidarity and mutual support in media
Because you can’t do that in corporate media, sorry. It’s a fools errand. I worked in news production for 10 years, ask me how I know. I’m not trying to be rude, but it’s just not a path forward.
The Spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relationship among people, mediated by images.
Unpopular Opinion: Who cares?
Let me expand. While Kendrick put together an amazing show, it’s still just that, a show.
We’ve had almost 30 years of media that “tells it like it is” starting with the likes of South Park and Family Guy. Things have only gotten worse.
As much as it was cool, I put this up there with performative protests like wearing pussy hats.
Kendrick might be right that “They Not Like Us” but he’s also not like us and has the financial ability to put his money where his mouth is and do a lot more than just a flashy, glitzy televised protest.
He’s wrong, the revolution will not be televised, because what he did isn’t the kind of shit that starts revolutions. So tired of jerking off these fucking media savvy jackholes for doing bare minimum.
I don’t see Kendrick funding legal battles with the Trump administration, make of that what you will, but it’s why I kind of see it as pointless, frivolous, and out-of-focus. (Maybe he’s doing it but not publicizing it?)
In the end, entertainers are capitalists and they don’t want the system as it is to really change.
If it’s not gonna change shit, seriously, who cares? Drake will literally be fine, the rest of us won’t be.
Kendrick would probably agree that this changes nothing. He’s not a revolutionary, but a humble artist doing what he can. He’s not suing the Trump administration (less than a month in) because he’s probably looking to fight the battles that matter most to him. He’s not a messiah, but who should expect that of him?
I just appreciate that he tried his best to avoid the beef being mutually beneficial for both him and Drake. That’s what Drake was expecting, as beefs are usually just a cynical business venture. Instead, he tried his best to do actual damage to Drake, which is seriously refreshing.
Answer: Black people. People of color. And you should care too.
Analysis of the performance as just an extended diss on Drake is shortsighted at best. The Drake beef is only the exterior veneer of a much more nuanced and symbolic work expressing race, culture, and economics in America. For a deeper analysis see: https://www.tiktok.com/@toureshow/video/7469843075863579950 (apologies for the TikTok link but it’s a very good one)
Like I said, it was an amazing show.
That doesn’t mean it’s gonna change fuck-all.
Wow okay what a way to engage with the cultural significance and the molding potential inherent to art. Given how quickly you commented back, did you even watch the video?
Let me clarify: Your original comment is valuable but I felt it missed some nuance, specifically as to how it may foster and bolster solidarity. So I brought to the table new analysis of the media and why it has more cultural significance than perhaps any super bowl performance, ever.
In your response you exhibit neither a desire to hear nor understand and that is disappointing and frankly disrespectful. :(
I watched the performance. I’m not an idiot, I understood the subtext.
We’re literally in a Constituional Crisis and on the verge of the nation falling apart.
This does nothing to change that. There’s bigger fish to fry. This was an event sponsored by Apple, who famously told Jon Stewart he had to stop the rabble rousing. Tim Cook is literally busy kissing Trump’s ring. This is bread and circuses, my friend. Black capitalism isn’t going to save us.
Like I said, it was a great show. But that’s all it was: a show. It changes absolutely nothing about the direction in which we are headed. I also made clear I knew this would be an unpopular opinion.
Not the performance. The video. The link I sent you. The one two comments above.
Whatever. I thought this could be a nice conversation about building solidarity and mutual support in media but you ruined it by bringing it back to the same three talking points that are already beat to death on every social media feed. Have a good one. :(
Because you can’t do that in corporate media, sorry. It’s a fools errand. I worked in news production for 10 years, ask me how I know. I’m not trying to be rude, but it’s just not a path forward.
They meant they thought they could have a nice conversation with another person, you in this instance, instead of an argument.