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I hate when people shove musicians into genres that they have no business being into based only on the color of their skin.

For example, there's an all rock, all the time radio station where I live that plays Eminem. Why? Because he's white is what I am guessing. That's the only reason why. Also on this station, the Beastie Boys pop up. Now I know they started as a punk band but the station isn't playing their punk songs. Why are they there? One could guess.

Or it really bugs me how people keep on shoving Santigold into hip-hop when she has clearly said that she is new wave/post punk. And they do this only because she is black. However, it seems the only time she gets interviews is in hip-hop magazines which drives me up the wall because the interviewers always ask for her hip-hop influences and she says she is more influenced by new wave and rattles off the likes of Devo, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Kate Bush. (For example, her song, The Keepers has Kate Bush's "Running up that hill" fingerprints all over it.)

I think it bothers me so much because it just strengthens the myth that certain genres belong only to certain races. And thus, limits people. How many potentially excellent post punk musicians could be out there but we will never hear their music because they will never pick up a guitar thinking they are the wrong color for that genre?

Oh, yeah, this has been a problem with radio for decades.

All this pretending that "rock" (which traces back to blues bands and Hendrix) is white and "soul" or "R&B" or "hip-hop" is black.

And of course, in majority white countries, some of the best soul singers are white, just because of statistics, so what can a racialist playlist do?

To be fair to the Beastie Boys they have a major following in alt and punk rock circles, at least in my experience. Eminem not so much.

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I don't know if this is dumb. Maybe it is but it still bugs me none the less...

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Re: I don't know if this is dumb. Maybe it is but it still bugs me none the less...