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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock
This guy is just trying to ride off Lenny Henry's comment.
The thing is you can't force black people to attend the venue if they don't want to, and if there's not enough black people wanting to sing Rock or Indie Music (the two primary Music genres at Glastonbury) then they're not gonna perform there, it's honestly not that deep.  |
That’s really all it boils down to, Mock. If Burna Boy, Stormzy and Rihanna were in every year’s line-up it would be different but that’s not traditionally the case and in reality only a certain (if somewhat sizeable) proportion of black Brits like indie music that much.
The one that even gives me the most beef is the black people who criticise certain festivals for being too white but coconut/Oreo the hell out of black people who do choose to listen to the type of music most-stanned at those places, even when it’s not actually at the expense of R&B/hip-hop.
As far as I can tell this is just a demographic-preference thingy. If you like, go and listen to Manic Street Preachers and James Blunt. If you don’t like, go to Oye or down Spotify R&B-lane instead. In that sense England’s a totally free country.