#turbofolk

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Jelena Karleuša

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Balkan turbofolk

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it rubs me the wrong way when certain people have a negative stance towards turbo folk music... don't get me wrong, it's pretty bad with its glorification of wealth, violence, (and in the past, even war crimes), opulence, misogyny, drug abuse and so on, but a) it's a genre that encompasses a fuckton of songs and a lot of them don't have any of these issues, and b) i can't brush off the feeling that the disdain and elitism towards it stem from white supremacy. while a huge portion of turbo folk artists are white (although Rroma singers such as Džej, Zorica Brunclik or Ljuba Aličić are/were rather prominent in the genre and defined the genre in many ways), the melodies themselves aren't really, as they borrowed from Turkish, Arabic and Rroma traditional music (the Slavic element is a minor factor here). many people refer to Balkan turbo folk music as "radio Tehran", in a derogatory fashion, being blatantly racist. such statements are often uttered by people who love to pretend they are hippies and oh-so-very progressive.

turbo folk music has a terrible history, tied to the Yugoslav war which absolutely should be scorned and criticized, along with artists who did deplorable things in the 90s and are still rather popular (Svetlana Ceca Ražnatović), but let us not pretend that everyone who despises such music does it for a good reason.