Ariana Grande is darkening her skin and changing her features to look Racially Ambiguous to sell to a wider audience and it needs to be addressed
Black people, who invented hip-hop, jazz, and rock and roll, have long been tastemakers of American cool. In many ways, fashion, music, and slang are dictated by black people no matter how little credit they get for it..
In fact:
“Our research shows that black consumer choices have a ‘cool factor’ that has created a halo effect, influencing not just consumers of color but the mainstream as well,” said Cheryl Grace, senior vice president of U.S. Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement, Nielsen.
Thus, presumably, if you want to be cool and sell records, you ought to start acting black. In fact, it’s great if you’re not black and act black because you get the benefits of being cool without the baggage and limitations of being subjected to racism.
Its what the Kardashians, Iggy, Justin Bieber, Ariana, and alot of other celebrities do in order to rise in popularity as well as be accepted into the black community.
Grande’s music is largely influenced by hip-hop and R&B, meaning that in order to build a fanbase, she needs to court listeners (ahem, black folk) with those musical preferences. Grande, who is quick to shut down any perceptions about her ethnicity being anything but Italian. Most people presume Grande is Latinx, not necessarily black, when mistaking her race, but I am here to tell you, most Latinos are part black, sis.
Thus, for years, Latinx women have been sounding the alarm: Grande is doing brown face. Look at her tan!! Look at how she speaks! Look at her music!
The point is: Most of us don’t get to pick and choose which parts of blackness we get to have — only white folks seem to have that luxury. And we need to give her the SAME ENERGY we give the kardashians.
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For the longest time I thought she was Latina lmao
Damn, thought she was Latina ..smh
So… I came back from the dead to share this.
I am honestly so sick of people. First of all tanning your skin is NOT brown skin. I have fair skin and personally, hate the sun. I try to avoid it as much as possible (irrelevant) but I still manage to tan darker because of my European background. Some people just get a lot darker while tanning.
Secondly, she has always acted/talked like that. she is definitely more confident now but I’m sure she was raised around people that acted and spoke like that. Lastly, y’all are complaining about her POP music? Everyone likes pop, everyone sings pop, and it sure as hell is not made and labeled for a specific culture or race. In conclusion, get your priorities straight and stop complaining about people that aren’t doing anything wrong.
