IR in Music Videos thread

Yeah, I understand that but a lot of the times when it comes to music videos the artist have the power and say so.

 

She always seemed Egyptian or something to me...some Middle East extraction...what do I know

 

Start that thread. I look forward of those videos.

 

This is the thread. That post you quoted was the OP of the "IR in music videos thread" thread I originally created earlier this month. It looks like my thread was merged with an older similar thread.

 

She is from Kosovo and her parents are Albanian. Some of those South Eastern European Balkan states have people that look a bit racially ambiguous. Ora has said people often think she is black.

 

As something to note, there's a reason a lot of white supremacists don't consider easten europeans & southern europeans white. They're often more racially ambiguous. The chicks in that Migos' "T-Shirt" music video I posted in this thread are a good example.

 

Not sure if it's been done before, but howsabout a thread of music that explores the IR theme?

Here's an interesting hip hop vid I stumbled across recently. I kinda like the sound because I like hip hop that borrows from jazz... and the lyrics get into the IR stuff...

Some of the youtube comments say the song is "coonin'" -- maybe because of the "fried chicken" theme? Well, at least it's interesting, unlike the "mumble rap" stuff about gangbanging and all the other unoriginal "gangster" shit the kiddies seem to be hooked on these days. Plus the dude doesn't have a tattoo on his face, so that's a plus...



Any others?

 

There was a music video by jazz vocalists The Manhattan Transfer that featured one of the female vocalists embracing a muscular black man wearing an open shirt. The singer is Cheryl Bentyne. I don't remember the song but I do remember that video.

 

Interesting video. Peppy tune. My only gripe is that Charlie Curtis-Beard didn't have to defend his choice, even in song. He should've just rolled with it. Just saying.

 

Madonna made a controversy in her Like a Prayer video with a black Jesus figure.

 

The garbage that passes for music never ceases to amaze.

Dear Lord.

 

@Tamstrong You wanna go ahead & move this thread to the "In the Media" subforum and merge it with the "IR in Music Videos" thread?: http://www.whitewomenblackmen.com/forum/threads/ir-in-music-videos-thread.29423/

This thread basically has the same exact premise.

 

I actually kinda intended the thread to be about music that has overt commentary about interracial relationships (rather than just featuring couples interacting interracially), but I don't mind the thread merger.

On that note, I bring you "Suzy Wong"... Not sure what it means, but it's overt commentary on an interracial relationship... Any others?

 

Suzy Wong is a character in the novel The World of Suzy Wong. It became a stage play with France Nguyen and William Shatner in 1958. In 1960, it became a movie with Nancy Kwan and William Holden. Suzy Wong was the archetypal "woman with a heart of gold." Suzy was a prostitute in Hong Kong. She has a relationship with a British man working in the foreign service. It was even made into a ballet.

Lou Rawls sang a song called Groovy People and mentions Suzy Wong.

 

That was true. But the controversy was not only because she kisses a black man who is a Christ figure, it was to say that Jesus was described as a black man and Madonna giving him praise and love. Fundamentalist Christian groups had a fit.

 

I wasn't feeling it. It reminded me of 2 Live Crews' Pop That Coochie video. The uncensored version was like this. It all seems typical in rap music videos.

 

Found a Behind the Scenes featuretre for this music video:

 

Demi Lovato - Tell Me You Love Me (Teaser)



She'll be releasing the full video today.

I features Jesse Williams as her love interest.