The song "Don’t Touch My Hair " by Solange Knowles helps me identify and relate to how I 've been affected by cultural appropriation.However looking at the opposite of cultural appropriation which is cultural appreciation meaning. Your time, sing.Show More `Nittle mentions in her article exactly what cultural appropriation is a “ typically involves members of a dominant group exploiting the culture of less privileged groups, often with little understanding of the latter 's history experience and traditions”().Cultural appropriation has also become relevant in public settings or functions as well. Nice word, huh? It’s a synonym for harmony. When I Get Home is a completely different story. Vogue Magazine found the song to be an uplifting message about hair, and noted how its message relates to a specific community while also being accessible and relevant to the broader community of women in general. The Huffington Post gave the song a positive review, highlighting in particular the importance of its message of praising black women’s hair during such a socially volatile period: Hair is used as a metaphor for our entire essence on this track and is the perfect symbol, as our hair is one thing that has always been policed throughout history and into the present. Pitchfork Magazine wrote that Don’t Touch My Hair moves at a heartbeat’s pulse, subtle and steady, yet vibrant and can be read as an explicit rejection of this behavior (the devalue and alienation of black spaces), as a simple establishment of boundaries, or as a powerful pledge of personal identity. Rolling Stone said the track uses sparkling synths and drowsy horns as broadsides against those who might deny Knowles and other black women their bodily autonomy, conveying a message of brutal honesty in tender and rich harmonies. When originality ~ directly connected to our true selves, to our souls ~ prevails, beware, because here is what can happen: Oh, something that is very old, but looks very contemporary or very contemporary that looks very old, it’s looking for the timeless, is something I recently heard Axel Vervoordt saying here: Now you might think that Here she goes, getting started, but ~ huh! ~ it was all there from the start.
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Or know.Īnd there’s only one Beyoncé, anyway. It’s because… Great for her that she does.Īt least, it feels so and what we feel, sometimes, is more valuable than what we see or hear. She does what she wants and it’s not just because she’s Beyoncé’s sister that she gets to do what she wants. Solange may not be the next Apple, not everyone out there has to and that doesn’t seem to be her desire anyway. Put them on paper and only after get on with the paper work or anything that feels like work.
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Don’t Touch My Hair is the ninth track on American singer and songwriter Solange Knowles’ third studio album, A Seat At The Table.Īnd things that are different, sometimes, just won’t let you do the tough paper work when working from home. Solange and the beautiful cast of dancers sway back and forth between frames, moving in soft, elegant steps with the warm harmonies and falsetto. Who would, I know… The perfect frames, the superb lighting, the sensorial choice of clothes and accessories, the unexpected, but so pleasantly found filming angles, all combined with lyrics and ~ hair ~ create a balance thanks to precisely this apparent freestyle dancing.
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In fact, they seem to not have cared for it at all. It seems like, for this video, they didn’t stress the… stiffness (?) of the video while brainstorming. When people do exactly what they feel like doing, usually, something very pretty comes out and a lot of the times, something unique, actually, does.