I wish rock had better representation than the Beatles and Rolling Stones. I was angry the year Beyonce got nominated for Rock but I can't even be mad about it now.
Except it will definitely not be ska by any stretch of the imagination, but she will say that because she's from Texas and they have the longhorns all of her music has horns in it and it'll be co-signed by Gwen Stefani and you're a racist if you don't call her the queen of ska
I just spent 10 minutes trying to find out if Beyoncé has ever been photographed wearing checkered vans and now I'm afraid that multiple Bey related shoe/foot searches have poisoned my algorithm to the point that I should just throw my phone in a wood chipper.
Pretty sure one of her tracks on Lemonade was based around a sample to the Beat's version of can't get used to losing you, so technically ska has been done.
I'd be fine with that. It would open doors for others. Can we get a ska revival summer? Like that one year when swing music blew up?
I'm feeling pretty ready to skank to songs about tuna. Maybe I can get my local band, Bob MacAdoo's Dance Party, to put on a reunion show at the Y? Church basement?
I think she has more of a lawsuit in her specifically for her partner and husband Jay-Z who y'all keep forgetting was namedropped in a Diddy lawsuit but sure keep your imaginations set to what genre her and her husband can fuck up next.
I'd be ok with it if it gave Ska a bump as a genre. Back when I was teaching, I mentioned Ska in front of a bunch of younger Gen Zs and they had no idea what it was.
It would be marketed as a history and reclamation of the genre and namedrop Prince Buster and Derrick Morgan but the sound and energy would be thoroughly Reel Big Fish third wave trash.
Beyonce reminds me of Phil Collins. A pleasant enough performer whose global success so staggeringly outmatched his talent that an actual deal with the devil is the only plausible explanation.
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Fishbone (whole band)
Aaron Barrett
Gwen Stefani
Monique Powell
https://youtu.be/074AfC9tw48?si=4B6lLAlSPCdVbwZI
I am getting a sense you’re trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill because someone doesn’t like an artist that you do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZmWGJDsBWs
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
Pick it up
On the radio
(okay, sorry, i'm done now)
🎺🎷🎷🎷🎺🎸🥁
Before it’s too late !
I'm feeling pretty ready to skank to songs about tuna. Maybe I can get my local band, Bob MacAdoo's Dance Party, to put on a reunion show at the Y? Church basement?
And if not, why?
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
#musicsky
So we'll just listen to this Whitney Houston cover:
https://youtu.be/VYYSXWn34IE