Quote Originally Posted by SwadTheFrog View Post
Hey, join the club man. I'm a South American and I've had people trying to explain to me how "ackshually, DT 100% represents latino culture and voices well by using american VAs from LA and tacos". Now you get to be black and be told by white americans that an apple is infact an orange! Feels great, eh?
Oh yeah, it feels wonderful. :')

As someone who has attended black Southern Baptist churches from birth to adulthood, I can tell you straight up that Smile is not "Black gospel music". At least, not the traditional gospel music that is unique to black Southern Baptists.

Like, just say it sounds like gospel music, Sena. There's no reason to bring race into this.

Quote Originally Posted by SwadTheFrog View Post
So. That's NOT BLACK GOSPEL, simply put. Black Gospel is religious music that has certain particularities to it that define it as such - choruses are one of them, but there's a lot of others and I'm no music expert to give you details. But what I *can* give you is that there IS a MMO credits song made by the Japanese that basically does use Black Gospel and it's pretty great.

https://youtu.be/6nW7nqHZ7OM?si=4_WUGdXDIVcml8zF

Compare that to Smile, and you'll see that it DOES NOT LINE UP. Smile is superficially similar to christian gospel music in the most base of senses, and is far more of just a disney song than aything else.
Oh, super cool! Thanks for sharing this song.