With Apologies to Sena Bryer

[Ashpd]

Holy. Mother. Of God.
Welp, PR disaster at most

[Aniise]

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

No there isn't. Every sane person knows. But without bringing race into it, how could she call everyone not liking the song or the use of the song a racist?

She just needed a dumb reason to incite more unnecessary drama. This is a true PR nightmare.

[ZephyrMenodora]

To me I don't even care if Smile is black gospel or not. I don't like Smile because it sounds Disney to me. This is the first time out of every discussion I've seen about Smile that race was brought into the discussion.

I'm not about to do a 180 and pretend I like the song now.

[SwadTheFrog]

To me I don't even care. I don't like Smile because it sounds Disney to me. This is the first time out of every discussion I've seen about Smile that race was brought into the discussion.

I'm not about to do a 180 and pretend I like the song now.

...I'm-
I'm talking about Brigther Day. The PSU song.
That's what I linked. Not Smile. My guy, reading comprehension. I don't like Smile Either.

Five seconds in, and I can already tell you it's Black gospel inspired. I'm not a music expert myself, but there's a unique style present in this particular genre of gospel that I don't find in other subgenres. I don't know how to explain it properly.

Short answer: yeah, it's Black gospel inspired. :3

Appreciated, just wanted the take from someone that knows more than me!

[ronibosch]

I'm glad you like it! As I'm not as much of an expert, could you please confirm to me if this is actually Black Gospel inspired?

Five seconds in, and I can already tell you it's Black gospel inspired. I'm not a music expert myself, but there's a unique style present in this particular genre of gospel that I don't find in other subgenres. I don't know how to explain it properly.

Short answer: yeah, it's Black gospel inspired. :3

Appreciated, just wanted the take from someone that knows more than me!

You're welcome! I appreciate you asking for my insight.

[Lorika]

This is a true PR nightmare.

I think we are more at the God Level for PR

[ZephyrMenodora]

...I'm-
I'm talking about Brigther Day. The PSU song.
That's what I linked. Not Smile. My guy, reading comprehension. I don't like Smile Either.

I removed your quote. I was more responding to your earlier post that was about Smile but quoted your latest post.

[SwadTheFrog]

I removed your quote. I was more responding to your earlier post that was about Smile but quoted your latest post.

Ah, fair enough. Classification or not, it's not a particularly great song, and an extremely unfitting one.

[Willemdarke]

my knowledge of English and some cultural and social things is not enough to understand what Sena said wrong. Can you please explain in simple words?

She implies that people who dislike the particular song are racist towards Black Christians.

The song in question has absolutely nothing to do with Black Christians. Namely the genre/style of the song has nothing to do with gospel music, the compositor is Japanese and the singer is Asian American.

What she's doing is deliberately creating drama and friction within the community to try to distract from her own drama. She's trying to use Black people as a scapegoat shield, while painting us (collectively as a community) as racist.

[Boblawblah]

woo, we posting cool black gospel stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATc...fBjsWr&index=3

go ahead and listen at 2:05.