With Apologies to Sena Bryer

[Vensaval]

Sena needs to just remove herself from Twitter. She's doing herself absolutely zero favors, and is somehow bewildered that's she's facing backlash.

This is a kind of mentality that I cannot comprehend for the life of me.

[lolnotacat]

woo, we posting cool black gospel stuff?

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

go ahead and listen at 2:05.

If my church had a funky baseline like that when I was growing up, I'd probably not be an atheist now.

[Raim]

A voice actor for a game should not be telling people that they're racist if they don't like a song from the game.

[AddictedToWitches]

I actually like Smile a lot but I mainly like it because of AKINO
I don't know though why Sena is saying it's black gospel music because AKINO, the vocalist is literally Japanese. . .

[St0rmy]

They need to take her Twitter account away. It will save them (and us) headaches in the future.

[ZXN]

I hate smile. It's not an awful song as a whole, but it certainly doesn't really fit the times it's used in-game. I mean they play this song when WE'RE BUILDING A GIANT TRAIN BOMB. I'm not going to knock people who like it though, different strokes for different folks. But basic common sense tells me going "If you hate this specific song, you're just racist" is not a good idea, especially for a VA voicing a major character in a massive MMO like FFXIV. Although given it is FFXIV twitter, wouldn't be surprised if there are a bunch of people going "true and real" or something along those lines and reinforcing the view.

After seeing that tweet though, I am actually kind of curious what the Japanese players think about the song. Do they love it? Hate it? Is it somewhat split like it seems to be for us overseas players? While the Japanese side is sometimes really blunt with feedback and criticisms, like they were with Wuk Lamat, I assume it's not as easy to get clear answers that are not lost in translation.

[Donoman]

If my church had a funky baseline like that when I was growing up, I'd probably not be an atheist now.

I didn't even know there was such thing as black gospel music. My family would just call it gospel for obvious reasons, lol ������. It was definitely the best part of church though, it makes me sad that all it takes is a few judgmental religious people to completely ruin something that should be so positive.

[Papayatar]

I was having fun lurking and reading the thread but man I felt compelled to make a comment after seeing the “smile is black gospel” tweet like woow :’O. Like I took emotional/psychic damage or w/e cuz black gospel was what I grew up with, and “Smile” is nowhere near it.

Gospel inspired sure but black gospel specifically is such a stretch. It’s disappointing and unfortunate to what Sena is implying if you don’t like Smile.

But also, what black gospel is Sena listening to? Cuz if her only reference is, the Muses from Disney’s Hercules then I’d understand.

[Burmecia]

Sena needs to just remove herself from Twitter. She's doing herself absolutely zero favors, and is somehow bewildered that's she's facing backlash.

...
wasn't she peeved about (and suspecting -phobia to be the reason) not getting too many (or as many as she saw herself to deserve) voiceactings gigs in some older some post of hers?

[Bananarama]

Is this specimen serious?