ItaloSuave wrote:
I am an American and I really do not like rap music, which has been around for 32 years and more and has found an audience, mostly of younger people, all over the Globe. That does not make me a racist. I helped get Mayor Harold Washington elected in Chicago, making Black Hollywood possible, starting with Whitney Houston. I personally advised both Harold and his Father politically, and worked directly with his South Side and West Side Campaign Coordinators, who were Wendy ___ a U of Chicago Anthropologist who went to Africa and was the founding organizer for Earth Day in 1970, and Arthur Turner, now a top guy in the State of Illinois legislature. I just like Utada music like it is, and do not want her co-opted by people with millions of dollars invested in poor musical taste. I have no apologies. Utada should stay true to her own music such as we know it, not sell out to a poor-taste promulgating American record label. She will be big in America if she stays true to her own good taste as she has until now. I want her to change the musical paradigm here. Other Americans want it to stay the same. She is my vanguard. It is a battle that must be fought.