How did Christina Aguilera get away with wearing blackface & cultural appropriation?

[banterfly]

the few people who get triggered and offended by this didn't exist then.

[K@rm@]

Alot of celebs where  over using the tanner back then and had orange skin it was a trendy fad of the moment.

[princedonte]

Since when is a deep orange tan black face. 

[brenda-walsh]

all of the white teeny boppers have cosplayed being black for controversy and to edge up their image, then go back to being white when it no longer suits them and they need their original audience back

 

its the teen pop idol playbook 

[helikesitheymikey]

Because it was 2002. And spray tans were all the rage then anyway. And the term you are looking for is blackfishing. This isn’t an example of blackface and you know it.

[ZIVERT]

 

[brenda-walsh]

5 minutes ago, ZIVERT said:

 

thank you, i can't with all the people in this thread saying "it was cultural appreciation" and "no one cared back then" as if she clearly wasn't doing this for controversy and to change her image like every other white teen pop idol.

 

jt, bieber, britney, miley, ariana have all cosplayed as black and suddenly surrounded themselves with only black people to make their image seem more edgy/ grown-up then ditched the look when it no longer served them

[RussianRoulette]

It was cool back then.

[Jynx]

the 2000s were a wild time. 

[DamianSolo]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Christina always praised black culture and music by black artists. She never used it as a way to gain a fanbase like Ariana or Miley. 

Pretty much. Her love and appreciation was always genuine, coming from a pure place.

[floraq]

Do y’all know what blackface is? Because it ain’t having a bad tan.

 

Anyways it was a different time. Nobody cried bout that **** like people do now. So no she hasn’t apologized and she doesn’t need to.

Edited June 25, 2023 by floraq

[aesthetic bih]

I'm not Black, Japanese, or Indian so I couldn't call her out, but she was wrong for using these culture to look "cool" at the time

[Anye]

Been discussed here before. Again and again by same people (first page alone).

 

Also she was appreciating them and have talent to back it up. She always pay her respect to Etta James, Whitney Houston and Nina Simone and did their song justice.

 

So no, she doesn't need to apologize especially for ATRL member. 

[banterfly]

19 minutes ago, brenda-walsh said:

thank you, i can't with all the people in this thread saying "it was cultural appreciation" and "no one cared back then" as if she clearly wasn't doing this for controversy and to change her image like every other white teen pop idol.

 

jt, bieber, britney, miley, ariana have all cosplayed as black and suddenly surrounded themselves with only black people to make their image seem more edgy/ grown-up then ditched the look when it no longer served them

She wasn't doing it for controversy. She was making urban music then (CHUD, Dirrty) and liked to change up her visuals to fit the music. She has done this multiple times as an homage/ show appreciation of the culture where it's borrowed from. She donned Baby Jane/50s visuals and make up for ANOM/Candy man/ Hurt. She did Madonna-inspired visuals for NMT.

 

She didn't braid her hair or tan her skin to insult other people.

[truthteller]

twitter didnt exist back then

[banterfly]

2 minutes ago, aesthetic bih said:

I'm not Black, Japanese, or Indian so I couldn't call her out, but she was wrong for using these culture to look "cool" at the time

So should Madonna also apologize to India for Frozen or to Japan for Nothing really matters? Or Janet for Runaway? 

[Margaux]

i think xtina is so irrelevant nowadays that people just don’t even know her. 

[popmusicisdead]

light skin, dark skin, she had them all. that's why these girls still out here hatin' cause she's sexy 

[brenda-walsh]

5 minutes ago, banterfly said:

She wasn't doing it for controversy. She was making urban music then (CHUD, Dirrty) and liked to change up her visuals to fit the music. She has done this multiple times as an homage/ show appreciation of the culture where it's borrowed from. She donned Baby Jane/50s visuals and make up for ANOM/Candy man/ Hurt. She did Madonna-inspired visuals for NMT.

 

She didn't braid her hair or tan her skin to insult other people.

either way she was doing it to edge up her image. interesting that her and other white teeny boppers equate blackness to some sort of loss of innocence 

[Mean Trees]

4 minutes ago, popmusicisdead said:

light skin, dark skin, she had them all. that's why these girls still out here hatin' cause she's sexy 

 The asian persuasion also.

[banterfly]

2 minutes ago, brenda-walsh said:

either way she was doing it to edge up her image. interesting that her and other white teeny boppers equate blackness to some sort of loss of innocence 

You are literally making this all up in your head.

[MonsterNavy]

idk but late 90s and early 2000s was where she did all these and it was a very different time?

even JLo got away with saying the n word on her song back then

 

 

 

Edited June 25, 2023 by MonsterNavy

[Power love]

2 hours ago, Mtjjproducer said:

a better question would be how pink (the original Miley wanna be black) blackfished and was trying to actually pass as mixed. Also even Britney tried to be ghetto and play on black culture but she broke her knee in the process 

It’s the way this thread backfired on the OP for me. 

[Power love]

21 minutes ago, brenda-walsh said:

either way she was doing it to edge up her image. interesting that her and other white teeny boppers equate blackness to some sort of loss of innocence 

This is in your head you’re delusional. 

[HANZ94]

2 hours ago, Josh said:

Christina always praised black culture and music by black artists. She never used it as a way to gain a fanbase like Ariana or Miley. 

THIS