Something Clever 99 wrote:This is an old post so I'm not going to argue with the questionable/ really frustrating things I've seen in this forum. However I did want to say that I am a black person who likes to listen to/ write lyrics for/ sing in the pop-punk, metalcore, and country genres you guys seem to think are dead to black people. I also want to say that the reason more black people aren't in the scene is because when the ideal image is skinny an pale with long hair or pale white men with lumberjack beards it can be hard to get taken seriously. and there is also the matter of there being added negative assumptions/ reactions (more than white people face) to black people expressing the anger that often comes along with metalcore performances.
that being said if any other people of color in the scene want to talk or form a band I'd love it if you would get in touch.
I'll admit I'm not a country fan but I've heard some black folks around here (I'm in Nor Cal) doing some really good country vocals at Karaoke so I would say the stigma of any genre lives in the mind of people that don't really get how music brings people together.
I'll be covering a little bit of metalcore here with a band and I am the only pale white guy in it, plus it is female fronted. Since talent isn't a color, I'm sure those people with wrong-headed assumptions are in for a surprise, lol. I don't have the long hair anymore and I couldn't grow a lumberjack beard to save my life. All that matters is that we bring it doing what we love to do. At my old studio, there used to be a black R&B drummer that would come around and jam with us. He played to some of our songs that he liked and our singer knows a fair bit of the R&B that he could play. Good times. I think a positive experience does more than anything to draw people of all colors to metal.
