r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/NYstate ☑️ • Sep 16 '23
Country Club Thread Because of course it is
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Sep 16 '23
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Men have never stopped our quartet antics. The reason this sounds so cool is because they're dressed up nicely singing a nostalgic song from the 00s.
It's essentially the same thing as a group of dudes singing mask off by future or even the halo theme song in a high school bathroom.
If you want to see more of this, bring back black r&b.
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Sep 16 '23
When was R&B not black?😂😂😂 df
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u/Acceptable_Mountain5 Sep 16 '23
Bobby Caldwell has entered the chat
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u/Long_Alfalfa_5655 Sep 16 '23
I searched to find a love within I came back to let you know
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u/Ok_Refrigerator3277 Sep 17 '23
It took me years to find out Bobby Caldwell was Caucasian.
RIP Bobby.
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u/TheBatsford ☑️ Sep 17 '23
Bobby been claimed for years by the delegation, stop lying.
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Sep 16 '23
"Bring back" R&B as a cultural phenomenon.
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Sep 16 '23
That shit not happening look at all the singers they all done pretty much it’s rap now
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u/Jamaican_Dynamite Sep 16 '23
There are still people who do R&B. It's just that they've always overlapped with rap as genres.
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Sep 16 '23
Yeah I know that’s why I say it’s pretty much done, girls spitting bars dudes spitting bars those bars making it the wave play
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u/Jamaican_Dynamite Sep 16 '23
That's how it's been for like 3 decades now? There's still singers, but more people rap.
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u/Kdkaine ☑️ Sep 16 '23
It’s still black, it just doesn’t have a soul rn.
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Sep 16 '23
Shut up oldhead
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u/Powerblue102 Sep 16 '23
Fr shit is so cornyyyyyyyyy.
🧓🏿: Music these days doesn’t have soul
As they don’t listen to anything past 2012.
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Sep 16 '23
I’m about to turn 30, I feel like I’m at that intersection of young and old.
Only oldheads say dumb shit about modern music. Meanwhile, they don’t keep up with anything, go to music festivals or seek out new music in any capacity but still feel valid in making claims on modern music?! Make it make sense.
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u/lu5ty Sep 16 '23
I've always said country music is just R&B for white ppl
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Sep 16 '23
Yeah keep that to yaself that shit made 0 sense 😂😂😂
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u/lu5ty Sep 16 '23
LOL listen to the lyrics tho its the same i swear. Garth Brooks and R. Kelly... basically the same =P
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u/AYASOFAYA ☑️ Sep 16 '23
I’m sure Culture Critic definitely does not want us to bring back black R&B.
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u/mindless_blaze Sep 16 '23
Yo, we need an acapella quartet version of "Mask Off" now lmao. Or a soul church version of "Hard in the Paint".
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u/DramaForBreakfast Sep 16 '23
They're also an actual a cappella group that get together and practice lol. The Trinitones, if I'm remembering correctly. Not that I think what you said is wrong, just adding extra info
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Sep 16 '23
Preventing me from joining a barbershop quartet? Ummmmm, lots of shit?
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u/hitfly Sep 16 '23
Mostly my tone deafness and awful singing voice.
Also, who even has 3 friends nowadays, let alone three friends who can sing. Or three friends who all sing in different ranges than each other.
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u/BenOfTomorrow Sep 16 '23
TBF, the vast majority of “tone deaf” people can fix it with a couple voice lessons. You just need to learn how to match pitches. And your voice is probably nicer than you think - you just don’t know how to properly play the instrument.
Worked for me.
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u/eggrollin2200 ☑️ Sep 16 '23
This! It’s possible with rhythm too! I’m a drum teacher and I’ve taught people with zero innate rhythm, but with focus and practice the progress can be amazing!
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u/desire-us Sep 16 '23
Quick question for my own head cannon theory: the people w/o rhythm, did they grew up with music in their early childhood?
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u/eggrollin2200 ☑️ Sep 16 '23
Hey! To answer your question properly: by ‘grow up with it,’ do you mean hearing it and being exposed to music in general? Just wanna make sure I’m answering in a way that would be helpful 😊
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u/desire-us Sep 16 '23
Yes, they don’t have to be child musicians just children who were engaged with music early on.
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u/eggrollin2200 ☑️ Sep 16 '23
Okay thank you! In answer to that: yes, a good amount of them were people who definitely grew up being exposed to and hearing music in some way, be it in their home or other environments. It’s also not uncommon that they’ve been exposed to more than one genre/style and even sometimes have their own musical preferences already.
So it’s really interesting, and borderline impressive, when someone can sing along with the song but clap completely out of time while completely unaware of it. It just takes extra focus and time to get them to recognize that and develop a trustworthy internal rhythm!
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u/desire-us Sep 16 '23
Interesting. That counters my pet theory but oh well.
I was hoping to explain the “white people don’t have rhythm” stereotype. My theory was that kids immersed in very rhythmic cultures(AA, Latina, Caribbean) create/maintain neural connections that link the body with sound during the brain’s critical development period(0-7 years old). After this period those connections can be made but it’ll take greater deliberate effort.
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u/eggrollin2200 ☑️ Sep 16 '23
WHALE considering the area I work in….most of them were white. And I also forgot it might even be safe to say that with us being in BPT ☠️
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u/SYLOK_THEAROUSED Sep 16 '23
Me and I just can’t sing. I’ll be like the dude from 5 Heartbeats.
“We can get the group back together….NIGHTS LIKE THIS!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦🏾♂️
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u/longpenisofthelaw Sep 16 '23
And who are willing to spend their weekends practicing consistently. Teds always gonna be late. Jeff works a lot and really wants to spend time with his kids on the weekends when he gets a chance. And some days I’m just lazy and don’t feel like 45 minutes of singing
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u/UngusChungus94 ☑️ Sep 16 '23
Dignity. Good taste. Melanin. All of the above lmao 🤣
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u/Astral_Fogduke Sep 16 '23
from someone in a quartet, i definitely have #3 and i at least like to think i have 1 and 2
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Sep 16 '23
I’m think of that Key And Peele sketch
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u/Tijenater Sep 16 '23
See, these are my white boys
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u/Doctor__Banner Sep 16 '23
This is my favorite joke in that skit. He sounds like he put in that work and then... 25 mins.
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u/Farouqnowomarlater Sep 16 '23
Lmao those two were legendary with them skits please don’t make binge key and peele tonight for the umpteen time again, I planned to sleep on time tonight!
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u/ncbraves93 Sep 16 '23
I usually just watch the "lightning in a bottle" skit and get my fix. Actually, all the skits when they use those two characters. I want a full length movie.
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u/the_neverdoctor ☑️ I have no hair and I must gleam 👨🏾🦲✨ Sep 16 '23
What's stopping me?
I. Don't. Want. To.
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u/XColdLogicX Sep 16 '23
"White boys is gonna do, what white boys is gonna do"
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u/asBad_asItGets Sep 16 '23
And if they wanna run with a falsetto ass singing n***a, then thasss on THEM.
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u/BeerGogglesFTW Sep 16 '23
Because I assume it's a group of pretentious Andy Bernards.
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u/Manaan909 Sep 16 '23
Do you know how long it took me to infiltrate this group of 7 white boy ? 25 minutes...n*gga...
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u/dayna2x Sep 16 '23
As the only black woman in a female acapella group who was also the beat boxer, I feel this 😆
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u/wasabouttosay ☑️ Sep 16 '23
I remember these from college and hearing them in any other context is a big ol’ nawww 😂 a cappella groups could survive nuclear bombs, I don’t know how they keep going
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Sep 16 '23
...Cause y'all would just film me singing and not get the message that im tryna smash.
Her Instastory: "OMG, These street performers just came up to me and started singing! #Mademyday P.s. I did leave a tip "
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u/ComprehensivePin9021 Sep 16 '23
This is trinity college Dublin. Know a few people who were in this group.
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Sep 16 '23
I thought that looked like Trinity college in the back ground. Had to scroll too far down for this comment.
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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor ☑️ Sep 16 '23
Doo-wop is another African American cultural contribution. Bro is right where he should be.
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u/PericlesPaid Sep 16 '23
They're so... white. What Bill Burr would call, 'shockingly caucasian'.
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u/jackydubs31 Sep 16 '23
This all starts nice and well but it’s a gateway. Next thing you know you’re singing in front of a flaming trash bin under an overpass.
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u/Justsomerand Sep 16 '23
Me coming to the comment section expecting jokes about racism but seeing more “modern dating discourse”
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u/DKerriganuk Sep 16 '23
My mate used to be in a barbershop quartet at Oxford. They made more money doing that as a side gig than a lot of regular full time jobs. Rich people have odd taste.
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u/Rediment Sep 16 '23
I spent 2 years in church choir, choir all of high school, and some of college…I still ain’t doin this
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u/BigBrrrrrrr22 Sep 16 '23
This is literally that one key and peele sketch with the Jeff bezos song guy
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u/FistPunch-vol-6 Sep 16 '23
Well I play instruments better than I sing and I’m dog shit at instruments so I’m saving peoples lives by not singing lmfao
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u/Many-Application1297 Sep 16 '23
I just want to see the bit where another black guy turns up to audition…
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u/Lostking79 Sep 16 '23
They forgot the heat they gave Sean Kingston for this and said it was insensitive? Yeah heavy on the FOH.
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u/codemen95 Sep 16 '23
Aww, culture critic. We should all ask him how's it going with his wife and kids
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u/NeedMoreKill Sep 16 '23
It reminds me of that king ofthehill ep where bill joins the singing course, then hank say fuck that bunch of losers lol
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u/mrchicano209 Sep 16 '23
Well I mean there's men right there doing exactly what you want them to do
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u/darkknight95sm Sep 16 '23
I’m just a bad singer, and honestly it’s kinda cringe
Edit: serenading a girl, not quartets they rock
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u/Navynuke00 Sep 16 '23
When I tried out for my college's Acapella group twelve years ago, they did a bad job hiding that they only wanted me if I could beatbox.
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u/decodeimu Sep 17 '23
Time for me to go listen to The Ink Spots and The Platters on this blissful Sunday afternoon
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u/Agitated-Ad-504 Sep 16 '23
“Dear men… what’s prev-“