Mark was easily my favorite lyricist of the band so I'm really not sure how I have not been able to stand a single song they've released since Tom left...
Correct.
My brain still cannot comprehend Hum appearing out of no where and releasing one of the greatest records of the year. I have not been able to stop listening to it.
Hey, another Nelly Furtado "Folklore" fan! There's at least two of us! Agreed to all of the above - easily her best and still holds up quite well for a pop album from that overly glossy era. "Explode" is especially something else, yes.
Hahaha this conversation is wild. Of course Mormons and Evangelicals wouldn't be familiar but why should that stop someone who was raised around the symbol from using it as a stage name? I'm just not sure why other people's confusion about an ancient symbol that means something quite specific is then being used to label an artist problematic in a different context.
Correct. But there are theological - as well as, admittedly, aesthetic (tho there's overlap there) - reasons for altering the ethnicity. Either way, there's already an issue of "appropriation" that doesn't quite fit the category that they're being accused of.
Not sure how going by Blessed Madonna is any less of an "adoption" than Black Madonna because they're the same figures? Both are references to a Palestinian woman, in the end.
Which is racist. This is not.
It's arguably more problematic depicting a Palestinian woman as white. Of course, there are reasons for changing their ethnicity across cultures but that's a different conversation entirely.
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