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honestly white people are extremely good at decontextualizing people’s music and art and making it about literally anything other than race, even when… no ESPECIALLY when it’s about race. like just because your lives aren’t informed by your race doesn’t mean u can make art that is clearly abt artist’s experience with race in conjunction with love, body image, etc. into something that is instead abt vague concepts like tenderness or longing or whatever. to take that meaning away from the artist’s work takes away so much of their original intent for creating it. the work of artists of color isn’t always meant to be relatable to u guys. you’re welcome to listen to it and enjoy it for its original meaning, but to suck away that meaning and make it simply abt whatever words the internet is using for tenderness nowadays is unfair & presumptuous frankly