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I don't even think Goose understands the song herself, considering that she left out that the song is specifically about a BLACK baby girl. Black women are masculinized, adultified, and overall mistreated by society. Stevie Wonder asserted his newborn daughter's place in the world before society could. She's lovely, she's wonderful, and she's beautiful. He wanted Aisha to grow up knowing that before racism could make her, or anybody else, think otherwise.

Goose chose that song because white people are willfully incapable of understanding the nuances of intersectionality. I've seen hordes of white queers get upset that southern, straight couples on TikTok were using the giver by Chapell Roan--a song about a service top lesbian who gives head better than a dude. How interesting that they suddenly can't understand why a white person divorcing the blackness from a black song is ignorant.

You can almost feel the delight white queers have at black fans' expense in the comments of the post you linked.

I love seeing people getting angry and like "B-but its about a birth of a girl!" CAUSE YEAH. IT IS ABOUT A BIRTH OF A GIRL. 😭😭

It's to reference Jax being a trans woman you stupid idiot. That she's coming out as a trans woman

oh you're one of the idiots that bought into the racism claims 🙄

You probably explained it the best of any of the posts I've seen.

What especially irritates me is that Goose/Glitch could have made their own song. Or comissioned their own song. Or not done a montage. In a world where people of colour frequently have their culture(s) taken away from them, we have one of the most adored indie creators feeding into that, releasing her finale on Juneteenth, too. And I think Gooseworx knows that it's bad and just doesn't care.

Okay so one not every closeted trans person ends up pushing others to suicide. Two, is Jax being trans actually relevant to the story? We could take it out and I don't see much changing. I'm being serious here. Even if Jax were happy with her gender presentation/identity/etc, she was still:

taken from her home and everything she knows

reeling from possibly killing her mother

not recovered from other family trauma

shoved into a new body

(presumably) told about the horrors of abstraction and is aware that going insane is a common experience in the circus

Hey, I was the anon who originally talked with you about Goose's usage of "Isn't She Lovely," and I was reading the comments on that post. I don't want to call anybody out by name, but there was a specific argument I saw that is one rooted in white ignorance:

I mean, your assertion that a black song (THAT THEY PAID THE RIGHTS TO USE) shouldn’t be used because they’re not black really speaks of deeply ingrained segregation-like beliefs. Black songs ONLY for black people. White songs ONLY for white people. You sound deranged and EXTREMELY hypocritical (and a little transphobic) when you talk like this...

We have LAWS about what is or isn’t good use of transformative use! Why the fuck are you trying to segregate people by their skin color?

This argument immediately jumps to segregation, which is exceptionally odd because no one was talking about segregation. Historically, non-white people were segregated by white people to keep public areas "clean." They were forcibly removed from society. Spaces meant for POC only are not forged out of that segregationist mindset, which is why applying a colonialist mentality, like that commenter was doing, to these arguments does not work.

No one is saying that white people cannot use songs made for black people, or vice versa. That's a strawman created to guilt POC into not establishing boundaries. The problem is that Gooseworx, a white woman with an antiblack past, used a black song about a black baby girl's birth and recontextualized it to be about a non-black character's trans identity. Her ignorance is what I took issue with.

There is a significant difference between a director using SZA's "Kill Bill" in their Netflix movie about a non-black, vengeful ex-girlfriend and a director using "Run And Tell That" from Hairspray, recontextualizing it to be about a white man with a tan. Though they are both songs by black artists, one song's meaning is not universal, while the other's is.

That's not even mentioning the antiblackness Gooseworx has exhibited, in addition to continuing to work with people who are antiblack themselves. It adds another layer of disgust to the situation.