Compared to old-school badasses like Blue Scholars, Macklemore is a f*cking joke. Shows you can't make it in USA and be a political act. Their beats were way better too.
@2: Macklemore hit with a novelty song. Just like Sir Mix A Lot. Or the Presidents. Don't expect Political Acts to have pop hits and you'll have a lot less stress in your life.
oh great, let's inject identity politics into EVERYTHING. if there is a connotation (which is so tenuous as to be nonexistent), it's nothing to get super PC butthurt about. This is just like Jezebel.
Interesting that you accuse ST of link baiting when you admit to publishing an article on the same artist in March and also using Macklemore in the title. Their use of "sidekick" was terrible, but let's be real - they're not the only ones in this day and age who are trying to drive clicks to their site.
I'm 100 percent in the "language matters/don't reinforce bad stereotypes" camp, but it's pretty obvious that this was an inadvertent mistake by a ST editor that simply wanted to attract as many eyes as possible to a story about a lesser known artist.
I don't see a problem with collaborator. Seems overly PC to me. Is the problem that Macklemore is white? Would it be less insulting if you referred to someone as Jay-Z's collaborator? If I was trying to promote anything and I did something with Jay-Z, I'd be putting "Jay-Z collaborator" after everything. He's a better known name and it will draw people. Marketing, plain and simple. (BTW - I'm black if it matters.)
How is "sidekick" this big a deal? Aren't you flailing around so much more because it's a non-white woman who is the "sidekick" – which had nothing to do with the contents of the headline? You seriously think gender and race mechanics were at work here?
Please stop hyping this kind of reactionary do-nothing bullshit. You see a word, you post your offense, you get an apology. What have you accomplished? What walls and barriers did you just break down? I want social justice too but you fuckers make us look **so fucking petty and regressive**
@2: Macklemore hit with a novelty song. Just like Sir Mix A Lot. Or the Presidents. Don't expect Political Acts to have pop hits and you'll have a lot less stress in your life.
Please stop hyping this kind of reactionary do-nothing bullshit. You see a word, you post your offense, you get an apology. What have you accomplished? What walls and barriers did you just break down? I want social justice too but you fuckers make us look **so fucking petty and regressive**
Get over it. Stop finding things to be offended at -- if you have to explain it, it isn't really offensive now, is it?