I've been noticing an uptick of people speaking on colorism in the music industry, particularly twitter. I see it mostly attributed to female artists, rather then male artists. There are tons of tweets which say that Ice Spice benefits heavily from colorism and is only popular because of it while taking the place of other talented darker skinned artists.

I don't believe this to be the case but I'd like to hear the opinions of others. There are many darker skinned artists that get popping and light skinned artists that never get popping. S*** SZA has had one of the biggest albums lately. I think colorism is just a non-factor in an artist's success these days. Do yall think that colorism truly benefits artists these days? Give examples if you can

Colorism been a thing since we got off the slave ships partner

It's a thing but does it really affect the success of modern artists?

Spotify‘s top 10 most streamed artists:
3 black artists (lightskins )
2 Latin artists
5 White artists

Always been a thing lmao

I’ve seen the dark skin ice spice and the hispanic ice spice threads so what do you think

Exactly

At the billionaire level, I couldn’t comment on but African-Americans making more than $75000 report experiencing higher levels of discrimination than those making less

I’d argue it can affect the success of the everyday Negro. It definitely effects black women the most tho since they’re constantly competing in beauty standards across the board

colorism is prevalent in life nigga tf
so naturally music too. its a human psychology issue, so naturally it trickles down into everything else that humans deal with

Can‘t lie Tate is lowkey speaking facts I‘m shocked

how would you measure that

Surveys IIRC

Also btw I dunno what you’re trying to say here but there are no dark people on this list
Colourism is prevalent in this list realistically

Colorism been prevalent for centuries

Bad bunny and shakira are white too

I imagine thats the point he's making too

I thought so but just wanted to triple check!

More culture war victim mindset twitterspeak

Ice spice benefits from having a unique look and hair, big butt, s***appeal and capitalizing off a meme song with some decent follow ups

Yea that‘s what I‘m implying

Awesome 👏 Sorry to prolong it
Do we know the first dark skinned person to appear on the list?

SZA at #18
Metro Boomin #19

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