The Unspoken Racial Politics of ‘Fast Car’ at the Grammys
Combs’s crossover hit coasts on the greatness of a Black artist who is already a legend. For country music to claim this as any kind of reconciliation feels like it stole someone else’s medal and declared itself a winner in a foot race that it never ran.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
/nosanitize
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/06/opinion/thepoint/tracy-chapman-grammys?smid=url-share
@corlin Great songs become cover songs. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
https://www.berklee.edu/berklee-now/news/why-the-best-cover-songs-succeed