Red lion Wrote:
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> Meade's opus Wrote:
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> > Music Teacher Wrote:
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> > > I teach music at a local school. I frequently
> > use
> > > Meade’s Sweet Tea song as a way to teach my
> > > students how to harmonize and as an example
> of
> > a
> > > great melody. They all enjoy his music and
> many
> > > have thanked me for introducing him to them.
> > I’m
> > > sure this will create many future generations
> > of
> > > Meade fans. I wish I could thank Meade in
> > person
> >
> >
> > I know for a fact that music historians
> impressed
> > with the arrangement, rate Sweet Tea as Meade's
> > greatest effort so far. It has been called "a
> > seductive Old South musical treat" by a
> authority
> > on Southern music at the Berklee College of
> Music
> > in Boston Massachusetts.
>
> Which music historians?
>
> Who exactly said that quote?
>
> So far? The song is like 10 years old.
> I call BS on the validity of your claim.
If that was even remotely true, Meade would have been invited to do something for that college and Meade himself would not shut up about it.
Meade is a lolcow. Even with his best bit "The Chinese Thing" we aren't laughing with him. We are laughing at him. Remember the first time he pulled it out? It was out of the blue. I was thinking, "What kind of racist throw-back thinks this sort of thing is acceptable in the 21at century?". He would defend it by citing things from over 50 years ago. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" hasn't aged well because of Mickey Rooney's depiction of a "Chinaman". If you have to go back that far, that is a good sign that it may not fly today.
Not that those sorts of depictions haven't been done in the 21st century. In "Always Sunny in Philadelphia", Sweet Dee pulls out all kinds of exaggerated racial stereotypes because she thinks they are funny and she is rightfully mocked by the other characters for doing so. So when Meade acts that way in real life, mocking happens.
And Meade's role model, Eric Cartman has done it too.
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