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Piwin -> RE: Rosalía (Mar. 3 2022 17:49:41)
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Pointless discussion IMHO, and ultimately a self-fulfilling prophecy. Discussions about "authenticity" almost always are. As per usual, I'll be making a comparison with languages (sorry [:D]). If you want to say that Joseph Conrad is not an "authentic" English-language author, dismissing all of his life decisions as if they mattered nothing and retaining only the fact that he was born in Poland, then that's your choice, but you'd be missing out on some high-quality writing that puts to shame many authors "born and raised" with the English language. If there are people that still hold to those trivialities as something important and that still choose to reduce human beings to a small set of characteristics given at birth, dismissing everything else - life choices, etc. - that make you who you are, then that's their problem, not yours. Just get on with the business of perfecting your art and don't worry about the dimwits out there who judge you based on characteristics given at birth.
And to add to that, you know that bit about musicians being absolutely certain they can tell what instrument is being played only to then do a blind test and be shown that they don't know jackshit and it's just their own biases speaking? The same thing applies to language. I've (informally) tested it on dozens of people. But you can do it yourself: assuming you live in a country that speaks the language you grew up with, next time you go down to a bar or some place where you meet strangers from your area, speak your native language as you always would, but when people ask you to introduce yourself a bit more, make up a BS background story. Say you're from another country and you only moved here as an adult, that your name is X, something that sounds foreign. Then just watch as people's biases kick in and they hallucinate differences out of thin air: "ah, your English is great but I could tell you had a slight accent". It never fails. Do that, and it will cure you of this illusion that the impressions of "natives" are a reliable gauge of what is "authentic" and what is not. And that's not to judge those people too harshly of course. After all that's just how we all are, and it takes constant work to overcome that. But the point is: that's their problem, not yours. The only thing you can do is get to the point where they wouldn't recognize your art as foreign if you played it in a blind test. Beyond that we're just talking about their own biases and that's their problem, not yours. If you reach that point and someone still things Rosalia or Las Ketchup are "more flamenco" than you, they're the morons, not you.
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