Open Thread: What Are We Listening To?

by Latoya Peterson

I am sure that you all have noted a bit of an uptick in hip-hop oriented content on the site. At first, I was planning to do a hip-hop week full of posts and content on hip-hop and hip-hop culture. However, after the feminism wars and reviewing all my research, I realized I had way too much information to cram into a week. So, you’ll just notice more posts about hip-hop on a regular basis. I’m planning to cover a lot of the social issues and global issues as well, so feel free to email me with recommendations – latoya@racialicious.com

Also, while putting all this together, I realized that hip-hop doesn’t speak to everyone. Music is often associated with racial groups, but as we have seen since music became an industry that there is no such thing as a hard and fast rule as to who listens to what.

With that, dear readers, I ask you this question: what are we listening to? Hopefully some patterns will emerge from your responses and we can focus some posts on that.

To get you started, here are 20 random songs I listened to today:

Beautiful – Goldfrapp
Love & Appreciate – Murs
Blue Collar Blues – The Far*East Movement
Everything is Everything – Lauryn Hill
Ride on Shooting Star [Japanese] – The Pillows (FLCL Soundtrack)
About a Boy (Nirvana Cover) – Cibo Matto
Nirvana – Elemeno P
Toxic (Britney Spears Cover, Remixed with ODB) – Mark Ronson
I’m Addicted to You – Anna Tsuchiya
You Need My Attention – Van Hunt
Top Back – T.I.
Who Needs Forever - Astrud Gilberto
Well Come [Korean] - Jinusean feat. Lexy
Ex-Boyfriend [Japanese] – M-flo feat. Crystal Kay
Ibabo [Korean] – The Wonder Girls
Amiga [Spanish] – Si*Se
Romeo – Basement Jaxx
Say How I Feel (Remix) – Rhian Benson feat. Slum Village
Astrosexy [Japanese] – M-Flo feat. Chemisty
Morris Brown - Outkast

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