Azealia Banks has taken a swipe at Australia’s music and leisure business, calling it “trash”, whereas additionally labelling Australian artists as “untalented/uncultured and unneeded”.
The American rapper took to Instagram on Monday the place she shared a number of posts ranting about Australia’s music business.
“Realise musical talent is just not in the gene pool,” she wrote.
“Absolutely no one on earth takes (the Australian music industry) seriously.”
Lamenting on the seemingly countless reserve of talentless Australian performers, Ms Banks’ passionate posts made exceptions for Kylie Minogue, INXS and AC/DC, however known as Tame Impala “cheesy” and Wolfmother “an American rock tribute band”.
No stranger to publicly voicing her grievances with the nation and its music scene, the latest controversy seemingly arose over allegations an Australian report label “corruptly stole” Ms Banks’ mental property.
The singer/rapper/songwriter took to Instagram shortly after studying a chunk in The Guardian written by Ben Eltham, who spoke to the hurdles confronted by native artists in reaching new audiences within the age of social media.
Ms Banks stated Australian Dance Music report label Sweat It Out incorrectly labelled the style of her music, implying she was in a weak place when signing the report deal as she was “very f*cking sick” on the time.
Citing “jealousy, racism and desperation” because the driving power behind Sweat It Out’s “piss poor remix” of her new track, ‘New Bottega’, Ms Banks widened her criticism to seize your entire Australian music business.
“(It) is a hip hop record. It is not a dance record,” she stated.
“Clearly there is a cultural dissonance here.
“HipHop is the most profitable genre of music in the world right now. EDM (electronic dance music) is f*cking dead.”
Ms Banks went on to say that Australia’s leisure business didn’t “realise how unimportant they are as far as music culture goes”.
“Australia’s media/music/entertainment industry isn’t exactly heralded by the heads of government or anyone in the world as a coveted cultural export,” she stated.
“Australians don’t even want to hear Australian music LOL.”
Ms Banks cited Australia’s enduring colonial equipment and its systemic dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples because the driving power behind its music and tradition being “so trash”.
“Y’all stomped all the blackness out of Australia – which is why your music exports suck,” she stated.
“(It’s) one of the most culturally stale white nations on the planet.”
Her posts comes almost six months after Ms Banks cancelled an Australian present in 2022 and vowed by no means to return to the nation’s shores.
Lashing out at occasion promoters over allegations that they didn’t pay her, Ms Banks additionally took goal at Australian forex, calling it “third-world”.
The performer additionally cited a “racist” incident that occurred throughout her Sydney present by which a bottle of sentimental drink was thrown at her on stage, subsequently promising she wouldn’t return to the land down beneath.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
