never forget that the term “dream pop” was coined by black people!
they are seriously such an underrated shoegaze band, like you don’t get loveless and screamadelica without i and the rem”i”xes ep https://open.spotify.com/track/3tCJDcjrgzJs3DDhixEyPf?si=sacz6b_QRo2BLk6gWT96rA">https://open.spotify.com/track/3tC...
also responsible for one of the biggest dance hits...ever https://youtu.be/VrtwCXeKsvg ">https://youtu.be/VrtwCXeKs...
another great over-looked black shoegaze band that was produced by robin guthrie

“they don’t expect a multi-racial band from north carolina to know anything about the cocteau twins, and we’re like yeah why not? don’t y’all know about james brown?” https://youtu.be/8I0YSf2ZNXQ ">https://youtu.be/8I0YSf2ZN...
one more piece of black dream pop history...ok so https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Violettes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Violettes Herz">PRINCEhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Violettes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Violettes Herz"> was said to be a big cocteau twins fan and he he even sampled “fifty-fifty clown” on a song he wrote for Martika called “love thy will be done” and it’s stunning https://open.spotify.com/track/5nHQ2YPVcddwJz71aupuvz?si=-BiZgQYvThWV7xNonokuYA">https://open.spotify.com/track/5nH...
last year they put out prince’s demo for the prince originals compilation. so there’s prince and cocteau twins on the same song https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💜" title="Violettes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Violettes Herz"> https://open.spotify.com/track/3vi2IS8APhNorymm9yTsj7?si=sGOeaUr1TJS_eKNI6q02jQ">https://open.spotify.com/track/3vi...
ok this tweet is starting to lowkey blow up and breonna taylor’s murderers still haven’t been arrested. this juneteenth demand #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor https://justiceforbreonna.org/ ">https://justiceforbreonna.org/">...
also buy a black artist’s music on bandcamp!
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