sadmanbarty
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Euro Aesthetic
one of my favourite reynolds things when i first got into reading him was him talking about why drum and bass was successful in europe but jungle wasn't. he was saying that in the uk we hear diva vocals as a signifier of blackness, whereas in europe it signified gayness.
there is an element of the idea of "blackness" being about men being able to be feminine (dancing, dressing fancy, expressing emotion) in a way where you're still macho.
this gets somewhere over the english channel