![]() After the racially charged performance, Vulture music critic Jody Rosen wrote, "As Cyrus stalked the stage, mugging and twerking, and paused to spank and simulate analingus upon the ass of a thickly set African-American backup dancer, her act tipped over into what we may as well just call racism." Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus' VMA performance was the spark that ignited the still-raging discussion of cultural appropriation in music. The song is as much a cultural theft as it is a literal one. ![]() ![]() A jury will decide whether his song "Blurred Lines" ripped off Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up." But the jury is looking at plagiarism, when in fact the real crime here is appropriation. On Tuesday, the long-awaited Robin Thicke trial officially began. ![]()
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