User talk:Tahdaa

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Hello, Tahdaa, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Cee Lo Green
Thanks for your contribution. The Danielle Heard article and her reading of the "Fuck You" video is indeed very interesting. However, I'm afraid we need to be careful when moving the points raised in an interpretative academic essay to an encyclopaedic article. That said, I would like to discuss where it is best placed to be used and in what manner. Let me emphasise that the following are suggestions, Wikipedia works by consensus and I do think it merits inclusion.

The way I read the essay was that Heard took a point from Paul Gilroy that there is a “disappearance of the pursuit of Freedom in black vernacular culture". From that she talks about freedom projects - but not from the point of view as an organisation that is fronted by Green. Instead, she uses the Cee Lo Green video as a starting point of her case study. As Heard studies/teaches English Literature, there are a large number of interpretative aspects to her essay. These are useful, especially with regard to his solo albums and style of rap. I would argue that the essay can be used there (her interpretations that is). She also comments on on certain post-modernist memes that are very interesting but difficult to include here as we are looking for multiple sources. See for instance the Super Chicken section of the article that essentially reviews the performance and uses the concepts formulated by Susan Sontag to interpret that. By bringing all these different elements together, Heard qualifies it as a black freedom project. This is extremely interesting and is likely to generate further academic discussion - but it leaves us Wikipedia editors with the problem of how to use this.

The difficulty here is to differentiate between what is Heard's opinion/interpretation and what is a generally established view when discussing current black visual culture in America. Obviously Green falls into the latter bracket and Heard's essay is very useful in that regard. My suggestion would be to leave the gender aspect to the side for the moment. Not because it is not interesting or worth-while, but because it is likely to generate a lot more academic discussion. What is useful it her description of the "Fuck You" video and her general points on Green's style and how that fits in with black visual culture. That said, I'm open to the inclusion of other aspects if they prove useful and not essayistic. Perhaps it is something that would benefit from a discussion in your class at some point. Happy editing. Karst (talk) 10:16, 7 December 2016 (UTC)