The context of the original thread was why isn't there a black Taylor Swift out here and there is some truth to the matter in that the fan base just isn't there to get them to that level. Look at someone like HER who is a critical darling, but just hasn't blown up like that even with the type of music that'd appease her fan base.
I think y’all are trying way too hard to make ‘you gotta be light skin and slutty to make it’ a thing. HER has had smash hits and she has 6M followers on IG. Ella Mai hs smash hits recently and 4M followers. They’ve made it. Everybody can’t be Beyonce or Taylor swift.
“colorism”… Normani has 7m followers
And there is a black Taylor swift. It’s SZA. (Until she got a bbl.

) SZA was and is singing ugly duckling anthems and tbh even with the bbl hasnt used sexuality to do it. So it goes back to forcing an outdated narrativ: SZA is dark skin, makes legit music, and JUST broke records but folk still on ‘they don’t wanna see dark skin women’
