Sting Hits Out At "Ugly" Cultural Appropriation Accusations Over Shaggy Collaboration
One of the most unlikely collaborations of recent times sees the former Police icon Sting team up with Jamaican reggae artist Shaggy.
Rock legend Sting has labelled the phrase ‘cultural appropriation’ as “ugly”, following criticism of his new reggae collaboration album with Jamaican musician Shaggy.
The two artists’ musical bromance has raised more than its fair share of eyebrows since the album, titled 44/876 (after the respective international dialling codes for Britain and Jamaica), was announced a few months back. Some have questioned whether such a project constitutes cultural appropriation on the part of Sting, a white singer.
“It's such an ugly term,” the former frontman of The Police told the BBC in a new interview on Wednesday (April 18th).
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