Ariana Grande may not be the first celeb under fire for cultural appropriation, but she is the latest. Ariana Grande is one of the biggest names in pop music right now and has been in spotlight many a times because of her controversies and receives backlash from her fans.
While the most recent controversy involved her Vogue cover, there's been several other times — all included in this list — that she's been accused of looking "too black."
This has even been coined as "blackfishing.
As you can guess, it's pissed people off.
A writer for Revelist made that statement after seeing the video.
Turns out, she's not alone, as many people have accused Ariana of black/brown face.
Instead of focusing on how it's her adorable dog, Toulouse’s, first Vogue cover, people were upset about Ariana's skin looking darkened.
By now, we're all used to Ariana Grande rocking her slicked-back ponytail.
Yikes.
While her song makes it very clear that she's copying "My Favorite Things" by The Sound of Music (with permission of course), fans believe that Ariana copied something else in the form of cultural appropriation.
This includes Soulja Boy's and his "Pretty Boy Swag" song.
If you listen to both, the beat is quite similar.
If you didn't know, 2 Chainz's owns the Pink Trap House in Atlanta.
It's used as a safe space for black people to get tested for HIV.
She posted a video to Instagram, comparing Ariana's song to her song "Mine."
"Do that sound familiar to you? Because that sound familiar to me…Ain’t that the little song I made about brown women and their hair?”
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Grande also came under fire for hiring mainly black songwriters for her "Thank U, Next" album.
This person called it "gross and uncomfortable."
But that hasn't stopped people from criticizing the celeb.
According to Urban Dictonary, a "blaccent" is defined as "a distinctive manner of speech, pitch or tone particular to African American urban inner city youth".
When she said the word "juice" while referring to one pic, people said she was trying to sound like a black woman.
"Why is she trying to sound like Beyoncé" another person said.
Is Ariana trying to look black or has everything been purely accidental? Let's not forget, Ariana is an Italian woman!
