Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai

Bollocks to "cultural appropriation", wrong-headed, anti-culture nonsense. You aren't really offended by this, you're just made to think you should be but really, this is how art works. It's all derivative to some degree. If it's not done to lampoon or mock then it's fine. Stevie Wonder himself was influenced by jazz greats and people like Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, James Brown etc. Is it just because Jay Kay is white? Fuck that. Let's write off the Beatles and the Stones then as they plumbed RnB decades ago. It's just creativity, you take stuff you like and you channel it into your own art. Nobody should be offended by that. It's a great compliment. Just get over yourself. Anyway, the band are very much of their time in terms of 90's sound but they were stand-out for what they were doing. Some great tracks on here but I probably prefer Return of the Space Cowboy

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