{"id":1974575,"date":"2023-07-16T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-humiliated-after-trying-to-make-country-cover-of-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-a-racial-issue\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T15:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:59:50","slug":"washington-post-humiliated-after-trying-to-make-country-cover-of-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-a-racial-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-humiliated-after-trying-to-make-country-cover-of-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-a-racial-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post embarrassed over attempt to racialize Tracy Chapman&#8217;s &#8216;Fast Car&#8217; country cover."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-post-humiliated-after-trying-to-make-country-cover-of-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-a-racial-issue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1974575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Washington \u200dPost&#8217;s Attempt to\u2063 Make a Country\u200d Cover\u2063 of Tracy Chapman&#8217;s &#8216;Fast Car&#8217; a Racial Issue \u200cBackfires<\/h2>\n<p>The Washington Post recently \u2062published a\u200b deeply flawed article by style reporter Emily \u200cYahr,\u200b titled\u200c &#8220;Tracy Chapman, \u200bLuke Combs and the complicated response to &#8216;Fast\u200d Car.'&#8221; However, it\u2062 seems that the only one \u2063finding\u2062 the issue complicated is Yahr herself, not anyone else, including\u2063 Tracy Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-blasted-for-racist-fact-check-of-gop-senator-tim-scott-leftists-defend-senator\/\" title=\"WaPo Blasted For \u2018Racist\u2019 Fact-Check Of GOP Senator Tim Scott, Leftists Defend Senator\">article focused<\/a> on the race \u200bcontroversy \u200bsurrounding Luke \u200bCombs&#8217; cover of Chapman&#8217;s\u2062 1988 hit \u200bsingle &#8220;Fast \u2064Car.&#8221; Yahr\u200c tried\u200b to portray it \u2063as a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-humiliated-after-trying-to-make-country-cover-of-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-a-racial-issue\/\" title=\"Washington Post embarrassed over attempt to racialize Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' country cover.\">racially charged situation<\/a>, \u2062but many of \u200cher \u2064points\u2064 turned\u2063 out to be \u2062fake \u200cnews.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yahr,\u2062 Combs&#8217; cover \u200bof &#8220;Fast \u200cCar&#8221; gained \u2064immense popularity and went \u2062viral on TikTok, eventually\u2063 reaching No. \u20621 \u2062on \u2064the Billboard Country\u200c Airplay chart. \u2064This should \u2063be seen as a great achievement\u2063 for both Combs and Chapman. As an artist, having your \u200bpast \u2063hit \u200cbecome\u2064 a \u200bhit for someone else\u2063 means you \u2062have become relevant\u200d to a whole\u200c new \u200dgeneration \u200dof\u2063 fans. \u2063Chapman, who\u2063 has crossed over from\u2062 pop \u200bto country, is\u2064 being exposed to an entirely\u2064 different audience than \u2063she has ever reached before.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Washington Post saw\u200b this success \u200das \u2062clouded, \u200bracist, \u200cand \u2062even \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberals-please-grow-a-spine-and-say-no-to-child-gender-transition\/\" title=\"Liberals, Please Grow A Spine And Say No To Child Gender Transition\">anti-gay<\/a>. \u2062Yahr ponderously\u2062 wrote, &#8220;it&#8217;s\u2063 clouded by the\u200c fact that,\u2063 as \u2063a Black queer woman, Chapman, 59, would have \u200balmost \u2064zero chance \u2063of\u2063 that achievement herself in country \u200bmusic.&#8221; This point is \u200babsurd, as Chapman has already\u200c received recognition for \u2062&#8221;Fast Car&#8221; with Grammy \u2062nominations\u200d and \u2063wins.<\/p>\n<blockquote\u2062 class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p \u200ddir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As Luke \u200dCombs\u2019s \u200dhit cover \u200bof Tracy Chapman\u2019s \u201cFast Car\u201d\u200d dominates the country\u2062 charts,\u2062 it\u2019s bringing up \u200csome \u2064complicated emotions\u2063 in \u200bfans &#038; singers who \u200dknow that Chapman, \u2063as a queer Black\u200b woman,\u200c would have an almost zero\u200b chance at that\u2064 achievement herself: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7pCIMW5F0N\">https:\/\/t.co\/7pCIMW5F0N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emily Yahr (@EmilyYahr) \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmilyYahr\/status\/1679519177789386752?\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chapman\u2062 herself\u200b expressed\u200c gratitude for\u2063 Combs&#8217; success with her song. \u2063In an interview\u2064 with Billboard,\u200d she\u2063 said, &#8220;I \u200dnever\u200c expected to\u200d find \u2064myself on the country \u2062charts, \u200dbut I&#8217;m \u200dhonored to\u200b be there. \u200cI&#8217;m happy for Luke and his success \u2062and grateful that new fans have found and embraced &#8216;Fast Car.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Chapman has \u200ceven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">made history<\/a> as\u2064 the first \u200bgay black woman to\u200b have\u2062 the sole credit \u2062for writing\u2063 a No. 1\u2062 country\u200d hit. This should be celebrated, \u200dnot used to stoke\u200d racial\u2064 division like\u2064 the Washington Post attempted \u200bto do.<\/p>\n<p>Many Twitter\u2062 users called out the Washington Post for their \u200cflawed article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" \u2063lang=\"en\">I feel like the\u200d author\u200d of \u2062this\u200d piece has never heard of Tracy Chapman\u200b before and therefore \u200bthinks no one\u2064 else has \u200deither. \u200dEven though she had major chart success \u200din \u200bthe 80s and 90s<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim\u2064 (@realjimconroy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realjimconroy\/status\/1679541432023932950?\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote\u200c class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p\u2064 dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s \u2062a powerful song.\u2062 Powerful lyrics. \u2062Talk \u200cabout the \u200btrue meaning \u2064of the \u200bsong. Diversity\u2063 has nothing to \u2062do with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tito (@T_RIVE22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T_RIVE22\/status\/1679676548717379584?\">July 14, \u20632023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p \u2063dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Everything is racism if you&#8217;re \u2064WaPo<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2064 Woven\u2063 Dissent \u2064(@WovenDissent) <a \u2062href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WovenDissent\/status\/1679531139147476992?\">July 13,\u2062 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p \u200cdir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">She owns the\u200c song, right? She&#8217;s getting paid \u200cbig \u2063time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2064blark \u200cblark (@blarkblark) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blarkblark\/status\/1679560892336185363?\">July\u2064 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tracy Chapman understands and appreciates the respect she \u2063has received for her work, which\u2063 is\u200c now \u200ba hit among \u200dtwo different generations of fans. \u2064This is something to celebrate,\u200d not twist\u2063 into a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teacher-of-the-year-rodney-robinson-posts-joke-calling-for-mitch-mcconnell-to-be-beaten-up-like-rand-paul\/\" title=\"Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson Posts \u2018Joke\u2019 Calling for Mitch McConnell to Be Beaten Up Like Rand Paul\">racial issue<\/a> like \u200dthe \u200dWashington \u200bPost attempted\u200d to do.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/washington-post-humiliated-trying-make-country-cover-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-racial-issue\/\">The \u200dWestern Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post twisted a white country music star&#8217;s cover of a black artist&#8217;s song into a racial controversy, but their claims were mostly false. 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