Guilty Pleasure: Black Twitter Trends Over White People Songs Black People Love
AME Choppa had Black Twitter lit.
A tweet from AME Choppa went viral after the user turned a negative into a positive on Wednesday. Turning the spotlight on Black Twitter, the person asked Black folks to post their favorite songs by white people that would make them go viral.
“Black People: Let’s flip the table. If you were at a party and they caught you on camera singing a White people song, which artist/song would make you go viral?”
“For me, it’s Linkin Park – ‘Numb.’”
And the hilarious tweets rolled in.
Of course, someone posted Black folks’ guilty pleasure 2005’s “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” by alt-indie band Panic At The Disco.
Twitter user I Am Me raised Panic At The Disco with Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles,” featured in 2004’s Wayans’ Brothers comedy classic
White Chicks.
Another person had Alanis Morisette’s Grammy-award winning single “You Oughta Know” from 1995 on lock.
And Black Twitter would be remiss if it didn’t mention Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.”
A Black Twitter delegate also posted a video of a man Crip-walking to Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten.”
Twitter user Flawda Perc hit the folks over the head with Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know.”
AME Choppa’s now-viral tweet came in response to a tweet of two white girls rapping Lil Baby’s lyrics on April 26.
Black Twitter was quick to let the tweet’s originator that they weren’t impressed.
One Twitter summed up it best.
