Musicians today are fake

[ApeNotKillApe]

To be fair, the music industry has always been fraudulent in one way or another, whether it was black musicians singing like white people so they could actually make some money or white people playing black music so they could get filthy rich.

I don't think black people or white people singing like each other is fraudulent, or using each others styles as an influence. 

Led Zepplin though, their case might be considered to be fraudulent, that level of copying.  One thing I can say for them is that I think they made better songs than all the guys they were ripping off though.

I was referring more specifically to the hijacking of rock and roll by white record producers and musicians that was carried out during the 40's and 50's, and it's not the emulation or merging of styles that annoys me, it's that no one knows the name Sister Rosetta Tharp while everyone knows the name Elvis Presley. Just pisses me off that credit isn't given where it's due, that the pioneers who struggled so much get so little recognition. And as for black musicians singing like white people, I was again referring to the mid 20th century, where yes, many black artists disguised their voices so there was a chance that white people would buy the records, I'm not holding it against the artists obviously, they were trying to earn a living, but it's a compromise that annoys me.