"Cultural Appropriation"

[paulpablo]

Cultural appropriation does make things better sometimes though, led zeppelin took all the songs they stole to a better level than what they were.

Lol, that was not cultural appropriation, but artistic mayhem. Go listen to some Howlin' Wolf and tell us again how Zep did it "better".

Oooooh, the guitars were louder!

What they did smacks of cultural appropriation, but worse than that, they lied about authorship. No one would think Page / Plant et al had actually worked on a killing floor ... but they cashed the royalty payments all the same. That's theft of intellectual property.

Yeh well my opinions on that are mixed.
I do think the songs I've heard sound better, I agree what they did was theft of intellectual property.
My comment that cultural appreciate is sometimes good because led zeppelin did it so well was half a joke.
I was about to comment that to me it seems that these things like stealing relics, destroying graves or whatever, may or may not be cultural appropriation, but it's overall wrong because it's theft/vandalism.
Stealing someone's property is what's wrong, but not being inspired in terms of style. I don't even know what taking someone's culture without their consent could really even mean. Or why in and of itself it would be bad.