Dear Friends,
I have been an interesting conversation about cultural appropriation recently. I don't know if this happens to you, but words that people say often stay with me, for months, years, forever; and they shape my thoughts ever and anon.
So, what to do with this song, Apache, by The Shadows? I offer you this bit of reading on the topic of cultural appropriation in pop music; and now that you have read it, you can decide what should be done with the song, in a cover version by The Ventures. Or try this one. And this one. One more?
I think what I would do, is apologize, publicly retract the title, and choose a new one for it: How about "Reparation?"
