Coldplay released the video for their Beyoncé collaboration Hymn for the Weekend, and stills from the video immediately drew criticism.

The film, shot in Mumbai, India, features the band members, including front man Chris Martin, celebrating a Holi festival with Indian children.

In the video, Beyoncé appears in head coverings, henna, and what looks to be traditional Indian garb. Questions have arisen about the appropriateness of her attire.
Whether of not Black Americans have the power to be cultural appropriators is an important discussion with no easy answers.

Coldplay, however, is the primary offender. The group has in the past used another Black woman to represent the "exotic." Rihanna stars in their video Princess of China dressed, strangely, in Japanese attire.

In this discussion, we must defer to those who identify with the cultures. Twitter user @VelveteenDream has some thoughts on the matter. Be sure to check them out.

Update: The video's director, Ben Mor, is Indian. An interview with him about the video was published here.

Watch the video below.

"To be woman and to be black is to born knowing your beauty does not belong to you," Crystal Valentine says in this spoken word performance with Aaliyah Jihad titled "To Be Black and Woman and Alive", centered on dismantling the type of cultural beauty appropriation that has black men devaluing black traits on black women while praising them on others.

At just 16-years-old, Amandla Steinberg already knows what's up. Watch as she perfectly articulates the problem with cultural appropriation. Amandla calls out some big stars for cashing in on a culture they have no ties to so succinctly that all we can say is yasssss!

Akilah aka SmoothieFreak absolutely nailed this satirical look at cultural appropriation.