90s Brehs were Boyz II Men universally loved & listened to by everyone?

[Michael's Black Son]

Yes. For a while. But they tapered off. By then they had a ton of hits.

 

[young3000]

All those white boy bands in the late 90s copied boys 2 men. The biggest group of the 90s.

You mean New Edition

 

[Dynamite James]

You mean New Edition

New Edition paved the way for boyz II men and new kids on the block but had broken up by the early 90s. I’m mainly talking about the late 90s boy bands.. which was a response to boys 2 men.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

YES!




This song still gets burn whenever im in my feelings

 

[skylove4]

Yes they were. They were so popular their music was played at church during Mother’s Day. I remember my parents forcing me a budding agnostic to sing “A song for mama” with other cats from the youth choir, i lip sung that shyt with the face during my part

 

[FluffyEyes]

I forgot which artist said this, but they said "the singers want to be the rappers, while the rappers want to be singers".

This is so true. R&B has enmeshed with Rap for so long that it's mainstream version has taken on the tenets of that genre.

I heard Tank discussing why newer male R&B singers are having such a hard time catching up to the women in terms of mainstream viability and he said what you said as well as that rappers of today are doing double duty basically, rapping and singing. In that, where does the Black male R&B dude fit in??

The modern day songbird is either a relic of the times (old singers that keep doing those 90s reunions), white folks cosplaying as Neo soul singers (Moonchild, Hiatus Kayote, Mayer Hawthrone, and Yebba), indie folks that you would have to dig through YouTube and Spotify to find (Eric Roberson, Nick Harim, etc), and Bandcamp daydreamers.

Hopefully it's a cyclical situation but we are coming up on a generation that may not be as familiar with R&B so idk.

The real moneymakers are determined to suck the machine off for everything it's worth because flow>>>>meaningful lyrics.

I mean ppl are writing, it's just in such a straight forward manner, not much in the way of flowery language or metaphors.

 

[UpAndComing]

Middle Class music is the GOAT