Alicia Keys Replacment is in effect

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not to agree or disagree but what I think the brothas are trying to say, is that these days the mainstream music machines would much rather sell her or macklemore to the mainstream of America because they will accept that more willingly. Just watch everytime an R&b sounding song cones out by a white artist. Its interesting as in the past the execs feared the music whether from Tina Marie or KC and the Sunshine Band. Now they realize that rock isn't strong enough and they can sell a Timberlake to the still white washed but more culturally integrated white audience.

and I think r&b is done because of our cultural integration. I have a diverse set of friends and family and its interesting how loveless their music is compared to mine. They think all of the passion and crooning of my old school music is corny and over the top. They don't even see the beautiful arrangements of these songs. To them disco is something rock fans got together to burn, which to me is a hatred of love and some beautiful music. These cultures are what our youth are growing up integrating into. Add to that, the all out war on dumping and the poor excuse of so called rappers like Drake taking up studio space for real singers. But even he is dissed for simpin. R&b is just dead.
 

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its a shame this agenda driven/cliche crap like this keeps getting posted with a white artist comes up and all of a sudden you dudes go to this extreme ass paranoia of your so called precious music
 

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This girl isn't a replacement for anybody at least not yet. Alicia Keys' last album did in 1 week what her's did in total almost a year ago. What's hurting R&B artists is them distancing themselves from what made them in the first place. Alicia Keys' best work was her Hip Hop influenced brand of R&B co-produced by longtime partner Krucial Keys. The more she branched out from that sound, the more the quality of her music declined along with the sales. Same goes for Usher. His biggest song is a Hip Hop inspired club banger ("Yeah"), but he insists on making singles out "DJ Got Us Falling In Love" and a few others that sound like that.


it needs to be taken back all way to live instrumentation/studio bands/sessions. Same equipment also. There are also too many solo artist, most of these singers need to be in a group and stop writing their own shyt. Besides production the lyrical aspect of the game is washed also. Producers are trash too, back in the day a song verse was spaced out/segmented and didn't necessarily have words hitting on every bar. To me that brought more feel and emotion to a song. Product today seems so cluttered
 

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Sorry to break it to you breh but Alica BEEN wack.

all those piano intervals and arpeggios and song composition were straight jakked frm Chopin and Mozart.
But noone who ows those pieces and estate went after her.
alicia cook swagger jakked DEAD EUROPEAN MEN. smh.
 
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bye bye Alicia Keys. White Folks have no more use for you

Just listen to this girls diction, attacks and releases...this girl has studied Alicia down to the T

R&B is gone for black folks :manny:


Yo Ariane Grande is like a young Mariah out there. She can sing her ass off brehs. And she's hella cute too :ahh:.
 

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She resurrected that old school soulful piff. :whoo:

teenage boys need an italian girl like this to blow up.
trust her fan base are mostly boys. and her getting in with miller and big sean helped her star rise higher.
 

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Oh no, weee black people betta run for the hills. Here come the majestick sounding white gurl who cumin to steel our 'culcha' just like when this angal came thru fiftiin year ago



How will we sufive??:rudy:
 

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Oh no, weee black people betta run for the hills. Here come the majestick sounding white gurl who cumin to steel our 'culcha' just like when this angal came thru fiftiin year ago



How will we sufive??:rudy:



i dont think shes trying to steal culture. that soul shyt Italians been trying to do started in the Bronx and Brooklyn with doo wop and soul singing.

so idk if you're 100% correct. unless u wanna say doo wop was a culture stolen in the 50's by them italians and sicilians.
 
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