anyone else not really feelin afrobeats like that?

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

It is a fad with no soul.

On god. This thread is what white people were like when rap started. Sometimes popular culture leaves you behind. Accept your fate brehs

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Like a lot of music this genre can easily be a turn off if your look at the fans of it ….

douchey cocky Africans/ Caribbean people for the most part from my observation …

but it still sounds good …

 

[dr. pill biden]

its coo as background music outside but its basically like salsa to me. not my culture, can’t understand what they’re saying, sounds like vacation. except where as a lot of salseros got pipes and there is hella musicality involved with the instruments, nooooone of them afrobeats artists can sing

for example tems is like the worst of the worst modern r&b: downtempo low effort no vocal ability no soul moan-singing and the lyrics is azz.

not saying everybody gotta blow but all things considered its just not palatable to listen to nor to relate to to be a fan of it

 

[Vandelay]

It's cool, but it doesn’t hit like reggae/dancehall hit 20 years ago.

Issa vibe more than anything.

 

[3rdWorld]

Of course you couldnt feel it, you wouldnt know how..When was the last time you actually danced..actually moved your fat ass on a dancefloor


The US scene sadly became anti-dancing ever since the hardcore hiphop baggy jean era, until today..now you feel like a clown if you even dance.

Music was better when you could actually move to it. The era's when Black people were dancing had the best music.

 

[Fill Collins]

Afrobeats is mid af, a lot of music these days is just mf's phoning it in

 

[Buddy]

I haven't heard enough of the nuance or personalities to understand why I'd prefer one song/artist over another. Don't know how true it is but you get the sense that if you like one you like em all.

Of course you couldnt feel it, you wouldnt know how..When was the last time you actually danced..actually moved your fat ass on a dancefloor


The US scene sadly became anti-dancing ever since the hardcore hiphop baggy jean era, until today..now you feel like a clown if you even dance.

Music was better when you could actually move to it. The era's when Black people were dancing had the best music.

Nah there was a good run around 06-09 thanks to the south and ironically enough the baggy era/east coast hated it. A brother broke a good sweat at clubs and parties in them days

 

[Hey_zeus]

It's aight. Used to date a chick that's all she listened to.

 

[Edub]

They aight…. like just ok, neva listening on my own…..

 

[ignorethis]

I’m an African and can’t stand most of it, most of it is mid; high production value but no real creativity.

That’s the same way I feel about most R&B, but that makes sense because both are genres targeted towards women and women will listen to anything lovey dovey with decent production value, even if it’s the same 10 chord progressions and melodies being recycled for 500 songs.

Their are some undeniably great Afrobeats songs, but that’s the case with any genre. Afrobeats fans just have simple taste, my friends that work in Afrobeats at high levels have even said this, the audience don’t wanna hear new shyt, they like what they like,

 

[DPresidential]

Same. I don't say it out loud cus I don't wanna be called a musical c00n

This.

It feels like watered down reggae. I'm from the era of old school reggae. This shyt is nl boring to me by comparison.

 

[popogogo]

I put on a playlist a few weeks ago and just let it go for a few hours while I was working.
All of the songs were fine, but indistinguishable to me.
Like if I heard a song and it came on 2 songs later, I could not ever tell if I had already heard it or not.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Only on thecoli
You nikkas need help
But be problack as fukk in another thread

 

[FeverPitch2]

Yeah I was expecting it to sound like Fela Kuti, i.e. funkier.

why is everything mid to slow tempo now? I vape weed every day but I can't listen to slow, "wavy/vibey" lethargic ass music all day. I even fukk with ambient/drone music but sometimes I wanna tap my feet and groove to something. At least Amapiano has more of a deep house influence.

Where's the groove? Where's the FUNK? Where's the musicality? wheres the music for black people to dance too fr fr? where are the fukking BASS LINES? It's like the only dance music we can make now is house music, and i fukk with house. But if you listened to modern black music, you would think funk music never existed. And it's arguably the blackest genre of music we ever invented.

Black Americans need to bring back boogie music like the stuff from 1978-1982. It's mostly electronic so it doesn't sound too old-timey. It's groovy and you can dance to it, you can water it down a bit and make it more poppy, the subject matter is fun and harmless.

The success of Steve Lacy's Bad Habit show the audience is hungry for actual MUSIC, and bad habit wasn't even groovy like that.

I've been screaming this for years.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

I prefer Foundational Black American beats, thank you.