ARE WHITES TAKING OVER RHYTHM AND BLUES? (1988/89 article in Ebony)

[IllmaticDelta]

...this mirrors everything going on today as far as the industry goes which includes cultural appropriation, blacks having to water down-sacrifice their sound, white pop charts/crossover biases, white media elevation of whites doing "black" music etc... even some on the George Michael backlash

..........there are even some criticisms by blacks who felt the the R&B being made at the time within the black community was lacking in Soul.That sounds alot like what I read/hear today

 

[IllmaticDelta]

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The whole industry thing about the radio and the biases based on race along with cultural appropriation.This also helps explain the whole Sam Smith, Hozier & Adele vs Black traditional soul vs HipHop/EDM sounding Soul, dynamic

 

[IllmaticDelta]

 

[GoldenGlove]

Subs... good find.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

 

[mobbinfms]

Good find.
Had no idea George Michael won best soul/r&b album for Faith

 

[Jay Kast]

Im fukkin dyin at that video! Straight smacked his food LOL

Man! Thats the music you get rowdy to for REAL! MOP!

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Good find.
Had no idea George Michael won best soul/r&b album for Faith

Yeah, white brits have been getting their Adele on for almost 60 years

 

[mobbinfms]

Yeah, white brits have been getting their Adele on for almost 60 years

Oh yeah...I have no disillusions about white people of all nationalities, shapes, sizes, creeds and religions stealing as much black music as they possibly can since the dawn of recorded music. Just didn't know about George Michael specifically.

 

[Nomadum]

I never understood how anyone can claim any one race is taking over any genre.

I just listen to killa ass music white-black-brown-yellow-purp doesn't matter.

edited for the wrong word, good looking out @mobbinfms

 

[big bun]

I remember that article!!

 

[mobbinfms]

I never understood how anyone can claim any one religion is taking over any genre.

 

[BrehMan]

Shari Hadley still looks the same.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

its crazy cuz we always talk about how 80s era R&B lacked soul and look at how so much R&B today lacks soul. Makes me appreciate what we had in the 90s so much more. White R&B singers outside of Jon B were basically nonexistent