Question: Why don't Black people like real singing anymore....from Black artists?

[Benjamin Sisko]

Becauze the white man's ice is colder to these negroes

 

[DreadBrown]

Adult Black women are huge Adele fans. All my cousin wanted from me this year was to buy her Adele's CD.
I don't think she's literally bought any music album in 2-3 YEARS.

You don't sell 7 million albums in several weeks without major crossover.

I think thats more a woman thing than a black thing

 

[jadillac]

I'm convinced people eventually accept what ever is on the radio most times. People don't want to feel left out or alone in their tastes of culture. The group think effect.

Hell I remember an article I read on here that described experiments in regards to playing a song UNTIL you people liked it. Hear it on the radio enough, most zombies will eventually come to.

YES!!!!

This is why I made the point about, nothing will change until radio FORCES it to change. People will adjust naturally to what's being played. It may lose you money in the beginning though.

And folks can say "radio is dead" and "nobody listens to radio anymore", but there's still tens of millions of ppl who get their idea of what's cool from radio.

 

[CrimsonTider]

That song is good, I like it personally....but it's too wordy breh, and filled with profanity.

Nobody on a LARGE scale, knows that song word-for-word. And that's why it's not a major hit.

It's a hit tho and the wordiness is plus. R&B singers could never be that descriptive in previous generations.

Not to mention when is the last time a song not on some "fukk these bytches" got as much play

And other than the "Dab songs" ( Jumpman, pipe it up, watch out) that song got the biggest response in the club NYE.

Which give me hope that singers can get a great response with a song in the club with subject matter that isn't "Loyal" ( which I love btw) but singers don't have to be on that shyt all the time like rappers

 

[jadillac]

Part of the problem is people cant sing like they used to. Not as many people raised in the church. Image is more important than talent which is sad

Don't believe that lie, breh. I mean I hear what ur saying about the church influence, but there's still plenty of Black vocal talent out there. But yes, the difference is in cultivating/training vocal talent.

 

[Paradise]

I agree and disagree with you OP. There are still some singers that still sing from the heart and not this silly old bull the younger generation likes to listen to.

Adele, Sam Smith and other white artist that make "blue eyed soul" are our days Pat Boone.

Back in the day they used Pat Boone to get "colored" music to white people... which basically took credit away from the black artist that originally sang it.


Are there black people out here that listen to Adele and Sam Smith of course.

Because if you listen to mainstream radio stations with mostly black listeners they are play white artist on those as well.

We will never truly have a genre of anything that is truly ours...

 

[PortCityProphet]

That song is good, I like it personally....but it's too wordy breh, and filled with profanity.

Nobody on a LARGE scale, knows that song word-for-word. And that's why it's not a major hit.

That's another thing artist need to drop some of the profanity. Use it for their aggressive songs cause fukk and p*ssy and other profanities are aggressive words but rnb isn't supposed to be that aggressive (I blame Robert for some of this could be someone else tho ) but rnb is supposed to give that deep soft emotion when talking about love, and heartbreak and addING all the unnecessary cussing ruins it

 

[KinksandCoils]

R&B artist cater to 90s and 2000 babies. I hate to say it because I'm a 90s baby/kid myself but I like old school ish.

 

[jadillac]

Becauze the white man's ice is colder to these negroes

That's too deep for this thread breh.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Don't believe that lie, breh. I mean I hear what ur saying about the church influence, but there's still plenty of Black vocal talent out there. But yes, the difference is in cultivating/training vocal talent.

Im just going by what I hear which is a bunch of people trying to sing rap lyrics in a falsetto. Where's the great voice of this generation?

 

[jadillac]

Im just going by what I hear which is a bunch of people trying to sing rap lyrics in a falsetto. Where's the great voice of this generation?

he/she was told they were too "old sounding" before their career ever gotoff the ground.

As long as there are American Idol, the Voice type of shows, you know there's still talent out there.

 

[CrimsonTider]

You're right but there's more to it.

Black people definitely out here supporting the likes of Adele and others.

I'm convinced people eventually accept what ever is on the radio most times. People don't want to feel left out or alone in their tastes of culture. The group think effect.

Hell I remember an article I read on here that described experiments in regards to playing a song UNTIL people liked it. Hear it on the radio enough, most zombies will eventually come to...

YES!!!!

This is why I made the point about, nothing will change until radio FORCES it to change. People will adjust naturally to what's being played. It may lose you money in the beginning though.

And folks can say "radio is dead" and "nobody listens to radio anymore", but there's still tens of millions of ppl who get their idea of what's cool from radio.

Radio dictates EVERYTHING.

We pretend to be more sophsticated on this site but we really aren't. I upped a thread that someone posted about Young Dro "in the city" months after it was released and after it blew up crazy and it had like 4 replies originally then everyone came in the thread saying how dope the song was etc

But us folk that grew up in the 90s where R&B was mixed in heavily on contemporary urban radio have to realize every year that someone enters the 16-25 age group the less R&B they have heard

 

[BmoreGorilla]

he/she was told they were too "old sounding" before their career ever gotoff the ground.

As long as there are American Idol, the Voice type of shows, you know there's still talent out there.

Whats crazy tho is that when you put on the radio the only people really singing are white folks.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Part of the problem is people cant sing like they used to. Not as many people raised in the church. Image is more important than talent which is sad

This is a flat out lie

 

[Mowgli]

White man finances the music and stopped.

Lot if albums were trash.

They were making money with no cost music low talent artists.

Cost money to have all them musicians VA one producer with protools.

Greedy case body bagged the music