Young people don't want to hear R&B
Question: Why don't Black people like real singing anymore....from Black artists?
- Thread starter jadillac
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Not really. Kjlh in l.a plays the new r&b.
BmoreGorilla
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Examples of R&B singers out who can really sing that don't get automatically thrown to the 30 and over stations?
Sk3ptical
alhamdulillah
must be the blk people in your family listening to that crap because i dont know no blk people who rock with no fukking adeleWe invented this ish, and now we don't even like it.......but let Adele/Sam Smith do it and then we support them wholeheartedly with our $$$ and adulation. They clearly studied and are fans of Black music themselves......but we no longer are fans of.....ourselves.
Let Tyrese, Tank or whoever else do it and it's "too old sounding" or "boring". We disrespect our own over the silliest stuff. Had a white dude with a raspy voice sang Tyrese, "Shame" it'd been a hit song the world-over, and he'd get all sort of praise.....from Black people. And he might sound almost as good as Tyrese vocally, but we'll give him way more credit.
I mean, I get the white soul singer being a novelty...I get it.....AT FIRST, but 50-60 years in and the novelty has worn off. I'm not even saying they don't make good music, but it's no better than we are capable of and have done historically.
I don't dislike the auto-tune stuff, and I dont think every song needs to be a gospel-ballad vocal....but there's no balance for us. We have no appreciation for anything "different".
We've ALLOWED ourselves to be put in a box musically and are letting other ppl make BILLIONS of dollars doing what we invented/popularized. Something that comes natural to us from our heart/soul, is no longer cool.
We let the radio programmers turn us into sheep and tell us "singing isn't cool anymore.....playing an instrument is lame...writing good songs is passe....it's all about catchiness and nothing else" Meanwhile they were lulling us to sleep. Finessing us outta our own ish.
At this point, the only way it'll ever change is if urban radio FORCES real music back into the format. And they may lose alot of people initially, but over time people will adjust.
i only fukk with hiphop anyway
Singers doing music now only grew up with cussing in their musicThat'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 thiscould 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
I don't see how cussing bothers y'all
BmoreGorilla
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Really breh?
Chris Brown having a song called Liquor and him singing I just wanna drink and fukk is considered descriptive?
What i said isn't all encompassing. I can pick out 80s and 90s singers that weren't great singers and still have huge successReally breh?
Chris Brown having a song called Liquor and him singing I just wanna drink and fukk is considered descriptive?
That isn't the point of this thread. And liquor is a great song
That type of music doesn't get machine put behind them. That's the point of this thread
There are plenty
RammerJammer
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The problem is, a majority of the urban stations are owned by Clear Channel and like two more companies. I could go to Chicago right now and hear the same stuff I hear in Montgomery
Birdie
Banned
Because that's not what Black people are instructed to like by the machine the same way Hip-Hop has fallen into the embarrassment it is today because we don't control our culture.
BmoreGorilla
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And that's the problem. Image has become more important than talent
Paradise50
Superstar
white man sold these artist to do all this new age trash r&b and let white singers takeover the soulful lane....god damn shame I gotta listen to cacs to hear real r&b.
BmoreGorilla
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That's bullshyt
KravenMorehead™
Barrel Brothers.®
It gets accepted from white people because unlike their own, black people don't percieve white people through the prism of "swag". White folks get a blank canvas for expression. If adele was a black woman she wouldn't sell millions of records today. She would lose all that weight real quick.
The truth is that in this country black people fetishize each other. But because they're the same skin as each other, they can hide behind that, so instead of calling it a fetish they call it "having standards." Look at the dating game for example. That's why black people do better in foreign markets. Whether it's music, film, dating, etc.
The truth is that in this country black people fetishize each other. But because they're the same skin as each other, they can hide behind that, so instead of calling it a fetish they call it "having standards." Look at the dating game for example. That's why black people do better in foreign markets. Whether it's music, film, dating, etc.
