r&b music lost it's way once it stopped being about love and went ratchet

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

 

[Jasonmask]

It’s there. Just go on any streaming service and dig

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Deborah Cox and Tamia was on top just 20 yrs ago. How fast this thing spiraled downward in the space of 20 years.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

The music is out there
Stop making this lazy ass thread every other month

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

Old heads finna have a field day in this thread

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

R&b commercially is dead & it's been dead for a decade now.

Thanks to T-pain for helping open the flood gate for that auto tune sound that got every rapper tryna sing full songs.

People rather listen to that than hear real singers go off on songs & if they do they're listening to ariana grande & shawn Mendes.

R&b is officially a niche genre. It's a vibe now

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

 

[Master Teacher]

The fact white people like Adele or Sam Smith can win accolades for traditional RnB says it isn’t true.

Alicia Keys got major attention when she came out but drifted to the more hip-hop RnB,too.

I think people just want a more mashed up style than separate genre artist.

yes from cacs

the black youth have no interest in real R&B that's why its dead

 

[King Poetic]

R&B has always been ratchet

it was just said in other words in different eras at the time

nikkas need to stopped the bullshyt like other eras was pure and innocent

its like nikkas saying women of this era is more slutty than the women of the past

no they not... it’s just more technology today than it was prior to exposed these sluts

 

[Json]

yes from cacs

the black youth have no interest in real R&B that's why its dead

White people buy the majority of all music. Being mainstream vs niche by definition means you will pull in a diverse audience.

People’s buying habits changed.

Having songs that are played in clubs will guarantee you more audience than when you had Soul Train, American Bandstand, and just MTV/BET in general in strong rotation to get you listeners.

 

[Master Teacher]

White people buy the majority of all music. Being mainstream vs niche by definition means you will pull in a diverse audience.

People’s buying habits changed.

Having songs that are played in clubs will guaranteed you more audience than when you had Soul Train, American Bandstand, and just MTV/BET in general in strong rotation to get you listeners.

what does that have to do with anything I said

white people didn't listen to Teanie Marie, only black people did, she like the only white artist to ever do black music foreal she a legend to black people but white people don't play her music anywhere

culturally, R&B is not on the radar for the black youth, the R&B is the rap hybrid, people are making new R&B and its good, its just not a the forefront of the culture like it was before, why cant you grasp that

nobody cares what white people or the accolades, that's why you view as validation who gets those dumb awards, black don't listen to Adele she don't even make R&B, her music is like Celine Dion

Sam Smith has R&B songs but most of his music is pop

 

[macadomusic]

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Coli full of flabby and sick ears
Always complaining and never embracing something new
Here’s a real conversation
The music y’all big up so much
Your parents hated that shyt
The same music you hate on these youngster for
Is the same shyt we listened to but just more abrasive
But keep complaining and being a lame

 

[Colicat]

currently listening:
Ledisi - wildcard
Brandy- b7
Amber Riley- A moment


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