The problem with Current R&B is that everyone makes slow boring songs. We need music You can step to

[avon barksdale]

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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[SAJ!!]

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A low energy version of



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[TinFoilSnapBack]

Your post becomes invalid once you realize how many new musicians are sampling the 70s-90s

You actually further proved my point, genius. The 90s was the height of sampling, and all they did was take from 60s, 70s, and 80s music. Therefore, this pedestalization of 90s music needs to be scrutinized the same way y'all scrutinize modern-day music. I'm an 80s baby, and a huge fan of 90s R&B music, but I can look at shyt objectively. Most folks in their 30s like me cannot seem to look at music objectively unless they're musicians.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

You actually further proved my point, genius. The 90s was the height of sampling, and all they did was take from 60s, 70s, and 80s music. Therefore, this pedestalization of 90s music needs to be scrutinized the same way y'all scrutinize modern-day music. I'm an 80s baby, and a huge fan of 90s R&B music, but I can look at shyt objectively. Most folks in their 30s like me cannot seem to look at music objectively unless they're musicians.

But the 90s also had original music though. The 90s - early 2000s was the epitome of hip hop and rap.

 

[TinFoilSnapBack]

But the 90s also had original music though. The 90s - early 2000s was the epitome of hip hop and rap.

Damn near all rap mainstream rap music in that era was sampled. Pick a random song, and type it into the search bar at whosampled dot com.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

OP is right. Almost NONE of the music today is exciting, uplifting and makes you want to dance. Almost all of it makes me feel sleepy and is low energy. The only way I could find half this shyt remotely entertaining is under the influence.

The 70s, 80s and 90s and even early 2000s were relatively more optimistic times. We're living in a darker time period, where there is no optimism for the future and it reflects in our music.

These are key points.

The term "Soul" was shorthand to describe the spiritual, uplifting essence of the music.

Those classic tunes that made you want to get things done, now seem to be products of a vanished Black culture.

 

[SAJ!!]

These are key points.

The term "Soul" was shorthand to describe the spiritual, uplifting essence of the music.

Those classic tunes that made you want to get things done, now seem to be products of vanished Black culture.

Breh, this is what I'm talking about. Good looking out!

Songs like that represent a by-gone era in music. The bassline. The lyrics. The pulsating energy. The motivation. You name it, it had it.

Nowadays, you have artists making music for people who hang out at diners at 2AM trying to score drugs.

 

[Dynamite James]

Prime example of low energy

 

[Dynamite James]

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Sounds like someone made a song based off of the bass off “another bites the dust” snd “good times”. That’s a pop record

 

[Leao2005]

There is good rnb artist. You just not listening to them

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

A low energy version of

Both those are SLOWER than the song I posted, chief. "Energy" comes from the beat.​

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Sounds like someone made a song based off of the bass off “another bites the dust” snd “good times”. That’s a pop record

Wrong on both counts since the bass is INXS' "Need You Tonight" and the song is a mix of RnB, electropop/funk, and disco.​

 

[TEH]

Low energy. Where is the rhythm?

This is a better example

 

[Still Benefited]

Its some form of talk-singing..

I noticed the trend began in the early 2000s to provide cover to wack singers.

Tough to say,because it seems like Kellz popularized "talk singing" that but he isn't a wack singer. Possibly its just what they know because its what they grew up on.
Drake/Aaliyah of course is a big inspiration for majority of these singers.
Rappers seem to fill in the void as far as rnb to step to.
I want RNB singers to make music with meaning,that doesn't have to rhyme like its a rap smh.
But there aren't many poets left these days that didn't come up on hiphop.
Which even in hiphop deep meaning takes a backseat to rhyming.