Why Is Adele Getting Play on Hip-Hop Stations???

[Insensitive]

Obviously, black people fukk with Adele and are requesting the song. Coli militants don't represent the black populace at large.

Adele's music is R&B. Timberlake and Thicke have been getting play on Black stations for years now.

Her music kinda reminds me of Whitney and Mariah in the 90s..

Breh.
IF her music is getting played on a HIP HOP STATION something is CLEARLY amiss.

You don't hear Jay-Z on the "Country western" station DO YOU ?
You don't hear System of a down on "Smooth Jazz/Easy Listening" station DO YOU ?
Posters so intent on combating invisible coli militants they ignore the TOPIC of the thread.

"Requesting a Song" NAH, more like her label said "Gimme 30,000 spins in this
region, on this channel, at this time or you lose your damn job as a DJ".

Now I can't personally say I've heard Adele on the "Hip-Hop" stations but then again, I rarely if ever
listen to the radio.

You just mentioned 3 pop artists....


Adele reminds you of Whitney? In what way?

Timberlake and Robin Thicke pretty obviously make "R&B" music not the contemporary
"Pop" of Katy Perry or Taylor Swift.
So, no, I wouldn't call them "Pop" artists if we're talking about the actual MUSIC.

 

[Scoop]

Best soul artist out

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

That's exactly the point i'm making.
When black people don't even know what our own genres sound like...

yea. its a shame.

we've been dumbed down so much to the point where anything with a good singing voice is considered r&b or soul now. SMH.

EDIT: post above me just called her the "best soul artist out"

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Black people need to stop supporting radio

 

[Sane]

I listen to a lot of old school R&B (James Brown stays in rotation for me).
Adele has the B (blues), but her music is devoid of the R (rhythm).
When I think of R&B, this comes to my mind.

But then again, I think most of today's R&B is just pop slowed down and sung in falsetto





I don't know if Adele has ever had this sound.

That joint

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Adele, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Bieber, Diplo, all make a killing cause of their fans...who love black music but don't feel the same way about black people. So now they have artists they can relate too. Same with all of these trap EDM guys like RL Grime and Bro Safari.

 

[Gold]

Timberlake and Robin Thicke pretty obviously make "R&B" music not the contemporary
"Pop" of Katy Perry or Taylor Swift.
So, no, I wouldn't call them "Pop" artists if we're talking about the actual MUSIC.

I'll admit I dont listen to Justin Timberlake or Robin Thicke.

I was just thinking of the music that he did with Timbaland and that entire phase.

I'm guessing he's completely changed his style since then?

 

[Insensitive]

I'll admit I dont listen to Justin Timberlake or Robin Thicke.

I was just thinking of the music that he did with Timbaland and that entire phase.

I'm guessing he's completely changed his style since then?

The music he did with the Neptunes and Timbaland fits "R&B" to me and records like this :


Do not exist if Funk and Disco never came into being.

Robin Thicke is pretty much R&B through and through,I mean I don't think there's
much room for interpreting what he's been doing from the jump.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I wouldnt call it 'rnb' (which is a term white people made up to get other whites to buy 'negro music')

The term R&B came about because black people didn't want their music to be called "race music".

more like 'white soul'. Sam Smith, Ed sheeran, Amy Winehouse they're all the same.

"white soul" is R&B


an Afram (GeorgeWoods) coined the term

"Two years down the road, in 1964, Woods coined the phrase “blue-eyed soul” referring to The Righteous Brothers. Six years later, the term got heavy use for the Osmond Brothers’ hit, “One Bad Apple,” when the group sounded very similar to the Jackson 5."

The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia

Nothing new true, but Adele makes even less sense to me because she isn't even those genres.

But yes I agree, this is the same reason, cac machine

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but she is....Adele is basically a torch singer, a sub genre of the blues-jazz,


Torch song

A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.[1][2] The term comes from the saying, "to carry a torch for someone", or to keep aflame the light of an unrequited love. Tommy Lyman started the use in his praise of My Melancholy Baby.[3]

Torch singing is more of a niche than a genre, and can stray from the traditional jazz-influenced style of singing, although the American tradition of the torch song typically relies upon the melodic structure of the blues.[2] Some examples of torch songs are "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (1927), "Lili Marlene" (1938), "One for My Baby" (1943), "Cry Me a River" (1953), "The Man That Got Away" (1954),[4] "Ne me quitte pas" and "Here's That Rainy Day" (1959), "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (1965), "One Less Bell to Answer" (1970), "Losing My Mind" (1971), "And I Am Telling You" (1982), "I Will Always Love You" (1974) and "You're Beautiful" (2004).

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with more Soul styling. Repost of mine

Like I said, I never knew about it.
It's hilarious to me.
It should just be "hey white people it's OK to listen to me even though I sound black."

Thats basically what it is. Its white people singing black based, music and using black vocal styles.The precursor to "Blue Eyed Soul" was known as "c00n Shouting" which is based in the BLues just like Soul/R&B

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

The term R&B came about because black people didn't want their music to be called "race music".





"white soul" is R&B


an Afram (GeorgeWoods) coined the term

"Two years down the road, in 1964, Woods coined the phrase “blue-eyed soul” referring to The Righteous Brothers. Six years later, the term got heavy use for the Osmond Brothers’ hit, “One Bad Apple,” when the group sounded very similar to the Jackson 5."

The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia





but she is....Adele is basically a torch singer, a sub genre of the blues-jazz,


Torch song




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with more Soul styling. Repost of mine


Thats basically what it is. Its white people singing black based, music and using black vocal styles.The precursor to "Blue Eyed Soul" was known as "c00n Shouting" which is based in the BLues just like Soul/R&B

The Osmonds are a bad example... At that time, no one considered them R and B, or soul for that matter. The general consensus in the black community back then was that they were culture thieves, akin to Elvis Presley

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Because black Americans are obsessed with british cacs

It's actually the other way around. White brits historically since the British Invasiian have always drawn their main influences from black america

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I listen to a lot of old school R&B (James Brown stays in rotation for me).
Adele has the B (blues), but her music is devoid of the R (rhythm).
When I think of R&B, this comes to my mind.

But then again, I think most of today's R&B is just pop slowed down and sung in falsetto





I don't know if Adele has ever had this sound.

James was on is way to Funk there which sounds different from early Soul.The earliest music to be deemed "R&B" was mainly shuffles, backbeats and swinging. Adele's songs have those same feels

blues shuffles



motown grooves and gospel hand claps straight from the black church



the blues-jazz swing feel

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

I don't understand it...

I'm not going to pretend like black people don't listen to Adele (judging from how many threads have been made about her)

But how is she rap/hip-hop/r&b?

I've even heard some black people try to say that Adele is R&B, which just lets me know that people don't understand what R&B is.

This shyt baffles me

She is but to discredit black persons influence in her music, they say pop. The same thing with Justin Timberlake. He makes R&B, Katy Perry's music has R&B genes, Taylor Swift "Shake It Off", need I say more? Pop just means popular.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The Osmonds are a bad example...

How?

Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is a term sometimes used for rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists.[1] The term was coined in the mid-1960s, to describe white artists who performed soul and R&B that was similar to the music of the Motown and Stax record labels. Though many rhythm and blues radio stations would only play music by black musicians, some began to play music by white acts considered to have "soul feeling", which came to be called "blue-eyed soul".[2][3]

At that time, no one considered them R and B, or soul for that matter.

they did or else they would have never been tagged as such

The general consensus in the black community back then was that they were culture thieves, akin to Elvis Presley

This may be true but it stop black people from calling the music people like Elvis did, exactly what it was, which was "black" music.



@ 5:47 by Little Rchard

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

they did or else they would have never been tagged as such

Who tagged them as such?