Y'all remember when male r&b singers made good music?

[m0rninggl0ry]

I was listening to Aaliyahs "Never Giving Up" and it dawned on me that the brother singing with her was only 13!!! For years, I thought it was a grown man, considering she was making music with RKelly but still like his voice was



When did the bar become so low

I mean we can as far back in the 80s, we had Freddie Jackson, Luther even Bobby Brown

In the 90s, young artists coming up like Usher and Tevin could sing and were actually great entertainers. Sure, CB did his thing but he's now singing autotune and the lyrics are beyond basicI'm pretty sure your 5 year old can make a better hit

It just sucks that I can't hear a record where a brother is singing about the sidechick




Or being the side dude




Or paying all the bills and getting no appreciation

 

[Elim Garak]

These threads always head in the same direction lol. You will be told it's out here you just aren't digging deep enough.

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

Nikkas boolshytting. Like the poster above said, some pretentious ass will say “you ain’t digging hard enough”. Where is the next Luther Vandross?

Masego

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

These threads always head in the same direction lol. You will be told it's out here you just aren't digging deep enough.

Im hoping it will go into people posting music from
Back in the day but sure they'll suggest it. The male singers don't have soul in their music

 

[Him]

T-Pain made it so anybody can sing

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

Nikkas boolshytting. Like the poster above said, so,e pretentious ass will say “you ain’t digging hard enough. Where is the next Luther Vandross?

Masego

They can get another pope but there's only one Luther

 

[Standing on business]

These threads always head in the same direction lol. You will be told it's out here you just aren't digging deep enough.

You don't even have to dig deep to find good music or songs

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

T-Pain made it so anybody can sing

Ugh. He was a poor mans Roget Troutman

 

[The God Poster]

You don't even have to dig deep to find good music or songs

Pretty much this

It’s more so people have a specific sound they are used to hearing & prob prefer.

The sound of R&B just isn’t their taste which is ok. But to say there isn’t any good R&B is foolish

Now If you wanna say the top promoted R&B singers aren’t putting out the best music we can debate

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

They still make good music on internet radio just not past 2008 . At this point, I am over trying to chase a waterfall that's been closed from the public permanently. We living in a world where R and B is basically dudes gloating about making the p*ssy squirt, instead of loving the woman for life.

Where women want the p*ssy busted open, instead of desiring a man to take the fear of a cold world away from her.

Even the sex tunes back in the day set off a four play escapade, than these eager fukks that's singing verbal STDs and having that same tired ass islander sound

There's no hope because them songs thats been posted will never be made again. No matter how deep we go into the Youtube rabbit hole provided by a incense using cac, or Spotify suggest some Bandcamp singer that restored the feeling temporary, but you are not going to buy the damn album...there will never be a time like 60s to mid 2000s R and B.

No matter how much Gen Z and some flabby ass singer going to sing otherwise, the fact remains that R and B is dead, and it officially was declared dead when Tony Brown died this year

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

Pretty much this

It’s more so people have a specific sound they are used to hearing & prob prefer.

The sound of R&B just isn’t their taste which is ok. But to say there isn’t any good R&B is foolish

Now If you wanna say the top promoted R&B singers aren’t putting out the best music we can debate

I'll say it, there is no good r&b
The beats sound the same
Singing is screeched of soft whispering

 

[m0rninggl0ry]

They still make good music on internet radio just not past 2008 . At this point, I am over trying to chase a waterfall that's been closed from the public permanently. We living in a world where R and B is basically dudes gloating about making the p*ssy squirt, instead of loving the woman for life.

I miss it so bad. When brothas would sign their heat out

 

[Standing on business]

as always folks crying about how they miss that passionate R&B yet raheem devaughn dropped these singles last year and album bricked

 

[Wild self]

Let's face it, we probably reached the point of no return when we promoted autotune over traditional homegrown church singing back in 2006.

Now, the art of naturally powerful black voices is a relic of the past.

Autotune and studio assisted tools is like riding a bike on training wheels: you riding, but you handicapped for life and stunts your (vocal) growth,

 

[315]

Maybe it’s time to move on. At some point Ragtime wasn’t the wave anymore

Personally I’m not interested in new traditional R&B. I want some brand new shyt