90s slow jams by someone called phuc boi spotify: 90's baby makers and one called i love my 90s hip hop that is excellent. basically search for 80s and 90s r&b and theres sooo many!! also the verzuz babyface vs teddy riley is PERFECTION.
I feel like the rise of EDM killed R&B for a long time. I mean you had Usher going EDM pop, which in the long-run alienated a lot of his fans. I feel like R&B is coming back with the Weeknd, SZA. I just hate how black artists are relegated to R&B even if they make pop. Lizzo and Rihanna come to mind. I file them in pop tbh, esp Rihanna.
I feel like the rise of EDM killed R&B for a long time
I would say it was Pop more broadly. I mean, "Baby One More Time" replacing Brandy's "Have You Ever" at #1 on Billboard feels like an omen for what would become of the mainstream music landscape. R&B starts to disappear from the top of the charts around this time. Though it's funny that EDM was briefly the place these artists would go when they needed mainstream hits. Usher and Ne-Yo both sprinkled chart-baiting EDM songs onto their albums to get radio play and attention outside of the usual R&B charts. It makes a weird sense when you remember how much of EDM is indebted to disco and house, two deeply black dance genres.
I would also say it's coming back as wlel, though stealthily in the form of white pop singers affecting R&B-style vocals or sonic elements into otherwise conventional pop songs.
IDK the early 2000s was heavy on R&B influences but they were co-opted by white people and NBPOC like JLO. Britney's whole self-titled album was heavily influenced by those sounds and even In The Zone. And Christina's blackfishing too. The whitewashing of electronic music is irritating. I went to a discussion/performance from two black DJs from detroit and they delve into how people like Calvin Harris and Diplo are the faces of EDM and it's like two straight white dudes taking over. blegh.
have yall seen those vids where they divide the screen in two and one side represents that a song is a bop and the other side means they think it's a flop? i came across a few and had to stop bc I was getting my feelings hurt lol when they would label what i consider iconic songs as basic.
lolol yes!!!! when they sit there and say they dont know the song. these kids have soooo much music at their fingertips, past me is so jealous of how easy it is to discover everything.
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spotify: 90's baby makers and one called i love my 90s hip hop that is excellent.
basically search for 80s and 90s r&b and theres sooo many!!
also the verzuz babyface vs teddy riley is PERFECTION.
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I feel like the rise of EDM killed R&B for a long time. I mean you had Usher going EDM pop, which in the long-run alienated a lot of his fans. I feel like R&B is coming back with the Weeknd, SZA. I just hate how black artists are relegated to R&B even if they make pop. Lizzo and Rihanna come to mind. I file them in pop tbh, esp Rihanna.
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I would say it was Pop more broadly. I mean, "Baby One More Time" replacing Brandy's "Have You Ever" at #1 on Billboard feels like an omen for what would become of the mainstream music landscape. R&B starts to disappear from the top of the charts around this time. Though it's funny that EDM was briefly the place these artists would go when they needed mainstream hits. Usher and Ne-Yo both sprinkled chart-baiting EDM songs onto their albums to get radio play and attention outside of the usual R&B charts. It makes a weird sense when you remember how much of EDM is indebted to disco and house, two deeply black dance genres.
I would also say it's coming back as wlel, though stealthily in the form of white pop singers affecting R&B-style vocals or sonic elements into otherwise conventional pop songs.
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Do yall love JC's thug appeal? messy af but I wanted sooo badly for his solo career to take off :/
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Same.
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i came across a few and had to stop bc I was getting my feelings hurt lol when they would label what i consider iconic songs as basic.
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