Does Bruno Mars have the best scam in music right now?

[Zero]

So yall hated Bruno when he made vanilla pop music, because it was bland

Now you hate him because he is making blacker pop music...

Honestly, dude is talented and the songs sound good, but don't think we aint caught on to the hustle.

Yall invite everybody to the damn "cookout" then get mad when you see your uncle's rib recipe on Food Network

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Who listens to the radio? My 80 year old grandfather streams music and like I told dude above, all streaming service have done great with recommending new artists. It's almost like yall are thinking about the past and trying to apply it to now, but music is a totally different world than it was 10-20 years ago.

So streaming services & radio operate totally different according to you huh Free of the major label song & dance?...You say "new" but do they operate independent of the same machine? For you to think these streaming services aren't label patsies any less than terrestrial radio then...I dunno

 

[Doobie Doo]

The people in charge of what?

The major labels, stop it breh

 

[ball15life]

the only thing he sharks is black culture. yall dont find that odd?

Not true fam...

People seem to forget he "sharked" 70/80s acts like elton john and the police on his 2nd album, which went 4x platinum. He could have stayed in that lane for the rest of his career and feasted.

He just loves old music. I really don't see the problem with that.

 

[Dad]

OP spoke no lies

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

They not has good as bruno mars and can't make that type of music, thats just facts

Chris Brown has no classics, he ain't even R. Kelly status after all this time

when they play throw back chris brown its the kiss kiss song with T Pain, the nikka is trash

Trey songs can't even sing, he a rapper, and august alsina is the poor man's version of him

it s a wrap

R Kelly is the greatest mainstream artist of the past 25 years. You seem to be coming off a bit disparaging regarding the man

 

[Zero]

Matter fact, didn't yall do this same song and dance with Macklemore?

"At least he payin homage to the legends breh....Melle Mel!!!! "


Ya'll never learn

 

[50CentStan]

I haven't paid attention to the new stuff he's been doing. But I do remember that first album he dropped thecoli heavily co signed it. Now he went mainstream pop after the Superbowl and the coli has turned on him...makes sense

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Bruno was not like this when he first came out. Compare his music when he first came out to now. Culture vulture. The only reason people give him a pass is because he gives credit to black music and is surrounded by black people.

I defended him for a while but its starting to get apparent.

He was making poppy music pre-Uptown Funk but if you look up clips of his concerts back then, he was doing James Brown impressions and singing R&B medleys of Pony, My Boo, and Ignition together. That leads me to think that Atlantic, the same people who want Lupe and BoB to do poppy tracks made him do the same.

 

[Master Teacher]

R Kelly is the greatest mainstream artist of the past 25 years. You seem to be coming off a bit disparaging regarding the man

No he is not

R. Kelly is a talented artist he's not the greatest anything and he's never been

R. Kelly hasn't been shyt in over a decade for one

when I said CB isn't R. Kelly status

He has no classic songs under his belts, he has no classic albums, he don't write or produce on that level,

he can sing better than r. kelly, because he can't make songs like r. kelly

He ain't as big as R. Kelly was, nobody took over where R. Kelly left off, nobody ever took his spot, he got old and faded away
thats my point

who's the new big star, who's that guy, that person doesn't exist

also R, Kelly is the reason why CB, Trey songs are the way they are
he created that lane
he killed R&B by pushing it in that direction, it is what it is, you can't big up R. Kelly, and then shyt on CB, Songs, and these other rap singers, because R. Kelly stopped doing R&B and did the rap singing thing a long time ago lmao

 

[Will Ross]

We don’t see big name black artist no more because over the last 10 years if you won’t Beyoncé you won’t shyt. Super fandom got one artist killed a lot of black future pop stars. Also we are so quick to tear down are stars hell look at what happen to usher

 

[BlackBall]

Pop music is karaoke for good looking and connected people.

And ho’s which they all are anyway

 

[I Really Mean It]

Hip hop never sampled beats from the past?

Trash thread trash poster bush thread

Hip-hop sampled music from other genres, flipped and chopped them before combining the result with drums, and created an entirely new genre of music.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

The main arguments in the 90s was that hip hop was vulturing from the old school, not paying dues, and getting rich while original artists died impoverished. How is this any different from what you accuse Bruno Mars of?

The criticism then was that hip hop wasn't "real music" and they weren't "real musicians" cuz they were essentially remixing/sampling old records. The point was valid in the sense that they weren't on level of guys who played instruments and such, but the hip songs were clearly sonically different than the songs they sampled, even if just a loop (i.e. Ma$e's "Feel So Good" is a very different song from Kool & the Gang's "Hollywood Swinging"....a fan of Kool & the Gang's song is not necessarily going to like Ma$e's song even if they had heard Ma$e's song first)


The points about the original artists dying impoverished (or being impoverished whilst watching the hip hop acts make millions sampling their work) were misplaced anger. They shoulda been mad the record labels that jerked them, not the new acts who managed to get paid. Hip hop acts weren't allowed to use those samples for free, the money was just going to the labels instead of the original artists

 

[ColiBomaye]

He acknowledges that he was inspired by black music he heard growing up, and as far as I know hasn't said anything slick about black people or black culture.


He's not white and can't pass for white so he doesn't benefit from being more "appealing" to white audiences strictly off skin color.

Taking elements from decades-old music and reworking them into successful songs of your own today is a pretty difficult "scam" to pull off.
If he just wanted to easily hustle money without much effort/talent, why not go the mumble rap route like a lot of these hot rappers?

Is it that hard to enjoy catchy music with a throwback vibe? Like the poster on the first page said, ya'll really do hate everything.