R&B is still alive brehs

[Canada Goose]

Some of favorite "new school" R&B that dropped in recent years

 

[Amo Husserl]

Well the light airy sound took over so thats all you see even on some of the underground stuff. I feel like the sounds of crenshaw/lermert guys have been putting out great RB for a while. All the label heads are looking for a the next Jhene/Tyla until it gets played out.

My strong opinion is R&B never needed major labels but major labels needed R&B.
R&B is like jazz and needs to be honed in venues and after hours spots in the community.
Those don't exist like they used to so when the label... mountain climbers who play electric guitars... start to say what's hot in a genre they had no part in creating the music dies. You gotta figure outta all the groups, singers, session musicians and sidemen of R&Bs greatest eras, how many of them remember the Chitlin' Circuit and the clubs, the churches and the experiences that molded the songs we know and love handed down to us by our parents from their parents....



We all tried a little tenderness with a chick with a shaggy dress back in the day.

 

[Hathaway]

None of these I would classify as "r&b". Decent songs though. Real smooth and low key. These are more hiphop/pop masquerading as r&b. They all lack the one crucial element that makes R&B what it is and that's soul

 

[Amo Husserl]

This used to be my shyt as a shorty.

 

[Low End Derrick]

Spoiler: CLICK IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO SOME REAL HAIRY VAGINA MUSIC

 

[scotch]

Spoiler: CLICK IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO SOME REAL HAIRY VAGINA MUSIC

That Tyrese and October London

 

[Eza]

Shouts to OP - Senseless (Mnelia) was one of my most listened to songs in 2022, still in rotation.

Can't wait for that new Rimon to drop as well - been hooked on her since "Realize."

Salutes for being hip!

 

[Checkgamematch]

This is not R&B this is a style of the pop music that imitates R&B.
Where is the rhythm? I hear a beat like rhythm and blues that may as well be a click track, I don't hear or feel rhythm.
Where is the blues? I hear some chords, but I don't hear the blues in those chords.

What I hear and feel is some chord packs, unquantized beats 'cause Dilla did it, a dash of music theory and a semester of voice classes.
This is not R&B, it's pop music imitating rhythm and blues by young adults who wanna catch a vibe and water down a genre of music they don't have the skill to actually pull off. Shyt super lame, lifeless and cliche. Issa textbook reason why real R&B dying. R&B still alive, but it's in bad shape.
This is R&B for people doom scrolling on Tumblr.

Exactly modern R&B is trash. People need to accept it.

 

[Geode]

It never fails. I come with an open mind and get disappointed. Those people are carrying a tune, and I use that term loosely because most are talking semi-melodically, over a tune.

The old R&B is never coming back mainstream.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Gtfoh

This the most typical Gen Z, zombie moan, non singing ass, Rihanna Godmother, soul less, elevator, brunch music.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

All that shyt sounds like trash. Same boring computer made beats with recycled drums. Same over-processed vocals. Wack or no real instrumentation. What happened to being unique and having your own sound?

 

[Max Headroom]

Some newer R&B songs that's been on repeat for me all year

 

[The Fade]

People need to admit the influx of trap ruined the genre

The Goo goo ga ga baby singing made it worse I literally just only listen to soul, disco, funk and house precursors because of that. And new Jack swing

 

[Blessings]

subs

 

[Mike809]