R&B is still alive brehs

[TEH]

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

They have two Grammy categories

- R&B
- Traditional R&B

For a reason …

New R&B doesn’t sound like traditional R&B

 

[Taadow]

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.

Yeah.

I listened to three different songs at random - no rhythm at all.

I cut two of them off around a minute; one because that when she started cussing in the hook, and the other
becpause I could see where it was going and it was predictable.

The third song Ol’ Gurl started cussing 3 bars in.

We can do better than this