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

 

[MasterThought]

First song I clicked she dropping F bombs , smh

 

[Bonefan32]

 

[TheNig]

fukkin with this Make Money joint. But it's not really RnB.

 

[Voice of Reason]

cosplayers stealing FBA culture


tethers

 

[Higher Tech]

 

[Higher Tech]

 

[HabitualChiller]

Beat RnB song I've heard in a while. Definitely has soul, so I don't want to hear shít from you hoe ass níggas

 

[Kasgoinjail]

 

[Wiseborn]

Beat RnB song I've heard in a while. Definitely has soul, so I don't want to hear shít from you hoe ass níggas

I guess the era of church ass sangin’. is over.

Accent sounds tetherish.

Song is Ok though

 

[HabitualChiller]

I guess the era of church ass sangin’. is over.

Accent sounds tetherish.

Song is Ok though

Negged

 

[shutterguy]

That Tyrese and October London

Them 2 been holding it down lately, especially October.

 

[Remote]

SWV came on my spotify yesterday.

Whatever they got in 2024 just isn't the same.

 

[Worthless Loser]

That Xavier Omar song is ok. The rest are trash.

I don't even think the artists themselves know what real R&B is. They just trying to ride the current musical trap pop wave.