Why is R&B dead in 2014?

[Zero]

Rnb is about love. This generation is about poppin pill getting drunk and fukking.

Imagine what would happen to gospel music if everybody went athiest

 

[Serious]

Real talk breh.

R&B is too loaded estrogen. Plus the artists are ass trash.

You notice the only r&b artist with a broad fanbase is Beyonces overrated ass.

Fekket music.

well technically this is classified as r&b.



Idk how I feel about this

 

[Zero]

1. No one pays for whole albums anymore
2. Producers need to make money
3. Combining rap and R&B into an indistinct miasma of party songs that promote bullshyttery is the only thing that people will spend money on.

Solution: Ignore the top 20 songs on iTunes, stop buying individual singles from shytty artists, and start buying whole albums from good artists.

Exactly.

You can apply this to rap as well

 

[Serious]

Exactly.

You can apply this to rap as well

Yep there's a reason why macklemore sells, and it isn't because of his lyrics...

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

well technically this is classified as r&b.



Idk how I feel about this

I don't either. He has a nice voice but the song is just decent nothing to write home about.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Yep there's a reason why macklemore sells, and it isn't because of his lyrics...

So pretty much what sells is what white and teen consumers like..
That's gonna phase out good talent, if you think it's hard to find good music now just wait a couple more years.

 

[Serious]

So pretty much what sells is what white and teen consumers like..
That's gonna phase out good talent, if you think it's hard to find good music now just wait a couple more years.

honestly I dont even really to music any more like I used too.

EVen when I drive i'd have the radio on mute or tune into NPR.

 

[Danie84]

Cuz these fukkboys can't sing a lick, and their tunes is nothing but demonic filth

 

[Soundwave]

Cause the rappers wanna sing and all the singers wanna rap ! Simple as that !

It's still weird to me that August Alsina was in the latest XXL Freshman class ... I was thinking "isn't he a singer?"

The lines have become too blurred like you said

 

[Colin X]

shut that shyt up..

That album wasn't some flames breh?

 

[Im Kemet Rocky & I like penis]

well technically this is classified as r&b.



Idk how I feel about this

that shyt funk..

 

[patscorpio]

because these cats have no type of soul or proper coaching

 

[KobeTho]

The genre has quietly died out over the past few years

Its still being carried by Usher/Neyo/etc but there's no new talent

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

You have to go way back...New Jack Swing contributed to the death of R&B.
The 90's was the beginning of the downfall...so many one hit wonders.

 

[theflyest]

an accumulation of reasons

• not getting talent from the churches
• lack of groups, a true solo artist should be meant for elites. Anybody just shouldn't be a solo artist
• trying to sale an artist based on looks rather than talent
• the standards are down.
  
• etc