and what that is, is church folk sangin their ass off over beats now.

But when you listen to 'old' gospel, it wasn't just riffing for the sake of riffing, it was that certain notes, certain words would get accentuated. Nowadays, singers would stretch out EVERY note, and that could have only come from television.

When did this happen tho? Disco?

My co-worker actually blames Stevie, and that people started to mimic his singing instead of ol' church singers.