"Then neosoul came about hoping to right the wrongs and restore depth to Black pop music but I feel that they too missed the boat by subscribing to the idea that if you're Black and you are playing an instrument, then whatever material you are performing is automatically "deep."

Add to that the creeping epidemic of rapper-envy among singers and Beyonce-inspired "tinging" (c) fireOK (which was itself inspired in some ways by Timbaland's mid-90s R&B beats) you have R&B songwriting dying a slow, undignified death over the past 20 years."

Yep.