2662600, "and they don't have any joy in their voices" (c) my mom. Posted by Joe Corn Mo, Wed Feb-15-12 02:44 PM
now again... mainstream black music as i used to know it is dead... but for the purposes of this post, i might as well go in.
i know that artists were ALWAYS about making money. and i realize that everybody did not used to release stevie wonder/ marvin gaye level material. and i realize that r&b has always been raunchy.
but i swear, even mediocre old music seems to have people singing in a way that made it sound like they were happy to be singing.
even a sad song showed some kind of joy... even if there was pain in their voice.
like, lil' MJ had pain in his voice, but there was a JOY in it, too.
even janet, who can't really sing... had JOY in her voice. along w/ the pain.
i don't hear any joy in beyonce's voice. not anymore, at least.
same goes for chris brown.
same goes for damn near every other new r&b singer.
even when the ohio players were singing a dumbass song like "fire," i could hear the joy in their voice.
from omorion? not so much.
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