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Topic subject"and they don't have any joy in their voices" (c) my mom.
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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.