2662697, you're missing my point
Posted by imcvspl, Wed Feb-15-12 05:37 PM
>it's a pretty big umbrella that covers a lot of sounds and
>styles. some of the best R&B songs ever get called pop simply
>because they had mass appeal.
But if we are talking about the problems facing R&B let's focus on the R&B part, not the crossover part. I'll say it again the crossover part is what has led to this road. You want to complain about what's happened to R&B - it went pop. Can there be great songs in that lane, absolutely. Are those songs at the core of what R&B is though - no.
The problem with the pop thing is that it changes like the whether so if R&B is constantly chasing it, it's not going to go back to the bread and butter which is what you seem to want from the OG post.
The song you used is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. You didn't talk about the songwriting or the production. You talked about the video, 3K and having fun... shit gotta jet... lemme finish first.
>>Good pop in 2012 in oontz. So if I say R&B singer X
>>has a great oontz song, is that a good thing for R&B, even
>if
>>you don't like oontz?
>
>if it's a good or great song then yeah... but see I'm not as
>opposed to the "oontz" sound as some... most of the ones I
>heard (by R&B artists) just aren't very well written songs.
>
>> See this is the logical problem I have
>>with raising this song in the context of this discussion, my
>>opinion of the song aside.
>
>No it's all about your opinion... you came though screaming
>about how the song SUCKS ASS. Not that you just didn't care
>for it or it wasn't your thing... but you ripped the shit out
>of the song itself. I'm all for people having their own
>opinions but honestly if that's an example of a god awful song
>to you then I flat out have to question your ear for this kind
>of music.
>
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