62. "RE: Uh...Love Jones is not a classic to all blacks AND..." In response to In response to 57
>...Bitter is NOT an R&B album.
I never said it was R&B. R&B and soul are different.
>It's an acoustic pop/rock one.
Right, we don't agree here.
>She even said that the goal of that album was to get her out >of the R&B/Soul box. I would vote either of her first two >albums as two of the best soul albums of the last decades.
Not sure that artists always reach their goals, though. She may have said that, doesn't mean that listeners/audience don't classify it as soul.
>Also, the LJ soundtrack is mainly beloved by middle class >blacks who are now in their mid 30s to mid 40s. That does not >equate "black folks as a whole".
I doubt you have any empirical evidence of this and I was being snarky, so we can let this ride. But...LOL at "beloved by middle class blacks."