I'm unapologetic in my opinion that music today is more vibrant and fun than it was 10-15 years ago... but I have to say I'm very disappointed that this is not transferring over to the stage. Theatrics and spectacle alone does not make one sound or perform like a star... unfortunately an alarming number of those old enough to know better seem to have forgotten this. Making things even more worrisome is we have a new generation coming that has never known what real "sugar" tastes like. I'm serious when I say this worries me ... it's not just hyperbole.

It may be coincidental that the Sweet & Low star is gaining a stranglehold in a period directly after the passing of the greatest Pop Star of the last 40 years... but I think there's a connection. Of course the move towards counterfeit superstars goes back before MJ's passing... the minute MJ left the stage and became a full time TMZ item the opening was there. The music industry had already been taking short cuts for close to two decades but now they were in a pickle... failing to develop and nurture talent at the expense of short term profit meant the bench was thin and in some cases completely empty. The so-call "Neo-Soul" movement boasted of a return to musicianship and "real" songs but it didn't have any of the pizazz that could fill the void left by the greats of yesterday. Of the two that did one was a dude basically doing arena karaoke and the other was a woman with a lack of radio friendly hits. And Hip-Hop... We all know Hip Hop had the personalities but fell pitifully short as a genre that could produce quality live acts.

It was clear the slack would have to be taken up by those closest to MJ's pop tree... The Boy Band off-shoots, Usher, sister Janet and her clones. Thing is all these acts could mimic the moves & theatrics of MJ but to a varying degree all fell short of the substance that sustained Michael all those years.... talent and the drive to create.

Now here we sit about 10 years later with a new crop of "stars"... the difference is these performers have also been inspired by the failed replacements of the post MJ era. That "middle" generation did a respectable job at times but it was still a long way from what any of us over 40 became accustom to when we were young. My worry is the further we move away from the age of the stage, the more bloated and fake it's going to get. We have people today going into a frenzy anytime they see outrageous outfits, lifts, pyrotechnics, and a gang of people on stage... proclaiming it the "best shit ever" and throwing out GOAT status based solely on the spectacle. Old heads you can't be afraid to step up and call this bullshit for what it is. Sitting out there and co-signing shit you should know better of just to avoid grumpy old man jokes isn't helping anyone. Step up and share the knowledge you have... if you have a niece, nephew or younger brother or sister show them what performances used to be about. Get out those old video tapes or forward on some links... and if Prince comes to your town, go out there and get them a ticket so they can witness with their own eyes what a real live show looks and SOUNDS like. It might be too late to turn this back but that doesn't mean you are supposed to give up and just accept a substitute as the genuine article. It's up to us to teach the children that just because it's sweet doesn't mean it's sugar.


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especially the part about clones following clones. it's like dubbing from cassette to cassette. yeah, you'll still get the gist of it, but the quality will deteriorate.

and with that "cassette tape" analogy (airquotes!), i have effectively shown my age.

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>especially the part about clones following clones. it's like
>dubbing from cassette to cassette. yeah, you'll still get the
>gist of it, but the quality will deteriorate.
>
>and with that "cassette tape" analogy (airquotes!), i have
>effectively shown my age.
>
>get off my lawn.

It's a good analogy though

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>and with that "cassette tape" analogy (airquotes!), i have
>effectively shown my age.
>
>get off my lawn.

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I think of what other generations (the ones preceding me) thought of the guys I consider musical heroes

at least they couldn't front on someone like MJ too much
you could see his forebears in his moves, without really copying what they did

I'll give a lot of the latter-day generation credit though
when I look up some random song I have on MP3/CD anyway on Youtube, it's usually some 18, 19, 20something up there with the geezers on some "WTF?! Why don't they make music like this anymore"

I think that some get it. Rather... the thrill of what it meant to be a star in the music business. What it meant to "count" (to use a maxxx term).

I'd love to see what happens in the future with the FULLY Internet generation. This and the David Bammer post re: the lost music of the 2000s, has me thinking about that a lot more than usual.

>I'll give a lot of the latter-day generation credit though
>when I look up some random song I have on MP3/CD anyway on
>Youtube, it's usually some 18, 19, 20something up there with
>the geezers on some "WTF?! Why don't they make music like this
>anymore"

I've talked about that very thing on this board many times. But listening to an MP3 and seeing that same material performed on stage are two very different things. I do think this generation coming up has a pretty good ear... they just don't have the true superstars to show them how to really rock a stage.


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comes with constantly performing and honing your craft which all boils down to time and nurture..two of those things are lacking in today's musical world. The whole thing is microwaved ppl wanna be superstars immediately without enduring the trials it takes to truly craft someone worthy of global attention.

that's just my view tho.

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they seem more interested in icing the torch out in Swarovski crystals and shit.

this made me LOL:

>Sitting out there and co-signing shit you
>should know better of just to avoid grumpy old man jokes isn't
>helping anyone.

i ain't cosign shit because of that, but i have left threads without a reply to avoid being called grumpy and old.

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I need someone that disagrees with this post to break down why this is being called a great performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKaRRbqS-SA


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There was a thread a few weeks ago about Kanye's Coachella performance where many were using words like "great" & "unbelievable". I really didn't want to be one of one those dudes that drops into a post just to piss on it... But I'd love to have some of those same people come in here and break down exactly what it is that makes this so exceptional.

Asking me to tell you why it's not would be as simple as going out and grabbing 2 or 3 youtube links.


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>Asking me to tell you why it's not would be as simple as going
>out and grabbing 2 or 3 youtube links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kld4z6ZgyHc

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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kld4z6ZgyHc

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You are going to kill this post before I get my full run out of it........

oh well fuck it lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLkd8kUxDY0


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>Asking me to tell you why it's not would be as simple as going
>out and grabbing 2 or 3 youtube links.

So basically you're gonna grab maybe a video of James Brown or P****e or New Edition and just post it up and imply because Kanye not JB, P or NE, that's why his performance is not good?

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Because seeing a true stage star perform next to Kayne makes him look like Tom Cruise in Risky Business.

I would rather have someone that has a high opinion of what Kanye is doing here tell me what it is that makes it good without providing them with a check list to preemptively cop pleas too.

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I saw Kanye live on the Touch The Sky Tour. Not quite as much theatricality as Glow In The Dark or anything since really, but there were a couple sets (hospital bed for Roses, etc.) and some really cool things going on with the lights. BUT there was also a live drummer, live piano, a 4 piece string section in addition to A-Trak DJing to fill in any gaps. There were some awesome interpolations (strings playing the horn lines from Touch The Sky for instance). That added instrumentation is EVERYTHING to me and it's what differentiates that show from what I saw back in '06 (?)

Here's an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmtKFslDtAU

vs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-jr8ft7br8
(note: I was looking for the power performance, but this is close. I will also note that I think the MPC performance at the beginning was pretty damn cool, but it ain't enough (c) Unforgivable)

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1) this nigga is rapping like Rick Ross now?

2) i'm not about to watch all that.

3) he's jumping around on stage, which is seen as energetic. which, by a lot of people's standards these days, is a good performance.

seeing as though i didn't watch the whole thing, i can't fairly say that his performance is "bad". however, fuck fairness. that shit does nothing for me.

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Or that you've never heard the song, period?

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I mean, I didn't cop or DL the album and I avoided most of the discussion about it and somehow I still know the words to "All the Lights" and several other songs.

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>I mean, I didn't cop or DL the album and I avoided most of
>the discussion about it and somehow I still know the words to
>"All the Lights" and several other songs.

I did "cop" that album
and avoided most of the discussion about it...

listened to it once all the way through
went back to listening to Michael Jackson.

I can't remember what many of those songs sound like except for a skeleton.

>I can't remember what many of those songs sound like except
>for a skeleton.

but if I hear them playing, I find myself singing along to them. It's the weirdest thing.

Ye won.

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somehow, i haven't quite gotten around to listening to it.

*yet another ironic Ye shrug*

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"he's jumping around on stage, which is seen as energetic. which, by a lot of people's standards these days, is a good performance"


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I mean the difference between this and a krs performance is miles but it's hard to articulate why. i think one thing would be krs seems more effortless. even when he's sweating. like he's tiring the crowd out. kanye has the 'big hit' thing going for him which means just playing the track is enough for it to be a good performance. and it's not like krs didn't have big hit factors two, but you listen on hardcore and he did stuff on edutainment that hadn't been released yet and had folk hanging on his every word.... effortlessly.
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>kanye has the 'big hit' thing
>going for him which means just playing the track is enough for
>it to be a good performance.

i like/love a lot of his material, but i can't imagine PAYING going to see that negro stand in place and bob his head for a couple hours. he DEFINITELY ain't animated like say a Busta Rhymes. he nailed THAT shit. lol.

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I'm asking honestly. i saw that coachella performance online and it made me less of a fan. he was genuinely actually awful for portions of that show. off tune...off time...i assumed everyone else recognized that.

i saw glow in the dark and really enjoyed that show. maybe you had to be there but i actually thought he really needed some guests to take the pressure off trying to carry a show. that stage (staging?) was way too big for his talent and i like his music.

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2. there's a lot of lights.

3. the song is about lots of lights.

4. or at least the chorus is.

5. so that makes it 'moving'.

6. especially if you were there.

7. and drunk.

8. and shrooming.

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>I'm unapologetic in my opinion that music today is more
>vibrant and fun than it was 10-15 years ago...

the 00's is a bad metric. but i know why you started with that qualifier.

>but I have to
>say I'm very disappointed that this is not transferring over
>to the stage.

Here I think you should say to live performance not just stage. Because what is brought to the stage I think is indicative of the type/quality of vibrance and fun being made today.

>Theatrics and spectacle alone does not make one
>sound or perform like a star...

Actually I disagree. It does. What it doesn't do is make you a star quality musical performer. When you get into your examples, the natural talent and ability is obviously there, but its the theatrics that made them stars. Mixing the theatrics with true musical ability is what makes a true music star.

> unfortunately an alarming
>number of those old enough to know better seem to have
>forgotten this.

They've been sold not to remember (that's not a typo). To quote Henry Rollins:

"It is true that there are a lot more good-looking people than those who are musically gifted. The music industry jumped onto this fact and started signing people whom the camera loved, and let already overworked studio engineers handle the unglamorous chores of pitch-correcting, sampling and bringing in pro hitters to prop up these gorgeous cash calves."

>Making things even more worrisome is we have a
>new generation coming that has never known what real "sugar"
>tastes like. I'm serious when I say this worries me ... it's
>not just hyperbole.

Now this is real, and unfortunately what happens when we allow an industry to be the champion of culture. When entertainment is more important than art. And yes I brought it there because that's what this is really about. You want art in your entertainment. But the industry unequivocally decided they could make more money foregoing the art all together and raise a generation of 'talent' and audience that only looks for the entertainment value. Then they wonder why the attention span is so short, shelf life is so short, and their business model is beginning to wear at the seems. I mean this goes back to the 90's when they beat us over the head with star power and how important it was to rush out and pay them for producing the stars. We're just at the tail end of that effect today.

>It may be coincidental that the Sweet & Low star is gaining a
>stranglehold in a period directly after the passing of the
>greatest Pop Star of the last 40 years...

It was happening before that.

>but I think there's
>a connection. Of course the move towards counterfeit
>superstars goes back before MJ's passing... the minute MJ left
>the stage and became a full time TMZ item the opening was
>there. The music industry had already been taking short cuts
>for close to two decades but now they were in a pickle...
>failing to develop and nurture talent at the expense of short
>term profit meant the bench was thin and in some cases
>completely empty.

I agree with this for the most part.

>The so-call "Neo-Soul" movement boasted of a
>return to musicianship and "real" songs but it didn't have any
>of the pizazz that could fill the void left by the greats of
>yesterday. Of the two that did one was a dude basically doing
>arena karaoke and the other was a woman with a lack of radio
>friendly hits. And Hip-Hop... We all know Hip Hop had the
>personalities but fell pitifully short as a genre that could
>produce quality live acts.

Cold blooded. But true more or less.

>It was clear the slack would have to be taken up by those
>closest to MJ's pop tree... The Boy Band off-shoots, Usher,
>sister Janet and her clones. Thing is all these acts could
>mimic the moves & theatrics of MJ but to a varying degree all
>fell short of the substance that sustained Michael all those
>years.... talent and the drive to create.

Yeah that's what I was referring to above.

>Now here we sit about 10 years later with a new crop of
>"stars"... the difference is these performers have also been
>inspired by the failed replacements of the post MJ era.

DING!!

>That
>"middle" generation did a respectable job at times but it was
>still a long way from what any of us over 40 became accustom
>to when we were young. My worry is the further we move away
>from the age of the stage, the more bloated and fake it's
>going to get. We have people today going into a frenzy anytime
>they see outrageous outfits, lifts, pyrotechnics, and a gang
>of people on stage... proclaiming it the "best shit ever" and
>throwing out GOAT status based solely on the spectacle. Old
>heads you can't be afraid to step up and call this bullshit
>for what it is. Sitting out there and co-signing shit you
>should know better of just to avoid grumpy old man jokes isn't
>helping anyone. Step up and share the knowledge you have...

Okay here's where we differ though. I think the stage is important but your expectations have to change. It's like On the real you give me a choice between seeing MJ in his prime or Trane late in his career and I'd go with Trane. These are of course apples and oranges musically, but I use it to illustrate a point. It's gotta go apples and oranges with it. Not just do what neo soul did and try to repackage. And I think in terms of the music there are things happening in that diretion. But it doesn't translate to the stage quite yet. Not as star power entertainment. But if it can refine itself and its performance better I think we'll see things ten years from now we could have never imagined.

The most important thing in making that happen IMO though is devaluing the industries role in it all. Let that shit fall. Let the talent marinate. What comes from that... you'll be surprised.
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while obviously I'm not disputing the incredible ability to rock a stage he displayed dating all the way back to childhood, I also can't think of any one individual who did more to further advance the concept of the 'Bigger=Better' spectacle, choreography over musical chops, premeditation over inspiration, and prerecorded vocals being acceptable as long as it looked good.

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Speaking of which, what happened to that guy? He dropped off the face of the OKP earth again?

Here's my take, and I was thinking about it as soon as I opened this post, even before I read down this far. MJ is to modern empty pop stars as "Jaws" is to the modern empty action summer movie. That is to say, he was an example of how to do it right and create something hugely entertaining that still had substance and depth - but almost everybody coming after him learned all the wrong lessons. People trying to make a summer blockbuster these days want to have the big spectacle that was pioneered by "Jaws," but they don't pay attention to the deep and interesting characterization and character dynamics, or the rock-solid, tight-as-a-drum story, or the way Chief Brody was firmly center stage with the effects just propping him up, rather than the other way around. They use something great as a model for making something bad. Weird how that happens. And I guess, as with Spielberg and "Jaws," I won't blame MJ for the calorie-free pop stars of today, even as they copy his moves.

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but I don't find MJ's live performances very 'substance' heavy. The themes were mostly universal cliches.

Although obviously much less musically talented....I find Madonna's big tour productions (like as seen in 'truth or dare') alot more interesting from a conceptual perspective.

That being said...big theatrical productions have never been my thing....but I think Madonna was better than MJ in developing an interesting and provocative narrative. If only that she made a statement that I find alot more interesting than MJ's Jesus Christ posing.

fuck you.

When you are an exceptional talent you can get way with things your followers can't. They can exhibit just one element of their talent but it's enough to captivate the crowd.

Here's an example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29BzMev58k

In theory there's nothing special about a man standing alone in a spotlight performing ... that is unless the man is so unbelievably talented he can hold the crowd with just his body movements.

Or he can do this http://youtu.be/aXK5xOJaYHI

dress it all and bring in all the bells and whistles, pipe in vocals and music, fill the stage with dancers... but guess what... all eyes are still on the man and his talent because he's spent a lifetime building himself into an icon.

MJ just didn't come out and start hopping around to pre-recorded music and get to be called a star. So basically I'm telling you what you just posted is utter and complete bullshit.

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>When you are an exceptional talent you can get way with
>things your followers can't. They can exhibit just one element
>of their talent but it's enough to captivate the crowd.
>
>Here's an example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29BzMev58k
>
>In theory there's nothing special about a man standing alone
>in a spotlight performing ... that is unless the man is so
>unbelievably talented he can hold the crowd with just his body
>movements.
>
>Or he can do this http://youtu.be/aXK5xOJaYHI
>
>dress it all and bring in all the bells and whistles, pipe in
>vocals and music, fill the stage with dancers... but guess
>what... all eyes are still on the man and his talent because
>he's spent a lifetime building himself into an icon.
>
>MJ just didn't come out and start hopping around to
>pre-recorded music and get to be called a star. So basically
>I'm telling you what you just posted is utter and complete
>bullshit.
>
I understand people can't duplicate what Michael did, however nothing you said there contradicts anything I said.

When the next generation comes around, they're going to try to replicate the things that they can actually copy and/or commission (read: the bells, whistles, explosions, dance troupes, lipsyncing with a tight dance routine) rather than the stuff they can't (like the emotionally resonant singing-while-mime-motioning of 'Human Nature' on the Bad Tour).

A lot of what has become the 'superstar' show (in the examples of his sister, to Bobby, down to Britney/Usher/Timberlake/etc) has trickled down from his template.

If you can step back from emotion (because as I said it's really not me in anyway disputing Michael's stage presence or prowess) it's pretty easy to see there's some truth to that statement.

You're lamenting the death of true 'live' performance while not acknowledging that the biggest star in the past 30 years of music (whose most iconic live performance was actually lipsynced) might have birthed some of that.

Did he help birth it? Of course.... that was pretty much one of the main points I made in my original post. But these acts today take the theatrics but really don't understanding why MJ did what he did. The whole point of Michael making everything bigger and bigger was the show nothing could outshine his star power. Unless you have the talent to outshine or at least go along with the spectacle you are only playing the role of superstar not actually delivering on it.


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can be 'blamed' for Silverchair or even Nickelback to some degree a/k/a an unforseen consequence of the blueprint falling into less gifted hands.

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I agree with his post of course
There's a lot of factors contributing to this state of pop music
My gripe with it is that folks are getting props by default
Just because you're the only mofos with instruments dont make you ewf.

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>Just because you're the only mofos with instruments dont make
>you ewf.
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this sounds like a job for King Instigation! *rips off warmups*

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indeed it is a job 4 king instigation....not me..lol
but...................

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It's a "let's bitch about the state of live music" post... black and pop music to be more specifically.


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*can practically see AFKAP preparing a counter attack*

*pops popcorn*

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when OP alluded to D'Angelo doing "arena karaoke"

But of course Warren would respond to such an allegation only if *I* said it.

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But it goes deeper than that
The artists aren't the problem as much as the consumer's the problem
Most of these artists know better
The consumer doesn't
Especially the black/pop consumer....they've been so tricked that they believe a good show is the ability to sing along to every song or to see shit that the performers supposed to do
like someone said above, i refuse to spend $100+ to see jay z because I KNOW BETTER
there's a reason why cats like the ojays can still tour after 40 years in the game
i dont see the bep's or kanye being able to do the same
or maybe i can because of the consumer

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"Most of these artists know better"

Especially someone like Kanye who's ego has him convinced he's really more than he is (I actually like quite a bit of his music btw)

I might be inclined to say the same for Gaga considering some of the statements I've seen attributed to her lately.

But the bottom line most of these "stars" don't know better. When everyone around you is telling you something is great it's not hard to get caught up into believing your own hype. What used to be the firewall in this was peer pressure... but when your best live acts have nothing more than mediocre stage presence it's hard to be challenged enough to block out the yes men and raise your game.


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Its not up to the entourage to make you step your shit up
They're there for a purpose
It wasn't LL's entourage that made him step his shit up after Walking failed
It was the public
The public's the one that support this garbage being fed as a SHOW
If there was a collective front that called them out
Best believe shit would be different
But I dont see that happen sans a few gripes and blogs which is like throwing rocks at a passing ship
There's praise for them doing the bare minimum

If the public stopped supporting crap and forced these mofos to step up their shit, they would
Kanye and Gaga are limited talents but they're pop artists
Gaga is smart and studied what worked in the past and is playing on it
'Ye wants to be an artist on a Radiohead level so bad but he can't.....he just doesnt have it

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and there is some merit to putting some of this on the public. But what I'm trying to tell you is the public doesn't know better so how can they drive anything? The irony in all of this is with acts only making a fraction of what they used to from record sales a top flight live act carries more weight now than it ever has. Once a newer act really starts bringing it then we'll see the public pushing the rest of them to step up or get left behind.


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>now than it ever has. Once a newer act really starts bringing
>it then we'll see the public pushing the rest of them to step
>up or get left behind.
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esp. if people's money continues to grow short...

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Of course they don't know anything
We're eye 2 eye on that one
We are in a day and age where 1/2 stepping is the norm
Lighting and ballet dancers don't make a performance
These mofos wouldn't have won in a local high school talent show back in the day
Us so called old school folks know 1/2 stepping when we see it and will call it because we saw REAL SHOWS....BANDS....SINGERS....MUSICIANS...
What black band is relevant among the masses these days?
There's no history or legacy being passed on which is due to a gang of reasons
....we can wax all day about the division of black music among generations

>and there is some merit to putting some of this on the
>public. But what I'm trying to tell you is the public doesn't
>know better so how can they drive anything? The irony in all
>of this is with acts only making a fraction of what they used
>to from record sales a top flight live act carries more weight
>now than it ever has. Once a newer act really starts bringing
>it then we'll see the public pushing the rest of them to step
>up or get left behind.
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Sweet&Low was hair metal and nkotb and shit...I mean Cher endorsed that shit...
This new shit got everyone thinking its safe to eat and the digital technology is so good now that performances "are just like the sweet, sugary performances of the past" when in actuality it is just a new era of "it ain't broke, but my toolbox is so shiny I just gotta fix something"
Its like when my moms fed me margarine all my life and once I learned how to cook and used my first stick of butter I felt cheated. Most kids, all they know is the watered-down stuff...

I work with some up and coming Bay Area MCs and producers and it cracks me up how much they don't know about music and live performances of the past...but I'm also pleasantly surprised often about the shit that they do dig and retroactively get into...They teach me a lot about what's moving younger cats today and I teach them about the music they love but may not have known about because they weren't exposed to the same era...

I think we are about to reach a bottleneck in musical output...I think the trend is just so far one way that the backlash is coming soon...I don't know what will do it, but people will get sick of paying big money for bullshit live acts and begin to appreciate true artistry and live performance...the only thing that needs to happen is for some artists to emerge in the spotlight who are actually bad muthufuckas in the talent department...No more "You mean Alicia Keys ISN'T a virtuoso on the piano?!? Bullshit, her last name is "Keys" She was born to play keyboards!"

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Pooty Tang ass clown is so lame I get cross-eyed just thinking about his level of wackness.

Nigga sound like he was locked in a room with nothing but Eddie Murphy singing albums & a keytar.

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I think this is funny mostly because Dam is setting himself up for the same traps that OP harps on neo about.
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>Nigga sound like he was locked in a room with nothing but
>Eddie Murphy singing albums & a keytar.

better than sounding like you were locked in a room with nothing but R.Kelly albums and a computer with Skype installed

I don't think Dam Funk should do much singing though. Because he makes Marcus Miller and Kashif sound like Stevie Wonder and Rick James.

Has almost nothing to do with this topic but if that helped you then cool

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sound like he was locked in a room with nothing but
>Eddie Murphy singing albums & a keytar.

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Out of the artists from say the early 90's to now who do you think actually puts on a good show? I have to go to an absurd amount of live performances on a weekly basis and I think the art of the live performance has really declined in all genres of music. People who I'm told are great live not only end up disappointing me but boring the shit out of me. I judge a live Jazz performance different than a Hip Hop, rock or R&B performance but overall I've found that a lot of live shows are seriously lacking from the bigger artists out there especially.

Phonte is a great frontman. he was fantastic with Little Brother too.

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y'all gonna have to wait a couple days for me to talk about it in depth, though...

First person that comes to mind would be Maxwell. Pretty much no frills but dude gets it done.

I haven't seen Badu in person but from the clips I have seen I'd say she gets it.

I like a lot of what Ne-Yo does live but I wouldn't want to see him in a large venue... I just don't think he has the live chops for arenas.

I've seen Chromeo a couple times with my daughter and enjoyed the hell out of it... I wouldn't call them a great live act but it was a lot of fun and the songs sounded great live.

I think Timberlake is pretty good but as we've talked about on this board many times dude is missing something.

Oh and Rahsaan Patterson.. now that dude ain't no joke.

I'm sure there are others that will come to mind but right now those are a few of the ones I'd pay to see.

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>First person that comes to mind would be Maxwell. Pretty much
>no frills but dude gets it done.

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>I haven't seen Badu in person but from the clips I have seen
>I'd say she gets it.

Agree on Maxwell and Badu. Anytime they come to town I make it a point to see them. Great stage presence, great songs and they know how to entertain without trying too hard.
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>I like a lot of what Ne-Yo does live but I wouldn't want to
>see him in a large venue... I just don't think he has the live
>chops for arenas.

Ne-Yo is "fun" and I think he puts on a good show but he has paper thin vocals so it's hard for me to recommend him. I'm not a big Alicia Keys fan but she does put on an entertaining live show for me.
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>I've seen Chromeo a couple times with my daughter and enjoyed
>the hell out of it... I wouldn't call them a great live act
>but it was a lot of fun and the songs sounded great live.
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>I think Timberlake is pretty good but as we've talked about on
>this board many times dude is missing something.
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>Oh and Rahsaan Patterson.. now that dude ain't no joke.
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>I'm sure there are others that will come to mind but right now
>those are a few of the ones I'd pay to see.
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>*edit*
>I guess Mint started in the 90s so add them in too

Mint Condition has always put on great live shows to me. Oh and I'd add R Kelly when he is really in his zone which for me he hasn't been for about 8 or 9 years but I do plan on checking him out on this tour because it seems like he's been putting the focus back on his live performances.

I have noticed a resurgence in live performances with some of the independent R&B/soul acts out there like Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and Fitz & The Tantrums that put on really fun, energetic live shows.
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While watching Smokey Robinson tear it up last night
I thought about this post and I fully get what OP's trying to say
Not only did he have 2 hours+ full of hits, he delivered on every single song
dude even got a standing o for ripping ooh baby baby like it was 1963
and that was only the 4th song into his set...
I can't see any of today's artists in their golden years getting it in like that
He's taken care of his instrument, his voice, very well over the years.
I would highly suggest checking him out if he came to town whether you're a fan or not, but to see how its supposed to be done live.

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It's not just R&B or Hip Hop. The veteran groups usually put on good shows (NIN, U2, etc) and a few newbies (Muse, My Chem) but there is way too much shoegazing and boredom going on at rock shows too.

>It's not just R&B or Hip Hop.
>but there is way too much shoegazing
>and boredom going on at rock shows too.

I know this and was wondering why a genre that's been giving listeners a better sound than what other ones are doing is getting more flack.

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>>It's not just R&B or Hip Hop.
>>but there is way too much shoegazing
>>and boredom going on at rock shows too.
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>I know this and was wondering why a genre that's been giving
>listeners a better sound than what other ones are doing is
>getting more flack.

OP is talking about the genres he knows/cares about which is R&B/Soul, Pop & Hip Hop show. I didn't get the impression that he was saying that R&B live shows suck but Rock shows are off the hook because you probably wouldn't catch him at a Foo Fighters concert so he's not gonna talk about shit he doesn't follow.
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