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Soul/R&B music was RUINED by rap. Let me repeat that: RUINED. Go back to the 70s and 80s and you had tons of black artists (including Jackson) cranking out amazing music. With the advent of rap (which wasn't that bad at first) you got a whole new crop of artists who took it in an entirely different direction and took the oxygen out of the room for mainstream R&B/soul.
Yeah, there is still some great R&B out there - but not much of it ever hits the top 10 anymore. Rap changed the landscape and is a big reason why pop music isn't as appealing to us "old guys" as it once was.
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Your parents would say the same thing about The Beatles. Lets face it we are just old. Todays popular music today shouldn't appeal to us. It isn't being made for us. The kids love it. Same as it ever was...
Soul/R&B music was RUINED by rap. Let me repeat that: RUINED. Go back to the 70s and 80s and you had tons of black artists (including Jackson) cranking out amazing music. With the advent of rap (which wasn't that bad at first) you got a whole new crop of artists who took it in an entirely different direction and took the oxygen out of the room for mainstream R&B/soul.
Yeah, there is still some great R&B out there - but not much of it ever hits the top 10 anymore. Rap changed the landscape and is a big reason why pop music isn't as appealing to us "old guys" as it once was.
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Your parents would say the same thing about The Beatles. Lets face it we are just old. Todays popular music today shouldn't appeal to us. It isn't being made for us. The kids love it. Same as it ever was...