Written by- Andrea Franklin
I feel today's music has slipped under some kind of musical spell, where everything has to sound the same and the artist have to all fit the same look to meet some kind of copy quoter. I don't know if it's because im getting older or is it really that the industry has changed to the point were they just don't care anymore as long as it generates CASH CASH CASH!!!. With the exception of a few good singers/rappers I see that it doesn't take talent at all to be an entertainer as long as you can show your a$$ for the carmera or rap about the dumbest things that have todays youth up in a roar to copy and be down because of what they see and hear from their favorite entertainers. It's shameful to me.
What happened to our R&B SOUL singers? The ones you could feel something deep when they sung. What happened to the sound, the tease, the love of the music?
I remember listening to old school R&B and feeling like I had to experience and want the kind of love they talked about or feeling from a song that the group or singer understood my heartbreak. Now today's R&B and music in general leaves nothing to the imagination at all. Every song to me is straight up about sex, no real love songs or imagining how love can be, it's straight to the point now. It shows to me that they want our youth to give up on love and how to treat a female/male in order to commit to be in a real strong relationship without giving up the "goods" because that's what some of the great timeless R&B songs were about, being in a solid, loving relationship or coping with a bad one without degrading the female with nasty names and provocative images, and Hip Hop told a story of the struggle, a protest for the culture it was a fight. Lets be real today's youth are more easily influenced by what they see and hear especially from an entertainer and some just don't understand the word ENTERTAIN and how it's part of their job to glamorize and profit from what's not real or your reality at all and in some cases not the artist reality either. Now It's like they write these songs with the intention to distract people from getting to know each other rather, they give you the feeling to quickly engage in sexually acts or violence because it's hip or cool because your favorite singer/rapper saids so. It seems we've lost a whole generation and the music that is being rotated is one out of many reasons why.
My personal choices of music would be classic R&B, some and I stress some R&B from todays artists, Neo-soul, conscious hip hop and pop music, the ones that make sense to me. The more I think about the world we live in and how crazy things has been getting I think it's fitting that like everything that changes so does music and I guess its ok for this time. NAH! I still think it's crazy, matter of fact as I mentioned earlier it's like a spell and what it does is forces you into the craziness. Real singers/rappers had to put in their hard work, pay their dues and show some kind of talent, knowledge and skills for music to become famous most artists took years to get a successful music career going, Now anyone can be an "instant star" all you need is a YouTube account, simple lyrics, a catchy hook behind a great beat and a video that makes no sense to the song. Or of course you can go on one of the many t.v shows and showcase your talent or lack there of one and pray you win and your prize includes a bogus contract.
All and all Be careful of what you listen to or have your children listen to because music is very powerful it influence us to behave and feel different when we listen to it, it sets our moods and feelings. I love all genres of music and I hope that this crazy industry that controls our music and what is put out, get it together to allow the love and common sense to be popular again.
Feel free to share or express your feelings on the music of today. You can comment if you like the music of today and where it's going or if you feel the same as I do. And to make it fun tell me your favorite old school R&B or RAP song/artist.
1LUV
What happened to our R&B SOUL singers? The ones you could feel something deep when they sung. What happened to the sound, the tease, the love of the music?
I remember listening to old school R&B and feeling like I had to experience and want the kind of love they talked about or feeling from a song that the group or singer understood my heartbreak. Now today's R&B and music in general leaves nothing to the imagination at all. Every song to me is straight up about sex, no real love songs or imagining how love can be, it's straight to the point now. It shows to me that they want our youth to give up on love and how to treat a female/male in order to commit to be in a real strong relationship without giving up the "goods" because that's what some of the great timeless R&B songs were about, being in a solid, loving relationship or coping with a bad one without degrading the female with nasty names and provocative images, and Hip Hop told a story of the struggle, a protest for the culture it was a fight. Lets be real today's youth are more easily influenced by what they see and hear especially from an entertainer and some just don't understand the word ENTERTAIN and how it's part of their job to glamorize and profit from what's not real or your reality at all and in some cases not the artist reality either. Now It's like they write these songs with the intention to distract people from getting to know each other rather, they give you the feeling to quickly engage in sexually acts or violence because it's hip or cool because your favorite singer/rapper saids so. It seems we've lost a whole generation and the music that is being rotated is one out of many reasons why.
My personal choices of music would be classic R&B, some and I stress some R&B from todays artists, Neo-soul, conscious hip hop and pop music, the ones that make sense to me. The more I think about the world we live in and how crazy things has been getting I think it's fitting that like everything that changes so does music and I guess its ok for this time. NAH! I still think it's crazy, matter of fact as I mentioned earlier it's like a spell and what it does is forces you into the craziness. Real singers/rappers had to put in their hard work, pay their dues and show some kind of talent, knowledge and skills for music to become famous most artists took years to get a successful music career going, Now anyone can be an "instant star" all you need is a YouTube account, simple lyrics, a catchy hook behind a great beat and a video that makes no sense to the song. Or of course you can go on one of the many t.v shows and showcase your talent or lack there of one and pray you win and your prize includes a bogus contract.
All and all Be careful of what you listen to or have your children listen to because music is very powerful it influence us to behave and feel different when we listen to it, it sets our moods and feelings. I love all genres of music and I hope that this crazy industry that controls our music and what is put out, get it together to allow the love and common sense to be popular again.
Feel free to share or express your feelings on the music of today. You can comment if you like the music of today and where it's going or if you feel the same as I do. And to make it fun tell me your favorite old school R&B or RAP song/artist.
1LUV