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Originally posted by fortheloveofmusic
At this point it shouldn't matter if Vince pulled some strings. Sometimes you have to play dirty with dirt.
All of your faves have used the same tactics whether y'all want to believe it or not. If an R&B artist has to use the same tactics, oh well. Why should she be exempt from the same tricks when Pop artists do it all time (and no one complains when they do it).
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Originally posted by DASLAYER
You girls just need to shut the hell sometimes really. The bitch slayed every pop girl who thought it was safe to rely on Techno and house beats. Clearly people are done with that era look at the Top 10. it's fading out. People want real emotions and lyrics again...Tamar has arrived and she sitting pretty on the top. DEAL WITH IT.
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Both of you are my 2 new best friends!
Honestly, I couldn't care less if some behind the scenes strings were being pulled. The music business is dirty and every pop bitch whose had a smash hit over the past 5 years has played in the mud to get it, so don't call shenanigans when an R&B diva decides to do it too.
But more than that, I think people are just starting to tire of dance/pop and cheesy sing-a-long music, and are ready to see some real vocalists and serious music come back. "Adorn" was really the first song to crack the door open for the revitalization of R&B and it looks like "Love and War" might push it open a little further.
If anyone's paid attention to history, they'd know that lighthearted pop music always comes back at the end of a decade, grows larger than every other genre of music, then fades out as the new decade starts to take it's own shape. It happened between 1988 and 1992, then again from 1997 to 2001, and now it might be happening again. Dance/Pop has history of being used as an diversion from what had dominated the sound of the prior decade and an intermission to what will define the next. It's not built to last because it's shallow and after a while people will grow tired of its cheesiness.
Not only do I hope R&B makes a major return in 2013, I also hope real alpha rock (not indie-rock, or pop-rock...but metal and thrash) does too. It's time to move beyond the bouncy and lighthearted and embrace the introspective and real.