if anything 'alternative R&B' is becoming more of the standard R&B of this generation because it's the indicative sound currently. She doesn't need to have this attitude about the label, I understand her frustration tho because she perceives she's only being called R&B because she's black but...... I mean at least when I listen to her music, I hear R&B that has non-traditional elements from the R&B I grew up listening to..... closest definition to that I can find is alternative R&B
Right. Santigold has a point since she is not remotely any form of R&B, but this girl here... bye.
Exacty. Santigold is the perfect example of someone who is black but isn't R&B. While FKA Twigs has some non-R&B elements in her music, her melodies and style are definitely R&B. If you took a few instrumental layers out of her music, it would sound exactly like SZA and Kelela.
Yet her music is interchangeable with the the other girls and she's only getting shine b/c she's apart of the trend. There's nothing punk about it.
This is so false
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"When I first released music and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before, it's not in a genre,'” she continued. “And then my picture came out six months later, now she's an R&B singer. I share certain sonic threads with classical music; my song “Preface” is like a hymn. So let's talk about that. If I was white and blonde and said I went to church all the time, you'd be talking about the 'choral aspect'. But you're not talking about that because I'm a mixed-race girl from south London
This is so true
People are so quick to label something R&B if a black or in this case mixed race person sings it. Same with Rihanna or a lot of Beyoncé songs.
This is so true
People are so quick to label something R&B if a black or in this case mixed race person sings it. Same with Rihanna or a lot of Beyoncé songs.
ddd If Twigs is punk then BANKS is bubblegum pop, Nicki is gospel & Katy is metalcore.
She needs to calm down and accept that she makes alternative/R&B influenced music, sure she ventures into other genres (which usually end up being her best songs) but Alt R&B is her main style.
Overall obviously but she has quite a few songs that get labeled as R&B even though they are pop songs and would be regarded as pop songs if she wasn't a woman of colour..
Overall obviously but she has quite a few songs that get labeled as R&B even though they are pop songs and would be regarded as pop songs if she wasn't a woman of colour..
She's right. The tendency to pigeonhole black artists as solely R&B singers is extremely frustrating, especially when it's coated with vaguely offensive terms like "alternative R&B." It's beside the point if her music has elements of R&B; of course it does, but that's just one of MANY genres she incorporates and we all know what you're doing when you narrow it down to just R&B. The entire concept of genres needs to die, really, but that'll never happen.
Girl needs to have a seat, I love her music but when I heard it I thought R&B. Maybe if she doesn't wanna be part of a stereotype or genre she shouldn't release song about ****ing a guy better than some other girl?
Sorry but I had no idea what FKA Twigs looked like when I first heard "Two Weeks" and I instantly labeled it as Alternative R&B. It's definitely not experimental because it's been done many times before. I see she is trying to pretend she created this style and it doesn't sit well with me.
I agree with this.
The first song I heard by her was "Papi Pacify" before I ever saw what she looked like and I thought of it as alternative R&B as well. Obviously she has songs that aren't alt. R&B though.
A lot of these music reviewers and critics know nothing about R&B, don't know how expansive and experimental the genre has historically been. So they assume stuff about the genre and then think these new girls coming in with their airy vocals and cold, watery productions are doing something shocking and different than whatever they think R&B is. But the truth is that R&B artists such as Janet, Aaliyah, etc. have all produced stuff that was incredibly experimental and encompassing of multiple genres. It's ignorance, plain and simple.