Most Underrated/Overrated Artists (blues, beatles, u2, springsteen, Nickelback)

~~Soulflower~~ · 01-27-2014, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Fantasia deserves to be under the earth.

What makes you say that? Fantasia sangggs unlike many singers who just sing. She moves people with her voice and has a natural soulfulness to her voice something that is desperately missing from the mainstream female singers.

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

She's not that great at all and is the odd person out on that list.

Janet and Chrisette Michelle have won Grammys so I don't even see how you can say they are underrated.

Janet is CRIMINALLY underrated. She gets casted as just MJ's little sister outside America in certain countriesand the American music industry have not be nice to her over the last 10 years.

She was blacklisted and censored most of the last 10 years on American radios and music stations like MTV and VH1.

Also, her influence is very underrated. Alot of people cite Madonna as a the primary influence on todays pop female entertainers when Janet has had just as much of an influence

Her discography is underrated as well.

Chrisette Michelle just has one grammy and besides she is one of the best female vocalist of her generation. She is a great live singer and she is way better singer than most of the mainstream singers that are glorified.

djchameleon · 01-27-2014, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by realtalk92

What makes you say that? Fantasia sangggs unlike many singers who just sing. She moves people with her voice and has a natural soulfulness to her voice something that is desperately missing from the mainstream female singers.

I'm so glad the diva showboating voice is missing from mainstream female singers. I always thought it was awful and it's the main reason I cringe any time Christina Aguilera sings. What you calling "saaaaangs" needs to stay in churches.

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Originally Posted by realtalk92

Janet is CRIMINALLY underrated. She gets casted as just MJ's little sister outside America in certain countriesand the American music industry have not be nice to her over the last 10 years.

She was blacklisted and censored most of the last 10 years on American radios and music stations like MTV and VH1.

What has she done in the last 10 years?

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Originally Posted by realtalk92

Also, her influence is very underrated. Alot of people cite Madonna as a the primary influence on todays pop female entertainers when Janet has had just as much of an influence

Her discography is underrated as well.

Janet's influence isn't on pop music , it's on R&B music that's why she doesn't get credit for it as she shouldn't. It's weird that you would reduce her influence to being over pop music instead of R&B.

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Originally Posted by realtalk92

Chrisette Michelle just has one grammy and besides she is one of the best female vocalist of her generation. She is a great live singer and she is way better singer than most of the mainstream singers that are glorified.

She is still a critical darling and having one Grammy is enough to kick you out of being underrated. Most R&B singers are in the same boat that she is in though. So I don't know what more you want. America isn't really huge into R&B unless it is Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke.

**Janszoon** · 01-28-2014, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

America isn't really huge into R&B unless it is Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke.

lol. Or Michael Jackson or Whitney Houston or Stevie Wonder or Beyoncé or any of the dozens of other artists who have made R&B one of the most popular genres of American music of the past half century or so.

djchameleon · 01-28-2014, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

lol. Or Michael Jackson or Whitney Houston or Stevie Wonder or Beyoncé or any of the dozens of other artists who have made R&B one of the most popular genres of American music of the past half century or so.

Laugh all you want but those artists are in the minority. Industry execs don't want to give deals to R&B artists because they don't generate enough sales.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-28-2014, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Laugh all you want but those artists are in the minority. Industry execs don't want to give deals to R&B artists because they don't generate enough sales.

To be fair there have been a ton of RnB artists who've gone mainstream in the US. Late 90's up to the present day, ****ing loads of them. Chris Brown, Outkast (arguably), Lauryn Hill, Neyo, Brandi, TLC, Usher, Alicia Keys, Frank Ocean, Janelle Monae, The Weeknd, loads and loads and loads.

If you mean those are in the minority cos lots of others don't get signed isn't that just the norm? Could be applied to every genre pretty much. I'm sure there are a load of crappy Pop acts and Rappers who don't get signed either.

Forward To Death · 01-28-2014, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Laugh all you want but those artists are in the minority. Industry execs don't want to give deals to R&B artists because they don't generate enough sales.

R&B is like the most marketable music in the entire industry, dude. Look at a list of the highest selling recording artists of the last 20 years, and see why you're wrong.

~~Soulflower~~ · 01-28-2014, 08:10 PM

I think DJ is talking about in today's popular industry. The music industry has changed and in today's industry R&B does not sell a whole lot

Overall music is not selling like it use too but country music still sells pretty well.

Forward To Death · 01-28-2014, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by realtalk92

I think DJ is talking about in today's popular industry. The music industry has changed and in today's industry R&B does not sell a whole lot

Overall music is not selling like it use too but country music still sells pretty well.

Uhh, lol that's the funniest thing I've ever heard. R&B is still very, very popular. Anyone who says otherwise isn't paying attention, or they're trolling.

~~Soulflower~~ · 01-28-2014, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

lol. Or Michael Jackson or Whitney Houston or Stevie Wonder or Beyoncé or any of the dozens of other artists who have made R&B one of the most popular genres of American music of the past half century or so.

MJ, Whitney, and Stevie were pop singers that sung many different genres.

They did not just sing R&B.

Beyonce is a pop singer that makes dance/pop music.

R&B use to be a very popular genre but it currently isn't anymore. You can't be a R&B singer and have cross over success nowadays....unless you are white. You have to make dance/pop/rap music to cross over as an African American in todays popular industry.

**Janszoon** · 01-28-2014, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by realtalk92

MJ, Whitney, and Stevie were pop singers that sung many different genres.

They did not just sing R&B.

Beyonce is a pop singer that makes dance/pop music.

R&B use to be a very popular genre but it currently isn't anymore. You can't be a R&B singer and have cross over success nowadays....unless you are white. You have to make dance/pop/rap music to cross over as an African American in todays popular industry.

Sorry but no. Modern pop to very large extent is R&B and has been that way for a couple decades.

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~~Soulflower~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,304	I think DJ is talking about in today's popular industry. The music industry has changed and in today's industry R&B does not sell a whole lot Overall music is not selling like it use too but country music still sells pretty well.