What genre is in control right now??? (country, hip-hop, metal)

ThaPessimist · 01-20-2008, 10:42 AM

I have only been listening to old hip-hop. What is popular right now????

Rainard Jalen · 01-20-2008, 11:39 AM

It's contemp r&b and pop rap in the main, with a bit of pop punk/pop rock here and there. Just as it's been since the early nineties.

icebox · 01-22-2008, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

It's contemp r&b and pop rap in the main, with a bit of pop punk/pop rock here and there. Just as it's been since the early nineties.

yeah.. i think that's really true these days..

Zer0 · 01-22-2008, 03:00 AM

Hip Hop is dead, it died in the early 90's. Everything else that followed was mainstream ****e.

tkpb938 · 01-20-2008, 11:59 AM

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It's contemp r&b and pop rap in the main, with a bit of pop punk/pop rock here and there. Just as it's been since the early nineties.

Yup... unfortunately

GravitySlips · 01-20-2008, 12:06 PM

doom metal

~~CAPTAIN CAVEMAN~~ · 01-20-2008, 08:40 PM

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doom metal

for sure

Seltzer · 01-20-2008, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

It's contemp r&b and pop rap in the main, with a bit of pop punk/pop rock here and there. Just as it's been since the early nineties.

I'm generally pretty open towards different tastes, but I really don't understand contemporary R&B. Old R&B was good, but the newer version is possibly the most generic music ever written.

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doom metal

Haha yes!

Rainard Jalen · 01-21-2008, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Seltzer

I'm generally pretty open towards different tastes, but I really don't understand contemporary R&B. Old R&B was good, but the newer version is possibly the most generic music ever written.

Yeah, it is true - personally I see them as different genres, not two sides of the same coin. "Contemp R&B" is just urban pop: the mellow, laid-back beats of hiphop infused with a dose of lame pop divaship, or worse, the likes of Akon, T-Pain and Ne-Yo.

If one played some old rhythm and blues to a bunch of kids exposed only to urban contemp, they'd have no idea that they were listening to something that was also once termed "rhythm and blues". This to me shows that attempts to group them under a single umbrella are dubious, tenuous at best. Hell, modern r&b listeners don't even RESPECT old r&b. I've never come across an urban contemp station willing to play, every now and then, a 60s/70s r&b track. That's because they realize it just doesn't fit in with their sound at all. Modern rock stations by contrast will always be happy to play an old classic here and there.

ProggyMan · 01-21-2008, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

Yeah, it is true - personally I see them as different genres, not two sides of the same coin. "Contemp R&B" is just urban pop: the mellow, laid-back beats of hiphop infused with a dose of lame pop divaship, or worse, the likes of Akon, T-Pain and Ne-Yo.

If one played some old rhythm and blues to a bunch of kids exposed only to urban contemp, they'd have no idea that they were listening to something that was also once termed "rhythm and blues". This to me shows that attempts to group them under a single umbrella are dubious, tenuous at best. Hell, modern r&b listeners don't even RESPECT old r&b. I've never come across an urban contemp station willing to play, every now and then, a 60s/70s r&b track. That's because they realize it just doesn't fit in with their sound at all. Modern rock stations by contrast will always be happy to play an old classic here and there.

What happened to Akon making time capsules of modern music?

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01-20-2008, 10:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
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01-20-2008, 11:39 AM	#2 (permalink)
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