What happened to male r&b groups?
Gary
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It just struck me that I haven't heard of a male r&b group in a long time. Female either for that matter...
What is this generations boys 2 men? Is there one?
What is this generations boys 2 men? Is there one?
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Ever heard of LSG?
I just checked the billboard r&b 25.
No groups charting this week. This singer featuring that rapper and that rapper featuring this singer mostly.
TGT Is made up of three washed up soloists from the 90s.
I dont check charts as a baromteter in 2014, but they performed at the BET awards this summer.
Overall its a dying genre but its still repped.
Fuck Boys 2 Men.
Then they can turn them into this sort of abomination.
The genre you're looking for is Doo-wop, and Doo-wop is hard as fuck.
I think the industry will tolerate 1D and dem, for the teenagers, but these acts are just puppets for the industry, no? Cowell and dem making the thick end of those deals.
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this is correct.
groups = less money for each individual, so artists are less inclined to do it. and also = more difficult to manage/produce/control, so less incentive on the label end.
Trey Songs to mix things up.
Rnb radio is just as likely to play rock crossover stuff like that Magic "rude" song these days. Format is kind of out the window.
These other stations are on some Power/Hot/Bad Hip Hop format.
No more crews.
Groups are still the thing in rock? Seems like that would be hard to change.
Jazz? Leader+trio/quartet... Yellowjackets were the last "great" jazz group?
I think it is a shame. Can't see how you can be an R&B fan and not a fan of harmony singing.
When a group works, in any genre, the whole becomes more than the sum of the parts. Magic happens.
There are still groups, crews, trios, and duos in Hip Hop.
I think R&B groups will swing back into favor down the line.
What's really gone are R&B Bands. Mint Condition was the last of mohicans in the 90's.
The Roots are still doing it.
The group format lasted for so many decades it is strange that it largely disappeared - although understandable given some of the explanation given above (money).
And yeah in Asia (or at least in Korea) the group format is just as big as ever. And akb48 in japan? I don't even know how that's possible.
Interested to see of there will a comeback for the group format. Female groups too.
" After the release of Midnight Memories, One Direction became the first band in the US Billboard 200's history to have their first three albums debut at number one.[4] Additionally, the album was a global success, debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and became the biggest selling album worldwide of 2013"
Yup.
They died once Beyonce went solo. They dissolved in 2006.
And even throughout their run, it was always perceived as a launching pad for Beyonce.
R.Kelly didnt give a fuck and left his peeps after the first album back in the early '90s.
Truthfully the R&B group game was weak by the late 90s/early 00s.
112, Next, Jagged Edge and them are overall wack w/ a small handfull of classics.
Electrik Red - The Dream girl group from 2009.
To me this is one of the best covers of all time:
Jodeci - Lately
Also, this is kind of unrelated, but I always thought doo-wop or an early r&b sound with explicit lyrics could definitely be huge in this day and age. People will always love a catchy melody. Even barbershop, without the irony.