Yep, same way i feel, makes it worse being a college student, the majority of people listen to it and to me it all sounds too the same. R&B i hate but i am a fan of old Rap/Hip-Hop where there lyrics were actually about life and the hardships. All i hear today is about how some girl can fuck and is a slut (seems to be all women are in music today) how they own several guns and they will pop a cap out the window of some shitty but expensive car. It sounds like someone reading off a shopping list to a beat.
You said it man!
That freaks me out that the majority listen to it. Can't teach good taste eh?
A neighbor of mine had his radio tuned to pop/r&b the other morning, and although I couldn't hear the lows at all, I swear the same song was playing for 53 minutes. Sadly, I look down on people who just hear music rather than listen to it. R&B is so empty and obvious, I am at a loss to explain why it's so popular.(of course, the videos are more important than the music these days)
"I like it because its got a good beat." - I've heard this excuse so often from people when I call them out for listening to crap. If they knew anything about music, they'd use the word
rhythm not
beat. They like the shit because it has the same qualities of all the previous shit they've adored because it was on the radio. "That's some catchy shit man!!!" Chris Rock
You can make a hit song with one simple element. The clap-snare as I call it, works every fuckin time. You know the one where the snare drum hit is softened as a hands-clap sound(50 cent "its your birthday" or whatever) - it's so fucking money in making a song "sound cool" to the half-wits who buy this shit.
R&B sucks arse!:thefinger
