R&B evolved and people just gotta accept it tbh. I get people wanting that outside rainy you wet as hell outside of your girl window touching and rubbing your chest music but we’re passed that at the moment.
I'd record my s*** but I'm shy I'll keep it brief
I agree SZA and Summer Walker are killing it rn
But that's 2 artists! And in 90's 2000's there were so many R&B artists out there killing it
Even if you only look at the female R&B artists there were way more in the mainstream and even ppl who wanted to make a mainstream song would either make it R&B influenced or put an R&B hook on it
Facts are today rap took over as the leading genre and you have a lot of R&B artists who are doing some rap s*** or embracing some rapper like persona like Brent Faiyaz
That is the reason why people say mainstream R&B is dead
Plus SZA hasn't dropped in 5 years and she didn't single handedly save R&B
The industry is so desperate, the "biggest" R&B artist for the last few years was H.E.R., who is OK but you have to admit it's some mysterious music
And I don't have any problem with R&B being mysterious and all in for R&B singers trying to sing and bring that soul back but the peak is over, at least until we see an actual comeback
If it was plenty R&B girls killing it you'd have more of a point but if it's just 2 and the others in the sidelines then I just don't see it
I get what you were saying up until “H.E.R was the biggest R&B of the last few years” cause at no point that was true
RnB is in a good state idc. SZA and Brent Faiyaz are killing it. Hook up culture has changed the way people love. Outside of corny unauthentic fake toxic artists - we have way more honesty lyrically. Nobody wanna hear that you’re my sunshine I’ll wait for you til I die bs anymore (nothing against the classics). And yeah women are going IN!