Something is not quite right here and I can't put my finger on what it is

Something is not quite right here and I can't put my finger on what it is.

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>disco, soul and fuck stopping at the mid 70s
>forgetting neo-soul and contemporary r&b
>splitting jazz in multiple genres while keeping hip hop as a single genre
There's something wrong alright.

OP BTFO

>disco, soul, and fuck

freudian slip, I guess

I blame it on the civil rights movement. Once blacks didn't really have anything to fight for anymore, they lost their musical mojo. Creativity comes from oppression and struggle.

take it to Stormfront, grnadpa

>grnadpa

we should just arbitrarily select a group of people and give them hardship out the ass, more struggle than fate could ever dole out herself. Then we as a population can reap the incredible art borne of their tears.

reminds me of a short story called the ones who walk away from omelas

>rich people can't make great art
I am really tired of this meme.

it's true though

if you don't have a struggle you don't have anything to drive you

that's why pop music written by bratty middle aged white men is such shit

What is some great art made by rich people? Not people who got rich off art, but who either started out rich or became rich in their lifetime before creating any art?

I hate Christgau but he was right about this in his reviews of Carly Simon.

Watch how the musical creativity dries up when Gen X starts coming of age. Black Gen Xers were the first generation who didn't live under segregation.

Neo soul is huge right now, you also forgot many sub genres of hip hop

I guess Billie Eyelash proves just how good a rich person is at music.

The last good song made by a black man was Mark Morrison's "Return Of The Mack"
Bring back funk and new jack swing

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New jack swing won't ever come back, it was a producer-driven genre and it's too much a product of the late 80s-early 90s.

Well I think as a genre it's still remembered fondly through artists like Bobby Brown, Michael Jackson, Boyz 2 Men etc
I could see it making a resurgence with relative ease. People still enjoy music with old school funk and R&B vibes (as evidenced by the popularity of acts like Daft Punk, The Weeknd, Bruno Mars etc), new jack swing is pretty much just that with a bit more hip hop influence. I think if the music industry wanted to, they could push a halfway decent new jack swing act and it would have at least a fair amount of success

>Neo soul is huge right now
Lemonade doesn't count as soul, it counts as manufactured corporate product.