"Bring back genuine R@B!!!"

Please preach! let's face it , the songwriting in r@b is pretty rubbish too. Young people, there was a time when genuine musicianship and the concept of "jamming" was important to r@B. where big.noisy,vacant drum beats didn't count for shit next to genuine syncopation, when there was a genuine bassline in a tune as part of the melody. Excellance , or at least a mantra of practice,practice,practice was what was needed before anybody dreamed of even stepping into an adult musical arena. And that is now the problem. older record executives as well as being the leeches they have probably always been have now shifted far too much of attention to sideways pimping these young artists until they become "brands". When you get too caught up in promoting yourself and not your music, it's obvious that the music will suffer.It may sell, but it will, no doubt, suffer. Plus a lack of adult perspective in the music is beginning to really jar me. but my friend really hit it on the head. She honest to god calls radio R@B "crack" music. She also says that this generation carries on like they invented sex, but that lyrically they appear to be unknowingly uninspired by sex. And I think she is right. R@B "soul" is on a vacation right now and Lord knows where the funk has gone!