@ xedos

I can't take anyone seriously who writes "RNB." Meanwhile, there were enough spelling and grammatical flubs in there to make an idiot stew. The biggest selling album in history (Thriller) is R&B. The 2nd biggest selling album of the 2000s (Confessions) was R&B...and the biggest (No Strings Attached) was released by a group that TRIED TO BE/THOUGHT they were R&B. The biggest selling film soundtrack of all time (The Bodyguard) was headlined by a R&B artist.

Sounds like someone is just a fan of pop music and is trying to negate the significance of R&B because they can't personally relate to it. But guess what...not everyone relates to a corny, dorky and obnoxious pop song with 100 bpm made by (or for) dudes in skinny jeans and bad emo hair. And the "pop" listening public tends to be fickle. Already we're seeing pop stars who were huge in 2010 starting to crack. As overblown as pop music has been these past 4 years, it's really only a matter of time before the public gravitates towards something else. It always happens.

Out of nowhere Pop music will come along and blow up bigger than any other genre for a few years, then after the machine force feeds it to the public, it suffers a backlash for most of the following decade. It happened in the late 70s and early 80s...in the late 80s and early 90s...and again in the late 90s and early 00s. Mark my words, the days of Gaga/Katy/Rihanna/LMFAO and the goofy dance pop that they make are winding down. Hell, some even argue that the album that killed them (21) was R&B-tinged.