The Dream is very SIMPLE MINDED isn't he?? There are plenty of black soul artists that have done well with soulful records in the last few yrs .........

Sade, Maxwell, Neyo, and Alicia Keys have put out platinum records recently ( last few yrs) ..... Emile Sande is doing welll in the UK ..................................................

What do they have in common???? Hmmm ..... they make SINCERE & INTELLIGENT MUSIC. Theyre etter songwriting than most R&B artists today and also better songwriters than The Dream.

The best soul singers are in America .... JHud, Fantasia, Monica, Brandy, Leela James, R Kelly, Jazmine Sullivan, Mary J, Usher, Neyo, Chrisette Michele, Keyshia Cole, Elle Varner., Leela James .. The best WRITERS are in the UK right now.... although Neyo is a good songwriter.

We have great singers and plenty of R&B fans but the artists and labels are giving us CRAPPY MUSIC and no one is buying it!!!!!! . Adele is WRITER!

Are record labels still signing great r&b singer/songwriters like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, DAngelo, Angie Stone, Lauryn Hill, Maxwell, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Alicia Keys, Marvin Gaye, India ARI ANYMORE?????????? Where have the instruments gone ?

I thought Elle Varner would give us some live instruments like Maxwell, Sade, Dangelo, and L. Hill BUT she is singing over hip hop beats like everyone else.

It seems like labels were signing & promoting composer/singer /songwriters in the 90s but not anymore.

I am desperate for a great soul record. I look forward to Jazmine Sullivan's new CD but her label needs to have her cowrite with more experience writers like Adele did.