In reply to Queen of Disco (Beyonce's Weave).

The R&B of the 90's (New Jack Swing) sounds NOTHING like the R&B of 2004 (Crunk n' B) and from 2000-2005 R&B DOMINATED music sales being the highest selling genre for several years in the US. In fact, in 2004, EVERY single artist to hit #1 on the Billboard 100 was either an R&B or hip hop artist. When the powers that be figured out that R&B had now become the new POP, they shut that down real quick, combining the R&B chart with hip hop to push a lot of R&B artists off the chart. So many R&B artists wanted to collaborate with hip hop artists and now the genre sounds like hip hop. Its interesting that the highest selling R&B artists last year like Mary J Blige and A Keys actually sound closer to either 90's or TRADITIONAL R&B unlike Brandy and Ciara's new efforts.