It's a question of taste I guess, but these modern R&B artists, in the American sense of the term, leave me cold.
The stuff they do sounds to me like the pap you see on X Factor, Fame Academy and the like.
The guys put forward as examples of today's Black Music, like Joe & Brian McKnight don't sound much different to
Justin Timberlake to my ears. I guess this music just isn't for us forty-somethings, is it?
When Motown was at its height, Marvin Gaye was 23 or 24 years old & the people buying his records just
a few years younger. To every thing there is a season, no?