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exquisite taste! only high end music on my platter.
I listen to a bit of everything. Ghan, Toni, Celine, Anita, Kenny G (mainly as I do homework nowadays), Madonna, Rihanna, Brian McKnight, Mariah, Luther....list goes on.
But pretty much all of it falls under the umbrella of pop & R&B. Basically. I love melodies. I feel that sometimes people feel because they listen to music that isn't typically what a black person would rock to, that their taste is somehow "misunderstood" or "deep". Or at least some act as if it is.
As black people, our first love will almost instinctively be R&B. Hip hop's deep rooting into our culture explains its inescapability, which remains solid; regardless of how many new routes we take, we always return home, even if only for a short period of time .The people singing many of these songs LOOK like us, SOUND like us, and have gone through things that only we could understand as a community. Which explains some pockets of controversy when melanin challenged people attempt to step foot into this territory.
However, I do applaud those who can step outside the box and try new things.
