Should R&B artists go on strike?

Started by MAY, December 12, 2015, 06:27:50 PM

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Bentley!

OMG when the pictures of that neighborhood came out :plzstop: :plzstop:


LOONA.




throwintheTAL

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Scott.

Quote from: GĖ??X on December 12, 2015, 07:12:29 PM
I hate how some will say blacks don't buy music. When your faves sell 65k first week that's from actual album sales. No label manipulation or digital mess. That's what I believe and feel in my heart plus our music is being undershipped. Hip-Hop is selling well digitally but even in stores those albums aren't being massed produced. The more albums you create, the more you sell.

If your label ships out 200k albums you're gonna have a first week under 90k because half of those albums are being given to others for free and the label more than likely won't pay to produce more.

I do agree with the undershipped statement. A lot of urban artists get undershipped

Scott.

Quote from: GĖ??X on December 12, 2015, 07:38:28 PM
Quote from: BrokenHeartsHeal on December 12, 2015, 07:34:36 PM
More black girls could rocked and be relevant if the labels wanted them to. They could have put Lil Mo in the studio with Dr. Luke, snatched her body up, new wig, new life and some fertility control but Noooo we only have one or two machine for black girls (Rih), the rest of yall on your own.  :plea:

n

No. Ciara tried and horribly failed. We don't want our artists doing music not true to them.

Ugh the accuracy in these posts!!!!! I totally agree. A lot of people say R&B artists should step out and grow, which is true. but some of the shit they suggest is fucking bullshit.

I remember back in 2010, I was saying Monica should grow musically and I made a statement about her working with someone like Raphael Saadiq. "Oh no! David Guetta!" Would anyone really wanna hear Mo doing a "Forever In A Day" mess like Kelly Rowland? I think not.


Scott.

Quote from: Bentley! on December 12, 2015, 07:50:23 PM
Quote from: Stewie on December 12, 2015, 06:30:58 PM
they have to try harder.....the white artists experiment a lot more than they do
dont wanna sound like an Uncle Tom but

Yea... step ya game up black ppl!
:cheerup:

The fact that y'all think that that bullshit is true. What exactly are they experimenting with?

Herb.

December 13, 2015, 01:26:52 AM #400 Last Edit: December 13, 2015, 01:31:30 AM by Herbie
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4) Remind the Berts of first week sales at least once a week. Consistency is key to tame them.

LOONA.


Scott.

Quote from: RIG on December 12, 2015, 09:17:58 PM
Quote from: imaan. on December 12, 2015, 09:10:00 PM
I like the discussion in here. :stressed: It's something that needs to be discussed not just by black people but the music industry in general.

People can't support music they don't know about. PERIOD. You can say R&B isn't mainstream all you want but have you listened to Justin Bieber's latest album? It's R&B downe! Do you know Country music has become more R&B influenced? I was shopping a couple of weeks ago and there was this country playlist just blaring throughout the store and it was so R&B.  :plzstop: I gagged and had to Google some of the music! The melodies and even vocals are very R&B influenced. Country is a genre that thrives 'til this day. Their award shows are events and their artists book platinum consistently.

The artists being labeled 'Pop' thrive because they have a push and people KNOW their music. I think the R&B artists have a disadvantage because they don't get promotion but at the same time their people aren't checking for them like that even without the promotion. :stressed: Have you guys noticed that the sites that caters to the blacks are consistently slandering our artists, directors, celebs, etc.? The consensus of "Black Twitter" is built on making fun of our people and our celebs. Every time there's a BET Award show it's all about who can crack the funniest joke or make a meme the fastest for likes and kii's. Basically the presence of BLACK people isn't taken seriously and in turn that effects how their music is being sold. It hurts their marketing as well.

Perhaps we need white people to co-sign R&B the way the way they do with Hip-Hop so the niggas can purchase again! lol! kinda how the Black Lives Matter movement was started by a white man and the niggas followed like SHEEP!
biiiiiiiiiit

:stressed:

She preached a bit

Scott.

December 13, 2015, 01:35:03 AM #403 Last Edit: December 13, 2015, 01:35:56 AM by SCOTTland
Quote from: Bentley! on December 12, 2015, 09:46:13 PM
Quote from: Nine on December 12, 2015, 09:42:01 PM
Quote from: Lion Babe on December 12, 2015, 09:37:21 PM
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Sor but alot of these R&B gorls are really BORING
!!!!

Boring. Generic. All singing the same mess.
sssssss

and like just a couple days ago the gorls were going up over a Kmart snippet of something Keri did in like 2010 "OH SLAPS! go girl!" :dead:

like.... and then wonder why they faves ain't selling shit

we gotta stop setting them up for failure ... them not selling is actually a GOOD thing... let them flop and their career die. they had their fuckin chance

let's make way for the young black artists that have the musical talent and will take the genre different places

I don't think anyone was going up for that trap beat mess K. Michelle was posting on Instagram. I damn sure wasn't because she has way better songs than that. If I'm not mistaken, everyone dragged her for that.

throwintheTAL

December 13, 2015, 01:36:50 AM #404 Last Edit: December 13, 2015, 01:40:52 AM by straplis
Quote from: GĖ??X on December 12, 2015, 07:38:28 PM
Quote from: BrokenHeartsHeal on December 12, 2015, 07:34:36 PM
More black girls could rocked and be relevant if the labels wanted them to. They could have put Lil Mo in the studio with Dr. Luke, snatched her body up, new wig, new life and some fertility control but Noooo we only have one or two machine for black girls (Rih), the rest of yall on your own.  :plea:

n

No. Ciara tried and horribly failed. We don't want our artists doing music not true to them.
pop music fits her like a glove.  just shut the fuck up. your hearin's impaired








"our" artists? Black people can only do R&B? so sick of this niggerish mentality. my bitch can graze whatever song she fckin feels like