It has been brought up how there are no black mega groups anymore i.e New Edition. One reason for that is while white groups throw sexuality out there as a part of there whole act, black groups these days seem to build there whole image around sex. Except for 112, although they did go there on "Anywhere". New Edition wasn't Jodeci but they also wasn't so cookie cutter. As they got older they addressed more adult issue. Still they did this with class and maturity. Why is it that all music nowadays is so sexual? I think this is partly due to the merger of hip hop and r&b. I still listen to it, but I'm so sick of all the time hearing about no good men, gold diggin hoochies, and going to the club friday night drinking cristal while wearing Gucci, Prada, or whatever. I was like fine, it's okay if Biggie Smalls (May he RIP) talks about that kind of stuff. But when it started making it's way into r&b, "It made me Ill" (pun intended). So that's why I don't think we have a lot of more popular mainstream acts. Oh and another thing to think about, a lot of blacks complain about whites who dance like us (What does that mean?) or work with black producer. And I've also heard us complain about the white formula: 5 white guys from Orlando,FL=Success. Well think about all this influx of black male groups. They are just as formulated as Nsync or the BackStreet Boys. Some white guy or brothers also (we now are owning are own record companies) are telling us how to dress and what kind of songs to sing. I'm so sick of that. That's why I've totally dissed that whole genre and now "Who is Jill Scott", and "Mama's Gun" get heavy rotation in my Cd player. Sorry for the long post.
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