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Some people see Disco as just a big cash-in, even though it was a major part of R&B. |
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Considering how much success they had with their artistic makeover,how can anyone argue that it was a bad idea? I didn't see it as jumping on a bandwagon...those guys have always loved R&B sounds.JoeTyler said:
guy started as a young teen playing acoustic guitar, becoming a youtube celeb, then $$$$$ knocked on his door and he embraced studio guidance and synths-playback-autotune sellout in my book, no matter how young he was
Anyway, for a true sell-out I say Jay Z. The dude went from street corner to corner office and is a millionaire of a business mogul but exploits people who are in the same position he used to be in as well as the average middle class citizen. With his past, you'd think he'd be much more adamant about giving back to the community and looking to uplift this generation of (black) youth but the dude is all about money now. The only thing he's good for these days music-wise is bragging about how rich he is but not without reminding us that he's still a gangsta/ about that life and pretty much repeating what he's said on his earlier albums; we get it dude, you made it, you're a success story, shut up. Jay has nothing important to say anymore but that doesn't stop him from spouting hot air and weak, petty, and self-indulging lines on every track he's featured on or every song he makes now. Jay is as real as his wife's hair but he'll take every opportunity to say that he's anything but. [Edited 5/8/15 13:52pm] | |
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Adorecream said:
No its becauase Elton also came out as a Bisexual man in 1976 in a Rolling Stone interview and Americans abandoned him in droves. He crossed over with his country pop and R and B tinged Americana inhis music, but these same people who have a "traditional" view on religion and society could not stand to listen to the utterings of a bisexual and a sodomite and some one who did not love American God and Jeebasus. . He had no big hits in the US again until Little Jeannie in 1980 and mainly as it was about a girl. America was even more homophobic back then. Same thing happened to Queen with Freddies cross dressing in the 1984 song video I wanna break free. What little momentum Queen had got in the USA to that point had gone and was not retsored until Waynes World in 1992. . I guess Americans don't mind if someone is gay, but when they act gay and rub it in their face, that is different, after all Boy George and George Michael did well until they fully emerged as GAY. Lets not forget how the British music establishment shunned Boy George and Culture Club by banning their participation in Band Aid. Obviously Boy George's homosexuality made the British public nervous. | |
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