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Reply #30 posted 09/05/17 4:17pm

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phunkdaddy said:

missfee said:

I'm not feeling her new music at all. I hate when seasoned, talented artists abandon their loyal fan base to attract a new and younger fan base who really aren't paying attention to them anyway. confused

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Seems like that shit has extended to Ledisi too. lol

Yep! I heard a couple tracks from her upcoming album. She has fallen into this contemporary trap, too. Another one I will probably pass on. I hope Lalah doesnt go down this same path next month with her album. This is another reason why music is not selling, particularly R&B. Most of it is so interchangable and sounds exactly the same. Shame that Bruno Mars is probably the only male singer I can think of who is releasing more traditional sounding R&B music that actually charts.
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Reply #31 posted 09/05/17 4:40pm

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kitbradley said:

Shame that Bruno Mars is probably the only male singer I can think of who is releasing more traditional sounding R&B music that actually charts.

Why exactly is popular 2017 R&B supposed to sound like something from 20 or 30 years ago? Did Teddy Pendergrass, Midnight Star, and Luther Vandross sound like R&B from the 1940s & 1950s? No they didn't. Sounds change. Top 40 radio has always pretty much been geared towards a younger audience. They're the ones who were more likely to buy records especially singles or in todays case watch Youtube videos or stream. Millenials haven't lived in a world where hip hop has not existed, so that's where they're coming from. Mainstream popular R&B and hip hop has been blended together since the mid 1980s and especially after New Jack Swing blew up.

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Reply #32 posted 09/05/17 7:38pm

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I am a huge fan of Chante,but I think I'm just gonna continue to listen to and enjoy her first two albums music those albums are incredible.I have a hard time getting into "today's R&B",especially when it has a lot of hip-hop elements in it.
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Reply #33 posted 09/05/17 8:22pm

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SoulAlive said:

I am a huge fan of Chante,but I think I'm just gonna continue to listen to and enjoy her first two albums music those albums are incredible.I have a hard time getting into "today's R&B",especially when it has a lot of hip-hop elements in it.

Well you can always listen to southern soul like the acts on Malaco Records or Denise LaSalle & Bobby Rush, it doesn't change that much. lol Since I listen to hip hop, I can dig Chanté's new stuff. Anyway, she has released hip hop remixes since the beginning


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Reply #34 posted 09/05/17 11:23pm

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MickyDolenz said:

kitbradley said:

Shame that Bruno Mars is probably the only male singer I can think of who is releasing more traditional sounding R&B music that actually charts.

Why exactly is popular 2017 R&B supposed to sound like something from 20 or 30 years ago? Did Teddy Pendergrass, Midnight Star, and Luther Vandross sound like R&B from the 1940s & 1950s? No they didn't. Sounds change. Top 40 radio has always pretty much been geared towards a younger audience. They're the ones who were more likely to buy records especially singles or in todays case watch Youtube videos or stream. Millenials haven't lived in a world where hip hop has not existed, so that's where they're coming from. Mainstream popular R&B and hip hop has been blended together since the mid 1980s and especially after New Jack Swing blew up.

No one expects 2017 R&B to sound like it exactly like it did in 1984. Just expect an artist like Ledisi and Chante Moore to stay in their lane and they can do that and modernize their sound without trying to blend their style with trap music. Erica Campbell took some heat from not just the gospel community but secular music fans as well for trying to blend gospel with trap music. Ledisi and Chante Moore are far from trap music and hip hop. I've never been much of a Freddie Jackson fan but he's always remained true to his R&B roots as far as I know even latter day albums when he wasn't a staple on radio no longer. Maxwell has never strayed from who he is as an artist and r&b fans respect him for it. Some artists can pull it off and try experimenting with different sounds without losing themselves but it just doesn't work for Chante. Those early Chante remixes you've posted I never heard of them until now. Thank God. lol

And it's not necessarily the artist themselves that's pushing the agenda of getting a hip hop

artist or style on the record it's more often than not the label.

I remember when Indie Arie recorded her single for I'm Not My Hair she recorded her version

for radio then the label basically forced her to do a mix of it with Akon an artist whom she admitted she wasn't into.

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Reply #35 posted 09/06/17 12:05am

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SoulAlive said:

phunkdaddy said:

missfee said: Seems like that shit has extended to Ledisi too. lol

really? Is she doing this type of music too? confused

Her latest single

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Reply #36 posted 09/06/17 12:08am

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^^People on this site can't make up their minds. If a veteran act does hip hop, house, or EDM, they don't like it. If they do Mel Waiters style songs (aka "grown folks music") like the Bar-Kays & Con Funk Shun have done on their recent stuff, they don't like it. Same if they release Rod Stewart style remake albums or if they do urban contemporary/adult R&B like Charlie Wilson. If Lionel Richie does country, they don't like it. I guess old acts just can't win. lol I've also seen people put down newer acts like Vintage Trouble, Robin Thicke, and Bruno Mars who have made retro sounding music saying they're "ripping off" some old act and can't get their own sound.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #37 posted 09/06/17 12:15am

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Erica Campbell took some heat from not just the gospel community but secular music fans as well for trying to blend gospel with trap music.

What's new about that? The gospel crowd complained about Andrae Crouch, The Clark Sisters, The Winans, Mighty Clouds Of Joy, BeBe & CeCe Winans, etc about thier sound. They complained about gospel singers like Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, & Amy Grant leaving gospel to do secular music or the "Devil's music". It was vice versa for Little Richard & Al Green who abandoned secular music at the height of their success to become preachers and release gospel records. Jazz purists said that George Benson sold out to do pop records, same when Miles Davis did fusion in the 1970s.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #38 posted 09/06/17 1:17am

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I just wish that R&B artists would record "real" R&B albums,you know? smile with some real instruments,NO trap beats and other hip hop elements!! Just a pure,genuinely soulful R&B album...what a concept,huh? smile As someone pointed out....these old school artists try all of these "new" sounds to appeal to a younger audience,but the young kids and teens ain't paying attention to them anyway,lol.It's a wasted effort.

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Reply #39 posted 09/06/17 1:30am

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MickyDolenz said:

SoulAlive said:

I am a huge fan of Chante,but I think I'm just gonna continue to listen to and enjoy her first two albums music those albums are incredible.I have a hard time getting into "today's R&B",especially when it has a lot of hip-hop elements in it.

Well you can always listen to southern soul like the acts on Malaco Records or Denise LaSalle & Bobby Rush, it doesn't change that much. lol Since I listen to hip hop, I can dig Chanté's new stuff. Anyway, she has released hip hop remixes since the beginning


This is the result of record companies trying to increase sales and expose her to a younger audience smile I'm OK with that,as long as the actual album is soulful and classy (which her first two albums certainly were).

I remember when Frankie Beverly was pissed at his record company when they released a 'best of' CD featuring a hip-hop remix of one of the songs (I think it was "Before I Let Go"?).He did NOT approve of it at all,lol.Record companies are sneaky like this.They only care about profits.

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Reply #40 posted 09/06/17 1:35am

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yeah I remember this smile She actually demanded that her record company (Motown) remove the remix from all future pressings of the album.She was no fan of Akon,lol.

phunkdaddy said:

I remember when Indie Arie recorded her single for I'm Not My Hair she recorded her version

for radio then the label basically forced her to do a mix of it with Akon an artist whom she admitted she wasn't into.

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Reply #41 posted 09/06/17 9:29am

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SoulAlive said:

I just wish that R&B artists would record "real" R&B albums,you know? smile with some real instruments,NO trap beats and other hip hop elements!! Just a pure,genuinely soulful R&B album...what a concept,huh? smile As someone pointed out....these old school artists try all of these "new" sounds to appeal to a younger audience,but the young kids and teens ain't paying attention to them anyway,lol.It's a wasted effort.

Like Prince said about people telling him they want him to do his old sound, they can listen to those old records. lol Some people are still complaining about Mariah Carey doing songs with rappers, when she has said she listened to hip hop and her early albums were more what Tommy Mattola wanted, than what she was about. Mariah said the label didn't want her to do the song with ODB, she asked him to collaborate. Sade Adu also said she liked hip hop and that can be heard in Sade's later records. All of Michael Jackson's later albums had rappers on them. The album version of Chante's Love's Taken Over has a hip hop influenced beat. It's not a remix. That's probably why that's her most known song.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #42 posted 09/06/17 9:56am

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This song by New Edition went #1 in 2016 on Billboard's adult R&B chart. There's no hip hop sounds in it and NE is one of the first acts to combine R&B and rap.

When rap first came out, some R&B and pop acts did something with it like Stevie Wonder, Blondie, Millie Jackson, Johnny Guitar Watson, Wham!, Falco, Big Audio Dynamite, Teena Marie, Bohannon, Tom Tom Club, etc. Wham!'s first single was Wham Rap. Fatback Band is credited with releasing one of the first recorded rap songs with King Tim III. That wasn't because of any record label prodding because most hip hop was on small indie labels at the time and many radio stations did not play rap in the beginning. So that must be because the acts liked it and maybe wanted their fans to know about it. Kurtis Blow was signed to a major and he said Mercury didn't know how to promote him.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #43 posted 09/06/17 4:59pm

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MickyDolenz said:

^^People on this site can't make up their minds. If a veteran act does hip hop, house, or EDM, they don't like it. If they do Mel Waiters style songs (aka "grown folks music") like the Bar-Kays & Con Funk Shun have done on their recent stuff, they don't like it. Same if they release Rod Stewart style remake albums or if they do urban contemporary/adult R&B like Charlie Wilson. If Lionel Richie does country, they don't like it. I guess old acts just can't win. lol I've also seen people put down newer acts like Vintage Trouble, Robin Thicke, and Bruno Mars who have made retro sounding music saying they're "ripping off" some old act and can't get their own sound.



Actually you couldn't be anymore wrong. People actually do make up their minds when it comes to music. It's not rocket science to determine if one likes a song or artist. You can't speak for everyone on this site. I'm probably the biggest Barkays fan on the site. In fact a web search on the Barkays led me to this site years ago. I've listened to the band throughout the years change with the times but they rarely jumped way out there. I like their 2003 album The Real Thing in which they gave you there contemporary sound and a little homage to Stax where they got their start. They had guest appearances from Shirley Brown, J.Blackfoot, and Archie Love all blues artists and I dug the songs. I hated their later attempt at a Mark Moorison remake Return Of The Mack because quite frankly it was pure shit and beneath the veteran band. They bounced back with a smooth laid back single Grown Folks a couple years later that wasn't a favorite among some fans still but I dug it. Hell my wife didn't like it. She said give me Move Your Boogie Body and most fans would agree not just fans on this site. I didn't care for ConFunkshun's more recent alnum but the lead single was hot. I'm probably the only person on this board who liked Babyface bold approach on Face To Face over his earlier adult contemporary stuff. I like There She Goes a Neptunes produced tune far more than Whip Appeal or Soon As I Get Home From Work but that's just me and I'm not a Pharrell fan. When you go to see these classic artist perform not many fans are looking to hear new material, they are looking to hear the songs they know or something similar to that artists sound they know. I've never hated on Charlie as a solo act. It's just most of his recent solo stuff don't move me and I actually have his first two solo albums before he even signed with Jive. I've found a lot of his Gap Band stuff that isn't popular is better than his solo material imo. I have a copy of 2 of Robin Thicke cd's and I liked some of his material but he's seemed to peak and burn out. Bruno Mars is alright. I haven't bought any of his material but the latest single is cool. He can chill with the corny ass rapping though.
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