Timmy84 said:

MajesticOne89 said:

at this thread. Well I knew it wa a bit of stretch, but worth a shot. I guess I'll have to do something like "the evolution of the blues" or something.

Or the evolution of Madonna's gorgeous tits.

Is it a problem that with the shrug emotion I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not?

MajesticOne89 said:

Timmy84 said:

Or the evolution of Madonna's gorgeous tits.

Is it a problem that with the shrug emotion I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not?

Yeah because I was definitely joking.

Though in her prime, Madonna's tits were supreme.

It isn't so much of "who" stunted the growth of mainstream pop music as much as "what" stunted the growth.

1. The practice of sampling other people's music.

Sampling musical notes off of vinyl records, CDs, & cassettes had given many people (especially hip-hop/rap beatmakers) the excuse to NEVER learn to play and mastered a real instrument. Even those that play on keyboard workstations treat those instruments more like a drum machine than a keyboard because they have limited knowledge of chords & scales. Naturally, using a drum sampling sequencer like any of the Akai MPC series are infamous for hiding those weaknesses so to speak.

2. The practice of keeping the music tempo within the downtempo range of 95 BPM (beats per minute) on average.

Until Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, & The (Fergie-era) Black Eyed Peas came along to speed the music up again, mainstream pop music had wasted 16 years (1994-2009) in keeping things on 95 BPM.

In 1992, Dr. Dre used this idea (which he copied from The Meters) of maintaining the tempo of 95 BPM when produced The Chronic album and it was consider a groundbreaking moment for hip-hop/rap. But then Sean Combs would copied the idea from Dr. Dre and use it to produce Mary J. Blige's What's The 411? album, at the expense of killing r&b/soul to create hip-hop/r&b, the same genre that other copycat producers would copied and help change the mainstream pop culture for the worst. Altervative rock & the gangsta style of rap would adapt easily while uptempo genres like house, techno, hip-house, latin freestyle, and club dance would all be removed from FM radio formats by 1995.

SIDENOTE: No one can blame Michael Jackson, Prince, OR Madonna for any of THESE^ problems that I've mention. Granted, all 3 have sampled a few times. But all 3 of these icons were uptempo most of the time and went the 95 BPM route on very few occasions on some tracks.

Oh Lord here we go.

MY DICK stunt its growth.

Or better yet the ORG stunted it as babybugz would wanna say lol.