Why aren't R&B clubs all that popular?

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December 27, 2013 at 9:38 pm #1022504

Raggy
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I miss the time when there were more Hip Hop/RnB nights in local clubs but there is less and less of it nowadays. Kinda sad cause i love this kind of music and had a lot of fun in the clubs during those nights.

Seems we’re now in the EDM era with loud beats and people awaiting for the epic “drop” of the songs in the club. The new generation will grow up with the new mainstream EDM stuff and less with Hip Hop and RnB like the generation before.

I’m not a music sociologist but that’s my vision of it.

January 3, 2014 at 12:53 pm #1023487

DJ Soulphinger
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Yes , I agree with you both. The music is changing. Peoples thinking is changing. I love R&B , I was in Chicago and seen how they step with R&B but it’s dying..and it burns Me up. One way I been keeping it alive is making podcast and my own online radio shows for the people that do like it. You be suprised that a lot in other European countries do like R&B, so I end up catering to them on my podcast. And I also love soulful house;-)

DJ Soulphinger

January 3, 2014 at 5:02 pm #1023514

Showbiz Connor
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I play R&B and hip hop and there is plenty of work for me but it is generally bars and chill out/2nd rooms in clubs that I get to play. 
 
One of the resons I don’t think its as popular is that the whole urban scene has gone up its own arse a bit, the music isn’t as bouncy has more of a trap type of sound that simply isn’t party music. 
 
People wanna lose their minds to nellys “Hot in Herre” or Fatmans scoops “Be Faithful” not sway around to whatever low tempo shit that Drake is putting out. 
 
I try an play upfront party jams with that classic late 90’s to mid 2000’s Neptune/Dre/Scott storch sound. 

January 6, 2014 at 5:26 pm #1024053

Alex Moschopoulos
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Give it time. I’m already seeing tempos slowing on most pop music.

Wouldn’t be surprised if we hear more rap and R&B mixed with pop permeate the playlists this summer…and then in 2015 EDM will be very passe to crowds and thus they’ll request slower music.

January 6, 2014 at 6:41 pm #1024067

gbadegesin
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Personally, i think RnB is already a dying breed, for it to resurface, it will have to be repackaged under a different name and also come back with a different feel.

A bit like the way funk > New Jack swing> Soul>RnB……

The moment we stopped having the slow dances in the clubs, that was a signal that things were changing. Few people really noticed it untill the EDM rave hit us in our faces.

For me, i have sort of turned it into my advantage. I play RnB/Soul/HipHop old school. I am already building quite a following and that is cos people miss that era. I do some warm up nights from time to time as well. I also have a radio show that features the old school era. People have now asked me to take it to streets. So one of my projects this year is to try and do a night maybe quaterly or monthly…. Hope it works out..

January 6, 2014 at 8:15 pm #1024081

Alex Moschopoulos
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I wholeheartedly agree.

However, I’m sure no matter what it’s “repackaged” as, it’ll just end up as “pop”. I still remember when many clubs were playing loads of rap and R&B between 2002 and 2007. Most of the time it was just any pop artist who did music in the “rap music tempo”. You couldn’t really play “rap”, because it was deemed as “too black”. Same happened with most R&B. If it wasn’t some poppy Beyonce or Nelly Furtado tune, the crowd deemed it “too black”. Funniest were girls requesting “hip-hop”, then naming BRITNEY SPEARS as an example. *facepalm*

I’m sure the next wave will sound different from the old, but it’ll be the next music to get watered down and dominate radio and the trendy clubs.

January 7, 2014 at 9:52 am #1024180

Terry_42
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Love those requests… when you get “play some hard rock, like Robby Williams” or “we want some good hip-hop like Linkin Park”….
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