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...Monét’s music takes cues from the golden age of 1990s and early-’00s R&B as well as ’70s disco classics, but she has a personal touch too, adding elements of Deep-South hip-hop and west-coast soul....
...When their idol took the stage, the screams that greeted her would do justice to the word hysteria, yet what followed was not an evening of Taylor Swift pop or Ariana Grande R&B, but a set of bossa novas...
...There’s quite a lot of feathery pop-soul and R&B, nice enough but too airy to leave an impression....
...“I think a lot of it was still playing on traditional tropes, but Nirvana really broke that mould with their fusion of grating sound with melody and big fat baselines that you could jump around and dance...
...In February, she wore a Burberry trenchcoat to the Brit Awards with “Long Live R&B” emblazoned on its back. The message was prompted by the lack of UK R&B artists among the nominees....
...The songs’ subject matter isn’t sophisticated, full of raunchy double entendres, but musically things are more interesting: a pan-Latin pop blitz, including reggaeton, R&B and trap, with an occasional dash...
...Born and partly raised in the US, Amaarae adopts the breathy come-hithers of a sultry R&B vocalist on “Princess Going Digital”....
...The character’s simple, instantly recognisable features and bow have remained unchanged over the decades as she developed into a billion-dollar franchise (analysed in Christine R Yano’s 2013 book Pink Globalization...
...The breathy shimmy of “Good At Breaking Hearts” is enriched by the gorgeous vocals of UK R&B talent JNR Williams....
...An irresistible melody entwines around a sinewy set of rhythms....
...And so that’s when I started thinking I could write, like I really think of a ribbon, like a winding melody, simple melody played on the harp that could really fit in to a song....
...It’s sort of was like a Lana Del Rey feeling, a kind of R&B feeling song. I really thought it was good. And I think she’s really, like, perennially good....
...And that’s girl spelt with a triple R, which is a kind of feminist offshoot of punk, which really harnessed, sort of DIY ethos, very polemical, but just also really gutsy and funny and punchy lyrics, raw...
...But jazz never stands still, and fiery solos infused with the new funky rhythms of R&B were not only popular at the time but helped the music evolve....
...Price’s gift for crafting epic melodies and retro glamour is evident again here....
...At a dinner soon after, Jones impishly starts provoking Don by humming Wynette’s recent hit song “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”....
...It led to his studying music formally under Modernist composers such as Darius Milhaud, who encouraged him to trust his instinct for melody....
...The first fades in with a confident stride of walking double bass, the second fades out with sultry, Fender Rhodes-infused R&B; Pelt, back on track, delivers fresh melodies and modernist panache on both....
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
...The Western-themed “Old Town Road” was accessorised by a life-size puppet horse and the ingenious interpolation of Ginuwine’s hit song “Pony”, a classic of 1990s R&B....
...By then, he had already spent several years as guitarist in R&B group The Internet, an offshoot from LA rap collective Odd Future....
...His generosity in thinking about other people’s songs has a doubled-edge quality, in that he has often been accused of making off with melodies and phrases for his own use....
...Renaissance adds dance music to her usual palette of R&B, soul, pop and hip-hop. It is the first of a trilogy recorded during the pandemic....
...Melodies got a rippling response, double bassist Dezron Douglas underpinned with a riff and rimshots came at angles while cymbals hissed....
...The second song is Etta James’ ‘A Sunday Kind of Love’, foundational R&B. So I’ll pull it up....
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