Nice post,thank u,well which funk artists did njs but didnt embarass themself like Ready 4 The World who were terrible in njs era Artists could have a harder beat, something more rhythmic, yet still lay out some silky vocals and production over that. I don't know what specific funk artists you'd wanna name, but I think R&B was its own thing and rap was its own thing, but NJS sorta fused the two together. Hell, it outlasted Jon Secada and Hootie & The Blowfish for fuck's sake, and you couldn't shake those fuckers to save your life for a long while. Duets aren't bad, but they had a fad moment around that time.
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Or longer than the boy/girl groups of the late 80s, like Will To Power, Roxette, or Boy Meets Girl (who happend to write two huge hits for Whitney, btw) a duet like "I've Had The Time of My Life " Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force or "where every song was dependent on a duet. Even boy bands and pop princess wannabes hung around longer than something like a Ric Wake production in the late 80s that large reverby echoey sound that gave Taylor Dayne, Kathy Triccoli, Whitney, Mariah, Celine, and Anastacia hit songs. There's an ebb and flow to music, some things rise to the top while others tread the waters, and some flat out sink. What was the next big thing? What was the next trend in music? The problem is that artists didn't really know where to go after that. Anyone who knew a flip about music could see that much. The problem isn't that NJS killed anything. Then you fast forward to a couple of years ago and Bruno Mars is putting out NJS music. RN1814 solidified any experiments on Control. NJS worked so well on that record, peppered here and there, but not dependent on it.Īlso, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 really incorporated R&B & NJS, almost putting Control in the category of "what happens if we put this with that?" a la a blueprint. MJ was purposely trying to shake up his sound like he never had before.Įven Madonna dipped her toes in it with stuff like "Bye Bye Baby," "Fever," and "Erotica," all from a record arguably rougher in aural textures and aesthetic than anything she'd done before. Listen to the demo of "Dangerous," and compare it to the album version. It was just very non-Michael Jackson at that point, when he could've easily went down a typical road of schmaltzy R&B. Dangerous, for me, is one of MJ's best albums. Everyone from Paula Abdul ("Straight Up"), Bell Biv Devoe, and Michael Jackson used NJS in their songs. Sure, Johnny Gill, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Jade, TLC, and Jane Child on people's radars (although some may have been out there before a bit). It also put folks like Soul II Soul, Kid n' Play, Keith Sweat, Johnny Kemp, Whitney Houston, Club Nouveau, Troop, Al B. However, a lot of Control has NJS influences on it moreover it became an influence for folks like Teddy Riley. But if you go back a bit, Jam & Lewis wrote "Nasty," probably the first NJS song. It made a household name of people like Bobby Brown. I think NJS worked well for so many artists.
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