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21/09/2006 Black pop music - then and now
This week’s MOBO (Music Of Black Origin) awards attracted a lot of media interest, but the music's of limited interest here – 95% of pop music is of no interest to grown-ups, whether it’s by black-, pink- or yellow-skinned musicians. There’s a tendency among (white, middle-aged, liberal) columnists to decry contemporary black pop, and compare it unfavourably to the good old days of 1960s soul. They’re just showing their age – with a few exceptions (Ray Charles, Otis Redding… not many more), rock-era soul was mindless pap, just like its white equivalents. Heart-on-sleeve, overly dramatic wailing, whether by Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder or Nina Simone, was as unpalatable forty years ago as the warblings of their descendants is today.
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