I wish the $ha could just get top 10 already, it's been painful seeing her stuck at #11 first behind Iyaz and now Justin Bieber/Sean Kingston. :arrr:

Impressive re-climb by Eminem! It was funny, because I heard Eminem's song on Heart last week. Obviously, it was the Big Top 40 Show, but it was quite a strange experience. :lol: Heart just seems completely repulsed by playing anything with rapping in, so they end up just playing Alicia's version of Empire State of Mind and What About Now all day, which just gets completely tedious... More music variety? Yeah right... :rolleyes:

 

Anyway, rant over. I'm amazed by Ridin' Solo's staying power. I hope it gets #1 eventually. One of my favourite songs of this year, so far. :wub:

I wish Ke$ha could just get top 10 already, it's been painful seeing her stuck at #11 first behind Iyaz and now Justin Bieber/Sean Kingston. :arrr:

 

I know. :cry:

Edited June 5, 201015 yr by Tactical

I like Your Love is My Drug, but the end bit is total cringe! However, it's a very catchy song, and I welcome the absence of the wannabe 8-bit. :D

Soul & R&B are urban - Angie Stone, Erykah Badu, and Sade for example are the lovely type of urban. Most of the stuff in the top 10 bar Alicia is NOT.

While we're on this subject...why 'URBAN'??? why does this word (that in a simple definition means 'opposite to rural') have anything to do with most artists that seem to fall under it's umbrella?? :wacko:

While we're on this subject...why 'URBAN'??? why does this word (that in a simple definition means 'opposite to rural') have anything to do with most artists that seem to fall under it's umbrella?? :wacko:

 

'Urban music genres' means 'music genres popular in urban areas'. Hip hop and rap / R&B first got popular in big cities.

While we're on this subject...why 'URBAN'??? why does this word (that in a simple definition means 'opposite to rural') have anything to do with most artists that seem to fall under it's umbrella?? :wacko:

 

Maybe because the music generally originated in large cities? I don't know really.

 

EDIT: Wikipedia says this:

 

Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, and Caribbean music such as reggae, reggaeton and sometimes soca (In Toronto, London, New York City, Boston and Miami). Urban contemporary was developed through the characteristics of genres such as R&B and Soul[1]. Virtually all Urban contemporary formatted radio stations are located in cities that have sizeable African-American populations, such as Los Angeles, California, New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Charlotte, and Norfolk, Virginia, etc.

 

Edited June 5, 201015 yr by Eric_Blob

Ohhhh btw, a week on Monday, a new version of the Glee version of 'Don't Stop Believin'' will be available to download (unless it's made "album-only" etc...), and it's different to the first version that's already charted, but if you think we've heard the last of it... think again... Bray :kink:

Ohhhh btw, a week on Monday, a new version of the Glee version of 'Don't Stop Believin'' will be available to download (unless it's made "album-only" etc...), and it's different to the first version that's already charted, but if you think we've heard the last of it... think again... Bray :kink:

 

That sounds completely pointless :unsure: Might get it back into the top 40 I guess

 

...what do I have to do with this? ;o

Impressive re-climb by Eminem! It was funny, because I heard Eminem's song on Heart last week. Obviously, it was the Big Top 40 Show, but it was quite a strange experience. :lol: Heart just seems completely repulsed by playing anything with rapping in

 

Sounds like my kind of radio station... :P

That sounds completely pointless :unsure: Might get it back into the top 40 I guess

 

...what do I have to do with this? ;o

It's not pointless actually, if you watch the show :P

 

I know just how much you love the song, so I thought name dropping you would make you excited :)

It's not pointless actually, if you watch the show :P

 

I know just how much you love the song, so I thought name dropping you would make you excited :)

 

I like the Glee version of DSB :P It's only the original I hate

He was on Jonathon Ross last night

 

That's amazing - I'd have thought that rap would be the *last* thing that JR's audience would go for...

Its good that the debate about urban music on here has been conducted intelligently.Some bloody idiot on DS is claiming that there has been an overkill of black singers and groups and its time for a change of course they claim they are not racist..

 

At least that's an accusation *I* can avoid. I like pure R&B by singers like Rihanna, Beyonce, Kelis, etc - plus I like Michael Jackson's pre-mid-80's stuff.

 

Sounds like my kind of radio station... :P

 

Yeah, you'd probably like it. :lol:

 

You can see the most played songs here: http://comparemyradio.com/stations/Heart_West_Midlands It's not 100% accurate, but it's the general gist of what they tend to play.

Soul & R&B are urban - Angie Stone, Erykah Badu, and Sade for example are the lovely type of urban. Most of the stuff in the top 10 bar Alicia is NOT.

 

We'll just have to agree to differ on that then - IMO the only song in the current top 13 that *isn't* urban, is Edward Maya's 'Stereo Love'.

We'll just have to agree to differ on that then - IMO the only song in the current top 13 that *isn't* urban, is Edward Maya's 'Stereo Love'.

 

 

... but you're the one who classified 'On And On' by Agnes as R&B, so y'know... :wacko:

That's amazing - I'd have thought that rap would be the *last* thing that JR's audience would go for...

 

What are you talking about? He's had Jay-Z on TWICE! And Dizzee Rascal was just on a couple of weeks BEFORE!

 

Not to mention Eminem already performed there the year before.

Its good that the debate about urban music on here has been conducted intelligently.Some bloody idiot on DS is claiming that there has been an overkill of black singers and groups and its time for a change of course they claim they are not racist.That type of thing makes me fume at least people have pointed out that the origin of many forms of music is from black artists.

Intruth I think MJ can rightfully be called the late King Of Pop. His music may have covered different genres but it was essentially pop.Although I think Rap, reggae, grime are definately Urban for want of a better word Soul and RnB are definately not.

 

There are a few on DS who are just plain ignorant and insensitive. The majority are quite intelligent though. :P

 

Yeah i'm aware MJ is classed as Pop and, generally speaking, his music is pop but it's such a ridiculous genre. Can anyone actually identify what 'pop' is in musical terms?

 

Rap and grime are indeed definitely 'urban' but Reggae isn't. As I told Bray yesterday(?), Bob Marley is Reggae but he's not urban. Sean Paul, however, is a fusion of Hip Hop and Reggae. Reggae originated from the carribean so I don't know how it could be classed as urban.

 

And for the record, I really do think 'pop' 'dance' and 'urban' are stupid terms. There are umbrella genres and there are plain random genres. I think pop used to mean music dominated by synths. Might be wrong though.

 

Soul & R&B are urban - Angie Stone, Erykah Badu, and Sade for example are the lovely type of urban. Most of the stuff in the top 10 bar Alicia is NOT.

 

Soul isn't urban at all. Modern R&B (which isn't really R&B) is urban. It's closely linked to Hip-Hop which obviously is. Early R&B though (Motown etc) is not urban at all.

 

I know this might make me look ignorant, but the truth is urban music is basically the music produced by pikeys, chavs, wangsters etc. I mean just look at the urban dictionary. If you just link it with other urban things, you'd realise it's not a particularly pleasant genre. :lol:

We'll just have to agree to differ on that then - IMO the only song in the current top 13 that *isn't* urban, is Edward Maya's 'Stereo Love'.

 

You totally misunderstood me yet again - I said most of the urban stuff in the top 10 is not to my tastes at all bar Alicia. :blink: