@nonchalantly_ and that what made that age romantic, for them, was its nostalgia for/recapitulation of greco-roman ideals, particularly of beauty, lyric, and drama.
wasn’t goin to drop this yet but we’re having too much fun! thought we’d keep the party goin 🤭🧑🏾🩰
something new for you tonight — 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚔 out @ midnight locally
can’t agree on any of these adj.s when I look at r+b albums released in the late 2000s:
Maxwell’s Blacksummers (2009), Chrisette Michelle’s Epiphany (2009), Tr*y S*ngz’s Ready (2009), The Weekend Trilogy (2012), Miguel’s All I Want is You (2010) and Kaleidoscope Dream (2012).
@jatella@keiyaa_ Replace passé with generic, boring, co-opted or over saturated and I think we’ll all be on the same page lol. Semantics aside I appreciate that y’all are at lease engaging me in good faith.
I also don’t mind clarifying because we only have so many characters to work with.
@keiyaa_@blackhippyblevz yeah I agree w/ keiyaa here on correlation-causation. I think there’s a reactionary picture being imagined in the move to alt r+b that doesn’t wash, historically speaking.
r+b didn’t so much become passé as it became postmodern—which of course has its own faults but still.