Where is the love in R&B music ? - CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/02/showbiz/music/love-songs/index.html
Yet when I listen to R&B today, I ask myself the same question Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway posed in their classic 1972 duet: “Where is the Love?”
Listening to black music today is depressing. Songs on today’s urban radio playlists are drained of romance, tenderness and seduction. And it’s not just about the rise of hardcore hip-hop or rappers who denigrate women.
Black people gave the world Motown, Barry White and “Let’s Get It On.” But we don’t make love songs anymore.
Why?
I asked some of the stars who created the popular R&B classics of the late 1960s, ’70s and early ’80s. Their answer: The music changed because blacks lost something essential — something that all Americans, regardless of race, should regret.
“We had so much harmony”
Some of what we lost, they say, was an appreciation of love itself.
Je référence, hein : j’ai pas forcément d’opinion religieuse sur la question. À part que j’ai du mal, mitou, à trouver de l’amûûûr dans le R&B d’aujourd’hui.