Tank opened up about what he feels about the direction R&B is heading…and according to him, it’s not looking too good. It’s no secret what’s considered R&B has drastically changed in the last 10 years or so. The “Please Don’t Go” singer told “Black Hollywood Live: The Beat“:
Name the last time you actually heard an R&B ballad or even mid-tempo played on mainstream radio. You won’t. It’s not exciting enough to them anymore. We’ve moved out of the age of romance and meeting the mom and the father before you take the girl out. Now it’s Twitter and Instagram and everything’s happening so fast that a ballad actually takes too long for the payoff.
So, people actually really singing is too much to think about. Like, ‘I can’t sing along with that. Where’s the guy with the Auto-Tune? I can do that.’ And people are so far into the state of reality and being able to feel like they’re apart of it that it’s actually them, that if it’s too far above their heads, then they can’t relate.
While briefly shaded the auto-tune trend, he did credit guys who have taken over R&B like Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke.
Find out what he said to say about them in the video below:
