Lately, I've been using Pandora as a music source instead of my iTunes. One day I noticed that alot of the music that I really liked was actually not R&B but Neo-Soul. I had never heard of the term before. So i did some research and found out that Neo-soul is actually a sub-genre of r&b. One of the main differences between neo-soul and r&b consumed on a mass level, is that neo-soul is very ethnocentric and the artists tend to be well informed on politics and world culture.
Neo-Soul was coined by Motown in the early 1990s in order to categorize the music of artists such as Maxwell and Erykah Badu. Eventhough some of the Neo-Soul artists have been very popular, most of the music is still considered underground because unlike most popular music, the lyrics have a deeper meaning and a purpose. I think it will be interesting to see the evolution of Neo-soul and see how the major recording labels handle this sub genre of music.
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