tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26803842.post886368529515956837..comments2023-09-12T10:28:00.525-04:00Comments on mincetapes: so, soul...K. Ross Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07153047422374716535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26803842.post-24603161401443654982007-03-22T22:30:00.000-04:002007-03-22T22:30:00.000-04:00hi frank. thanks - actually i did have a better u...hi frank. thanks - actually i did have a better understanding of the term than i was pretending to (i like be mildly sarcastic in undetectable ways.)<BR/><BR/>do people really not know pop and hip-hop when they hear them? do people say that pop and hip-hop that they don't like are not really worthy of being called those things? (i know, maybe they'll say something' "not hip-hop" - kinda like "not cricket" - but that doesn't actually mean they think it's not hip-hop, right?)<BR/><BR/>funny, to me neo-soul very specifically suggests the late-90s movement (which definitely <I>was</I> a movement) including d'angelo, jill scott, erykah, et al. (and although i like plenty of that stuff, i definitely wouldn't call it soul without the qualifier.) and i would call new bettye and probably new burke (though some of it's almost country) and definitely sharon jones Soul. which is to say soul isn't completely dead (even though it mostly is.)<BR/><BR/>i wouldn't call blige or gnarls soul, but because i actually hear them as different genres, not because they're not up to snuff in some less tangible way. if that makes sense - so maybe that's a distinction that makes soul seem less superwordy. (although apparently some people would call these things soul?)<BR/><BR/>seems like soul is starting to become more of a superword than it maybe ever was before; with this new vanguard questionably "resurrecting" it, there's gonna have to be a skirmish for the banner.K. Ross Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07153047422374716535noreply@blogger.com