reymiu Posted April 10, 2023 Posted April 10, 2023 Since I'm feeling very nostalgia of DIL era I remember buying this bootleg mixtape called Beyonce - Speak My Mind https://www.discogs.com/release/8624994-Beyoncé-Speak-My-Mind So many bops In Da Club remix (better than the original!) Keep Giving Your Love Wishing on a Star Fever Summertime That's how you like it She should put this on streaming and it's going to go viral !
CaptainMusic Posted April 10, 2023 Posted April 10, 2023 On 4/9/2023 at 3:33 PM, PrudenceHCharmed said: I'm not sure though, but it seems like R&B artists rarely make it big outside of the US. Only a handful of those that make it big such as Alicia, Janet, Mary, Tina, Mariah and Whitney. @ Tina and Whitney (outside of MLIYL) being R&B. 20 hours ago, Soda Pop Queen said: I'm not sure because I don't live there but I think this has more to do with the fact that the UK has its own R&B scenes where they support their own, especially in London, rather than them not embracing R&B in total. Other places like Canada also has their R&B scene. Notice whenever we get R&B artists imported they're always either from somewhere in the UK (Ella Mai, Craig David, Estelle, FLO, etc.) or Canada (Daniel Caesar, Deborah Cox, Tamia, et al.) I think France has a R&B scene too but obviously the language barrier stops them from being big outside of France. UK definitely likes R&B though. We have our own scene but R&B never had a problem being successful here until about 2011 and then it came back a few years later. Even local artists like Brandy and Monica have had success here. DC were very popular so it’s not surprising at all that Beyoncé’s debut was a smash as well, her songs are more R&B Pop than straight up R&B anyway.
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