Big Doomy String Samples On RnB Records

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Listened to the Christina Milian ft Yng Jeezy single, and yes I like it, but the talk about Aaliyah and so on yesterday had me thinking back to '00/'01 and all the jittery/ravey/squelchy/odd background stuff that producers were putting into R'n'B then. Those production choices seemed to give access to a much wider emotional range - more vulnerability, swooniness, dread, joy, sass - than sticking another portentiously cinematic string riff on the back of your tune.

No?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Crunk'n'b doesn't seem to have the same impact as early-00s r&b though because it's hip hop production made for hip hop signifiers transplanted to r&b - whereas the production on turn-of-the-century Aaliyah and Kelis was made specifically for r&b, and it was r&b rather than hip hop which was the explicit driving force behind what Tim and the Neps were doing.

(Which is not to say that crunk'n'b is inferior in any way, obv)