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"You listen to R&B?!" is the response I get from people when I list the types of music I lsten to. You see, apparently, several years ago, someone sent out a memo to the entire world that R&B no longer stands for rhythm and blues. Rather, R&B is just R&B. The R&B of today completely lacks the rhythm and has very little of the blues found in the R&B bands of the 1950's and 1960's. Groups like The Yardbirds and The Rolling Stones. Artists like Charles Mingus and Jerry Lee Lewis. To you R&B'ers of today, please find another two letters to entitle your genre that hasn't been used for over fifty years by someone else.
Indie music is another thing that drives me batty. I was told today that Radiohead was fucking indie. Excuse me, but when every single Radiohead album is put out by a RIAA label, you're not indie. CD Baby knows indie. Indie cannot be a genre, indie means you haven't sold out. Selling out doesn't change how your music sounds, it just makes you a sell out.