Tim Jonze On Shuffle … R&B

Stolen by hipsters, ruined by the charts – so where's all the real R&B at?It's hard not to look at R&B right now without wondering if it's in the middle of some huge identity crisis. Approach from one direction and you'll find producers trying to answer the question: what would Tricky sound like if he just smoked a teensy bit more weed? Venture in from another and you'll come across megastars hellbent on sounding as much like Scooter as humanly possible. It's disorienting: on the one hand you ...

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