In a recent declaration singer Jazmine Sullivan announced via Twitter that she will be taking time off of music. The announcement took the world by storm leading everyone to believe the songstress is quitting music. However she later said she's just switching things up until she get it right. This made me pay more attention to her and why she would be doing such a thing and my theory is....
She's being told to dumb down.Despite her success and accolades she is in a business that lately hasn't been about what the definition applies to. If it were probably 20 years ago Jazmine would probably be equivalent to what Rihanna is today. (sidenote: this isn't one of those 'oh the 90s where the best' things those hipster children always complain about even tho they themselves hardly knew shit about it). Because around the late 80's early 90s most singers, especially female were profiting from their talent not just their looks or who they're sleeping with. Because then we had singers like En Vogue, Mariah, Whitney, Mary, Browstone and SWV in their prime all beautiful women, all extraordinarily talented and all successful (at some point), and Jazmine would have fit right in perfectly.
However Ms. Sullivan has arrived in a bleak future of talentless, copy-paste, half naked drones.Whom (barely) sing the same song, dance to the same beat, the quality of their music is either "I'm a slutty girl who likes to experiment with girls and shave my hair" or "I'm a slutty girl be like me and all the boys would love you". Jazmine is none of the above she sings her own songs, which lack the constant need for pitch correction and have more lyrical validation than your generic pop tune, and as far as her aesthetic she's the girl next door the real one not the perfect figured girl that looks so manufactured you'll get silicone poisoning from. Jazmine isn't a size 2, she isn't a blonde nor is her skin as pale as baby powder. Jazmine is the real deal and the industry heads are not finding her appealing (think Jennifer Hudson's transformation).
The fault of this isn't to blame of Jazmine but you, the same 17 year old kid complaining about how the 90's need to comeback, you know the same 17 year old who's screaming "Black & Yellow" or "We are who we are" instead of giving talented artist like Jazmine a chance, you're programmed to think that 98% of the crap you hear out on the radio is the best there is when, the industry finally gives you talented singers reminiscent of those days you long for but truly never knew anything about, you cry things like "Oh she's boring". This article isn't about Jazmine Sullivan she's just an example this article is about the consumers (aged 10-19 years old). Who are excessively dancing and buying into the bull you're told is real and not trying to discover the true talent that is out there whether it be on the net, other genres or going through your parents collection. I know for damn sure Jazmine, 23 has a huge fanbase aged 21+. Before you spat things like missing a decade you hardly knew ( hell I'm 21 born 1989 and remember a lot but still couldn't give you a play by play), or quick to worship a talentless skank slut singer, open your ears and research these things before you go on and annoy everyone with the crappy shit you kids call music.
and on that note . . .