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[Cynthia]

If you read her entry on Wikipedia you can see that "R&B" is listed on her musical style. For me, Amy's Musical Style contains Jazz, Blues, Ska, Soul, Reggae & some other smaller sub-genres.
Do you agree with them? I don't know which songs they mean with "R&B". That's weird for me...

[Amysanchorcat]

Stronger than me, In my bed, fitted the R&B genre i think, she was multi genre'd x

[africanfusion]

Yep, i agree some of her music can be classified as R&B.

[SteveV]

If you read her entry on Wikipedia you can see that "R&B" is listed on her musical style. For me, Amy's Musical Style contains Jazz, Blues, Ska, Soul, Reggae & some other smaller sub-genres.
Do you agree with them? I don't know which songs they mean with "R&B". That's weird for me...

I looked up a list of artists under the heading "R&B"

http://en.wikipedia....f_R&B_musicians

As you can see, it's a pretty long list (including Amy under W) that seems to encompass a variety of styles from Eminem to Usher. I don't know what exactly links them together. Amy herself is hard to classify. She does many styles as you say.She has also blended styles in a unique way that really sets her apart. She is a "soul" singer, I think, because of her lyrics and her intense and passionate delivery whether she's doing more retro songs or more "pop" songs like "Rehab". Rehab is heavily syncopated which is reminiscent of a lot of the old style R&B. I don't think she is a soul singer in the sense of Aretha Franklin who is known as the "Queen of Soul".

[ohmr]

I would say that for the most part, her music was R&B/Soul. Even Frank.

[Amysanchorcat]

I would say that for the most part, her music was R&B/Soul. Even Frank.

Deffo x

[ChipsAndPitta]

Yep, certainly R&B sounds going on, the production from Salaam would have aided that.

[Amysanchorcat]

Our Blue (Green) eyes soul/jazz Queen x

[ladyamy]

She sang pure soul and jazz.

[Amysanchorcat]

In my day, R&B was called New jack swing, Amy mentioned this, a bit back. x

[africanfusion]

All these different genres -jazz, soul, blues, R&B, funk, doo-wop etc- are all branches from the same tree anyway.

[Nasha]

Yes, I definitely think a song like In My Bed could fit into the (modern) R&B category. But yes, she was multi-genre'd, multi-influenced. And like Africanfusion said, all the genres that influenced her are (intertwined) branches of the same tree (I like the metaphor, Africanfusion).and there are probably several of these branches in each of her songs.

[ohmr]

What happened to Neo Soul? Does it still exist?

[D-Bomb]

What happened to Neo Soul? Does it still exist?

I'd argue it exist but no one pays attention to it. I think it was Erykah Badu and some other people in the late 90s who brought it to the forefront and its kinda fallen off.

[ancre]

Oh, they should create new musical genre "Amystyle"... Seriously.