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Do you listen to much current pop?
When she began working on new material about a year ago, she found that the rhythm-driven songwriting of much current pop didn't appeal to her this time around.
If there's a modern equivalent, it's the superhumanly perfect vocals featured in so much current pop and rock thanks to Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction processor made by Antares Audio Technologies.
While most current R&B comes out of computers, for "BLACKsummers'night" Maxwell and Mr. David made an album that sounds like musicians playing together in a room: with a live drummer instead of a machine, with no effects on the horns and without the ubiquitous Auto-Tune that gives so much current pop its cold precision.
Perhaps that's because so much current pop looks back to what the Bee Gees were doing in the late 1970s.
The delicate result hardly feels like an attempt to appeal to listeners accustomed to the bludgeoning force of so much current pop.
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That fusion helped shape Britney Spears, Beyoncé, the Pussycat Dolls and much other current pop-R&B.
Even at its most impenetrable, the album leaves you in a state of charmed confusion: you frequently have no idea what's going to happen next – not exactly a sensation much current rock and pop evokes.
Todd Martens of Los Angeles Times wrote that although is hard to imagine the song to be played in a car or a club, it's "attention-grabbing stuff, standing in stark emphasis on stark contrast to much of the current pop landscape".
In that he shares much with any number of current pop stars — Miley Cyrus, Rick Ross or Katy Perry, whom Riff Raff accompanied to the MTV Video Music Awards last month wearing a replica of a denim suit famously worn by Justin Timberlake at the 2001 American Music Awards.
While reviewing Spears' demo of "Telephone", Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone compared it to "Piece of Me", "proving yet again how much impact Britney has had on the sonics of current pop.
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