Talk:New jack swing
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[edit] Cleanup required
Artists have been added under "List of new jack swing artists", but some of them don't point to the correct artist (example: the link to Finest Hour is an article about an arcade game). Please provide the correct links for these artists. Thanks. | QzDaddy 17:52, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia does not have a Wikipedia page called Articles for deletion/New Jack Reunion Tour user:Krystal Cooper
[edit] self-referential
This sentence "Swing refers to the rhythmic pattern, which always consists of straight 8ths, 16th note shuffles and 16th note swing patterns." seems circular. If "swing" refers to a rhythmic pattern, one of the elements of that pattern should not be "swing patterns". And how is "shuffle" defined here? or is that a synonym for "swing"? I'm not a musician per se, but my understanding is that "swing patterns" can occur in any note increments, and that "swing" simply notes that the repetition occurs at different time intervals rather than at the same intervals. Is this correct? --csloat 10:17, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- Ahhh... this helps explain it.--csloat 10:18, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were two years before Teddy Riley, doing the New Jack Swing, with Janet Jackson's Control album (the single Nasty was released in late 1985).
- Nasty was released in 1986 a few months before the album. Around the same time, Teddy Riley was part of the group Guy, which was the first of many New Jack Swing groups. Essentially, Riley and Jam/Lewis created similar sounds, but Jam/Lewis were influenced more by their former band(Morris Day and The Time), and Riley was more influenced by hip-hop. The sounds are fairly similar, though. ThePacMan 16:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Plus Teddy used a swing rhythm, and J&L didn't; so "Control" is technically not New Jack Swing Nathan86
[edit] Artist List
I'm removing Aaliyah and Kylie Minogue from this list. Aaliyah's sound has NEVER been classifiable as New Jack Swing. Her album was actually part of R&B's movement away from New Jack Swing. As for Kylie Minogue...she pretty much does only euro/electronic dance-pop. Nothing New Jack about her. I'm also removing Joey Lawrence as that is simply laughable. Whoever added him to the list does not know the definition of "New Jack Swing". ThePacMan 15:54, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- completely agree....I just removed them myself because some fool went and put them back.
- I also have a problem with some of the other artists listed here:
- Brandy, Monica, Usher, Xscape - IMO Hip Hop Soul, not NJS (I've removed them)
- Soul II Soul, Lisa Stansfield - Not NJS IMO
- Oh, and I see someone's added Mariah Carey--- having ONE NJS-styled song ("Someday") does not make you a New Jack Swing artist IMO....... Nathan86
