Research blog

 For our music video, my group decided to do a song called “Just The Two of Us” by Grover Washington Jr. and Bill Withers. As this song falls under the R&B genre, the targeted audience, at least in the modern age, is African-Americans (due to the history of R&B with that community), as well as the younger people of the world, mostly adolescents to young adults.

- R&B music videos typically attempt to catch the audience sense of attraction.

- Older R&B music videos showed men as sophisticated and charming, wearing suits, which attracted to the female audience.

- Modern R&B music videos show men as attractive and strong. Most men in modern R&B are tattooed and shirtless, attracting most younger women and showing themselves as strong and wealthy.

- The artists in modern R&B also have outfits which include, but aren’t limited to: no shirt, or some plain shirt, a strapped back hat, and some sort of dark pants. This gives the look of a stereotypical “person of color” outfit.

- Fast R&B has colors and is fast paced in order to represent emotion.

- Love R&B is slower paced than Fast R&B but is still fast and the people within the music video seem happy and upbeat.

- Slow R&B is slow paced in order to express the most emotion possible to the listener.

- R&B includes a lot of dancing, typically portraying the emotion that the song is trying to give off.

R&B music is just generally about projection emotion and feeling to the listener, which allows for songs to be twisted into connecting with the listener, rather than only being another song to them.