Album Review: Ginuwine’s A Man’s Thoughts

tigger500 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:00:06 +0000

Popular music moves so fast that it can be easy to forget the impact that artists make on the industry, or the genre in which they work.

I say that because I’m going to say that Ginuwine’s debut album, Ginuwine…The Bachelor, helped to revolutionize black popular music when it was released in 1996. And it’s going to sound like hyperbole, because, in pop music terms, 13 years is a long time, and music critics haven’t done an adequate job of situating Ginuwine in his rightful place within black music history.

In 1996, black popular music was in a state of transition. New Jack Swing’s dominance was waning, and the sample-heavy sound of Sean “Puffy” Combs and the bass-heavy, funk-inspired sounds of Atlanta were on the rise, while the music that would be called “neo-soul” was just starting to emerge.

Ginuwine came in and did something different from all three…

Go read the rest at Popmatters.

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Album Review: Ginuwine’s A Man’s Thoughts