Underappreciated music genre of the week

This week: New Jack Swing

Simply described as the kind of music found on solo albums made by the members of New Edition in the years following the break-up, New Jack Swing is responsible for some of the best party jams of the early 90s.

Let us review:

“Poison”- Bell Biv Devoe
“Rub You The Right Way”- Johnny Gill
“My Prerogative”- Bobby Brown

Ralph Tresvant, alas, has yet to do anything of note.

Teddy Riley, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis basically owned the patent on New Jack Swing for a number of years, until it was stolen by the white man in the form of The New Kids On The Block, Color Me Badd, and Joey Lawrence.

New Jack, indeed. [ms]

~ by burstblog on January 18, 2007.