How to Listen to Mr. Carl Thomas

Bash Amuneni once shared a meme on social media of American singer Carl Thomas singing in the rain.

The meme’s text suggested that R&B had lost its essence when crooners stopped groaning in the rain and it rings true.

Arguably, R&B has been on a decline for about a decade or more. The bedroom ballad playlist has hardly improved in a dozen years. While Hip-Hop thrives on the global…