Programmes like X Factor encourage young talent to warble away in the style that sells unfortunately. I don't think it is rejected as such it's just that young black and white kids these days want to get famous and rich quick. Rapping and hip-hop in the UK has become the music for both black and white kids mainly in the inner cities. For them it is important it keeps them off the street and out of trouble, for a while anyway, N-Dubz is a group that comes to mind who are typical of that music culture. I hate it but then it isn't for me thank goodness.

My son ironically has re-discovered blues and has started buying the old names like Hooker and Waters etc. and rejecting the new R&B so perhaps there is hope.