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Babyface was one of the first songwriters to standardize R&B - strings, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, breakdown and chorus, end. It was beautiful but way easier to replicate than the classic soul that came before it, a pre-packaging of soul music that many say ruined the R&B genre (and that I'll admit created a bunch of songs that sound suspiciously similar.)

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Thembi Ford is a pop culture critic based in Philadelphia, PA. Her writing, which focuses on entertainment news, politics, and pop culture commentary with a comedic twist, has been featured on a number of websites including The Root, Jezebel, AOL Black Voices, and The Smoking Section. In print, Thembi is a regular contributor to Metro's "Voices" column.

In July 2007, Thembi founded the blog What Would Thembi Do?, a mix between cultural commentary, entertainment opinion, black pop culture, and, above all else, humor writing. With regular entertainment reviews, Thembi's appeal is her knack for slicing through America's wide-spread political correction to share her wickedly clever observations on modern culture and the human condition.