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Thirty-three tracks mapping where R&B's next generation of women actually is — which turns out to be a long way from radio. The princesses, and where they are working What this playlist documents is a genuine structural change. For most of R&B's history, a young woman with a great voice went through a major label, radio and a video budget. That machinery has largely collapsed, and what replaced it is a much wider, flatter field: artists building audiences through streaming, sync placements and word of mouth, releasing at their own pace, and frequently writing and producing their own material. The result is more variety than the genre has had in decades — and considerably less visibility for any individual artist. What to listen for SZA's "Good Days" is the biggest record here and the proof of concept: an unhurried, structurally loose song that became enormous without conceding anything to radio convention. Tinashe appears twice and is...