Foxx: "Nobody wants to hear R&B"

Jamie Foxx has claimed that no-one wants to listen to R&B anymore.

The singer told Parade magazine that he is trying to stay "current" with his music.

"It's like all my R&B cohorts are out of jobs right now," he explained. "My daughter always goes, 'Dad, you sound old. You sound 50. Why don't you have a machine on your voice? They're not going to like that. You gotta sound young'.

"Then when she heard me sing 'Blame It' she went, 'That's it. That's real music'."

However, Foxx admitted that he likes the "sexy" nature of R&B.

"When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women," he said. "I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman.

"I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that."