Bring Real R&B Back! 13 music videos where artists sing in the rain

• During the 90s and early aughts, music videos from marquee names were seemingly obsessed with sticking artists in a downpour. Whether it complemented the song or not, added passion or posturing, the “R&B artist singing in the rain” motif was a fixture of R&B. It’s unclear why or how this became the dominating aesthetic of the era’s R&B output, but it usually made for a great music video, and it remains an enduring standard for fans of the genre.