I do agree that BLACKED has gone downhill. It started when Greg Lansky left the adult entertainment business.
There's some good ladies featured on BLACKED these days (Blake Blossom, SlimThick Vic, Jia Lissa and Kay Lovely for example) but most of them don't hold a candle against the ladies from 2014-2018 BLACKED. Most of them aren't appealing (everyone looking trashy, looking the same or the many tattoos) and boring performances.
Compared to the older actresses that looked appealing and were good performers. Look at Karla Kush, compared to the new girls, she stands out and generally looks appealing. Maybe because she looked like a normal woman and was good in her scenes. I don't know why they can't find better girls, did the talent recruitment change when Lansky left?
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And the younger ladies looked innocent or gorgeous like Alli Rae.
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The male actors aren't to be let off the hook though. Most of the current ones suck. They have terrible chemistry with the female co-stars, no charisma, always mediocre and sometimes look like they're hurting the women (Anton Harden instantly comes to mind). In the early days, the black men could bring out the best out of inexperienced or subpar white women and make a good scene. Jason Brown, Flash Brown, Prince Yahshua, Jason Luv and Rob Piper could all do that. Jax Slayher may be the one if the only good ones in the post Lansky era.
Flash for example did it with Amarna Miller. He was able to make you believe the girls were into him.
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And if they were with a woman who was experienced or on their level (or higher), magic was made. Dani Daniels and Anikka Albrite's threesome with Rob Piper is proof of this. Dani & Anikka were two of the best in business at the time and Rob fucked both at the peak of their sexiness. No wonder why it won an AVN award. I think it's one of the best porn scenes ever made.
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Not only that, the overall production and direction is very repetitive and doesn't allow the girls to stand out or showcase their abilities. The production now looks overproduced and glossy compared to the early scenes when they in a white bed room or a place with a nice outdoor scenery in the background. Giving us a high end vibe to what we were watching. And the direction could guide the newer/younger ladies on what to do in the scene and make them look like $1 million. Potentially giving life to their careers. Kendra Sunderland's Obsession series is an example of all of this. Doesn't she look priceless here?
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You hardly see kissing and rimjobs in current BLACKED. Why did they get rid of it? People have a thing about seeing black men and white women lock lips and seeing them play with each other's asses. Hell we don't see the ladies fuck one another in threesome/foursome scenes that much anymore. All of these things sucks into the scenes.
Zoey Monroe kissing Flash in the shower (they should also bring back shower scenes)
View attachment 8035202Ashley Fires rimming Jason Brown. He got his ass ate quite a bit. Another thing I should mention is that white women actually use to give pleasure to black men in the early BLACKED scenes. It brought more realism to the scenes.
View attachment 8035203Jillian Janson rimming Sabrina Banks. I love watching women rim each other. It's beautiful to watch. Especially in FFM scenes. It reminds us that it's 3 people having sex with each other and not 2v1. Bring it back.
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Finally, BLACKED generally look like erotic art. It felt like sex belonged in a museum.
This picture of Alli Rae, Flash and Dakota James looks like a renaissance painting.
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This picture of Leah Gotti. There are no words.
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Ladies rimming Ladies is always beautiful to watch. Case and point, Riley Reid rimming Dakota James here. Her eyes looking directly into the camera, her tongue inside Dakota's anus and her hands holding onto the cheeks.
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One of my favorite pictures. Kylie Page riding Flash. A good example of color contrast, where black men and white women look natural together and their skin blends well.
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I didn't intend on making this post a quick essay, but there's a reason why early BLACKED still gets all the praise and looked back on fondly. I can only hope they revert back to the old format.