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Old 11-12-2011, 03:44
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because it feels like she's done pop in her last two albums. she hardly has r&b in her music really.
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Old 11-12-2011, 03:46
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She is solid R&B
Rubbish & Bollocks
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Old 11-12-2011, 04:21
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Old 11-12-2011, 05:19
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Crap artist! Shes a sell out!
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Old 11-12-2011, 06:02
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Crap artist! Shes a sell out!
dont even start. when she did reggae no one cared. now she does pop she's sold over 50 million records. so which one should she do?? FGS. :sleep:
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Old 11-12-2011, 10:05
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I think she's urban pop, but she keeps crossing over to pop, so I wouldn't blame anyone for labelling her as a POP artist...
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Old 11-12-2011, 10:11
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dont even start. when she did reggae no one cared. now she does pop she's sold over 50 million records. so which one should she do?? FGS. :sleep:
She never really did reggae, she did reggae influenced r'n'b' and pop for her first album and she's been doing urban pop ever since with the some island flavour in the odd song.Hardly a reggae artist...Besides, 'Pon De Replay' was a big hit, so it's not like nobody cared.
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Old 11-12-2011, 11:12
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She calls herself a popstar. So pop.

Almost all her singles are dance-pop or midtempto pop ballads.
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Old 11-12-2011, 11:54
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She never really did reggae, she did reggae influenced r'n'b' and pop for her first album and she's been doing urban pop ever since with the some island flavour in the odd song.Hardly a reggae artist...Besides, 'Pon De Replay' was a big hit, so it's not like nobody cared.
and the second single flopped. It pretty much was reggae. and I meant critically. The critics weren't very complimentary, even though her debut wasn't that bad.
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Old 11-12-2011, 11:55
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She calls herself a popstar. So pop.

Almost all her singles are dance-pop or midtempto pop ballads.
Yeah, I'd agree. If anything, she leans a bit more towards dance than anything else.
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Old 11-12-2011, 11:59
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Pop Star
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Old 11-12-2011, 12:22
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She's a mix of both personally but is shying away from R&B more.
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Old 11-12-2011, 12:32
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I don't know what defines either, tbh.
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Old 11-12-2011, 12:49
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Can't we just call it pop music like we used to? You don't have to stick another word to it all the time like urban or dance or r&b. She is obviously pop.

Of all the crappy chart music we have to put up with these days Rihanna is someone I don't actually mind. She's not very talented herself but the vast team she's got behind her doing most of the work at least come up with some decent, catchy pop songs. She's a decent pop star in that respect, especially compared to most of the crap around at the moment.
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Old 11-12-2011, 12:56
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and the second single flopped. It pretty much was reggae. and I meant critically. The critics weren't very complimentary, even though her debut wasn't that bad.
It didn't flop THAT bad Besides, it's mostly due to a lack of promotion and bad management.It did moderately well I think As far as the critical reception is concerned, it was her 1st album and she was a very young act with no specific musical direction so she wasn't going to get heavily praised obviously, but if she had taken that sound a bit further, she might have got better reviews.The reggae-influenced songs she did with Sean Paul for her AGLM album entered the US top 10 with no promotion and no video, so she was doing rather well with that sound too, but her management chose a more mainstream and safe path, which is not a bad thing, since she managed to pull it off I guess
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Old 11-12-2011, 13:11
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What she does is not RnB
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Old 11-12-2011, 13:18
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She's a pop artist that does an RnB song occasionally.

From her last album, Only Girl, S&M and California King Bed are all pop songs. Only What's My Name? is an RnB song, so I'd classify her as a pop artist.

I know this is controversial, but I'm sure her skin colour has a lot to do with her being classified as an RnB artist sometimes. I mean, Britney Spears, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado, etc. did RnB or hip hop songs occasionally, and they were never considered RnB artists.
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Old 11-12-2011, 13:19
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Pop, with some Urban/R'n'B influences, and occasional Reggae influences.

But really, she's a Popstar.
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Old 11-12-2011, 14:28
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both really!
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Old 11-12-2011, 15:43
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I'd describe her as urban pop (along with the likes of Alesha Dixon, Cheryl Cole, Beyonce etc). Definitely more pop than R&B anyway.
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Old 11-12-2011, 15:50
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I'd describe her as urban pop (along with the likes of Alesha Dixon, Cheryl Cole, Beyonce etc). Definitely more pop than R&B anyway.
I preferred her when she was more soulful-but she makes money from what she does now so you cant blame her.

I wouldn't call Cheryl Cole any form of urban, r n b etc-she ain't got no soul in that flat and out of tune mess that passes as singing.
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Old 11-12-2011, 16:16
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Pop with some urban pop/R&B influences
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Old 11-12-2011, 18:21
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Her first two albums could be classed as contemporary R&B, but pretty much everything from 'Good Girl Gone Bad' onwards has been pop save the odd R&B song here and there.
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Old 11-12-2011, 21:01
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whitney houston was really pop when she came in and in her ballads it was soul music. she was pop/soul. she was r&b when she released im your baby tonight and since then she was really r&b but still put in pop in her songs though.

beyonce is r&b but was went pop with i am sasha fierce but her current album is hardcore r&b imo.
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Old 11-12-2011, 21:14
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A soft porn actress who sings pop songs?
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