I can't wait for EDM/dance to be over cause R&B/Urban music is a million times better and lasts longer.

I feel like the Little Monsters like GaGa more for her achievements then her music based on the fact that you hardly see them discussing her music but how much its going to sell and how its going to be iconic.

Shame, because GaGa makes fantastic music and her "iconic" status is over shadowing all of it.

I would rather have Carly Rae Jepsen's brand of cutesy pop than Taylor Swift's.

Everyone always talks about how Ke$ha is so much more intelligent and artistic and talented than she seems, but she has yet to prove it. Her new album is shockingly unimaginative.

I think once 2020 hits, Gaga Katy and Rihanna will experience what happened to Brit Christina and Beyonce around 2010/2011. Katy will be the Christina of the group.

P!nk, Beyonce and Gaga are all great performers with good vocals who are often let down by their own material.

LOL at Bad being a recreation of Control, they are two completely different albums sonically.

. Control isn't even entirely original in itself as you can hear the sound was hugely influenced by prince & michael. literally every song on that record could have went to either MJ or prince.

. Just because someone incorporates new jack swing like janet doesn't mean they completely ripped her off. What next Don't Be Cruel by Bobby Brown was a ripoff of control because they both were in the same genre

. Like I said again janet took more from michael, as the sound on her debut was made possible by her big brother innovating it through "Thriller".

. Lastly if were going to talk about recreations. Rythm Nation took some notes FROM Bad. "Black Cat" sounds like "Dirty Diana Part 2". "Come Back To Me" copied "Liberian Girl Part 2". "Love Will Never Do Without You" sounds like a MJ reject song. And let's not get started on the rest of the album.

Try again

Channel Orange = Worst album of the year

(it's only popular cause he's gay)

I love my dance/trance music. I love my pop music. I HATE dance/pop fused together, keep those two separate please

Girl On Fire is my favorite Alicia Keys album.

Yes lol

Love Blood by In This Moment too btw

That's like saying the world wouldn't praise Gaga if not for Bad Romance or Madonna if not for ROL. Those things happened and they are praised now. Even if you're right, it's not something you can argue over because you don't really know. Those artists created/consciously pursued those iconic moments and they are more famous because of their own work.

They are both unlistenable. Janelle Monae soiled her good name by collaborating with them.

I wrote, like, 500 words about this pages ago and you put my thoughts far more eloquently

Carrie Underwood has a great voice but mediocre material for the most part. Her single choices are usually good though.

"Say It Right" is awful. Nelly has some great songs, but that

The only thing that Michael would've done on that album is Funny How Time Flies, and that's because it sampled The Lady in My Life. Nothing else on it sounds like anything he'd ever done before. He did not do new jack swing before Bad/Dangerous. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were Prince's protogés so of course it's influenced by Prince. Everybody in R&B is influenced by Prince anyway.
Control was a turning point in making NJS mainstream. Don't Be Cruel came out over two years later.

I already said it but Thriller isn't similar to Control at all. Thriller is very pop-heavy and more varied; rock and disco are featured prominently in its sound. Control is almost entirely new jack swing and R&B/hip-hop influenced.

Black Cat is the only thing you got right there tbh. Funny you mention LWND because he copied her by using Herb Ritts for the In the Closet video.

Too many similarities from ONE routine to be a mere coincidence.



"Nasty" ------> "Bad"
"When I Think Of You" -------> "The Way You Make Me Feel"

The approach to these songs is very similar. The edginess and "in your face" attitude of "Bad" is reminiscent of "Nasty". WITOY and TWYMMF lyrically approach is similar.

"Bad" was pretty much MJ showing the world that he had an edgy side. Something Janet already accomplished with "Control". Diddy even commented that when Janet released "Control", we finally had a Jackson with some edge. Shade. MJ always had a boy-next-door persona from his first album up thru "Thriller". It wasn't until Janet had a breakthrough that he tried to compete and show he could be 'edgy'.

You may not want to admit it, but MJ was influenced by Janet from 1986 until his death. The sad part is nobody notices, and/or wants to admit it for fear that 'his inferior' just may have been a little further ahead than him.

And please don't get me started on RN1814 Part II Dangerous.

Roc Me Out > Rude Boy
Cheryl Cole > Girls Aloud
TTT is some of Rihanna's best work
Roman Reloaded is a good album
Mariah has nothing on Madonna, Janet, and Whitney

90% of people who aren't stans think that or don't know who she is so no

Stupid In Love by Rihanna is one of the best song of Rated R!!! Firebomb and Cold Case Love are so freaking overrated I mean they are good deep songs but they are not the best thing since slice bread

I like 4 over Talk That Talk