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Originally posted by Beyond Say
Every black female pop/R&B artists was either conditioned to be "the next Beyoncé" or compared to her in 2003- 2005.
I was just watching the first season of Making the Band the other day and Diddy said his ultimate goal was to have "a group of Beyoncé's."
And K. Michelle said when she first persued getting signed she had a hard time because everyone was looking for a "Beyonce type star."
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Jennifer Lopez worked with Rich Harrison to recreate CIL, she got funky with Get Right. Bey's influence on her singing was already heard on her older records like Love Don't Cost a Thing.
Amerie released an album full of go go songs and exotic sounding songs like Touch, adopted the Beyoncé formula of energetic dancing in high heels, big vocals. Even the uh oh's were present in 1 Thing.
Christina Milian dyed her hair blond and released Dip It Low, which sounds like Naughty Girl/Baby Boy, than she released Whatever U Want which sounds like it was inspired by Bey's CIL. Later she released Say I, which sounds like a track from Destiny Fulfilled.
The Pussycat Dolls adopted the same sound as Bey (funk/Hip Hop) and the same style of dance (Carmit Bachar is featured in CIL).
Rihanna was found and got the Beyoncé make-over, years later she's still taking pointers from Beyoncé's vocal stylings and rap singing.
Artists like Toni Braxton and Usher tried to recreate Bey's/Rich's sound. Even
Alicia Keys got up from behind her piano a few times and did some choreo on very funky songs.
