I wouldn't put bey or Rih on the levels of the girls mentioned in the article.
Mariah carey, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston are in a completely different league in terms of peaks.
They're peaks are equal to Britney, Madonna and Adele
All 6 of them sold at least 30m per album during their peaks. No current pop girl is ever touching that.
You do know Japan loves black people, especially black hair, right?
Of course they have problems with a homogeneous society, but for the most part they're open to black superstars. Whitney was also huge in Japan.
Are you serious?
They do not.
It's obvious that they hold white people to a high standard, you only need to look at Animes to see that. I'm not saying all people in Japan are racist but there (and in most asian countries), white skin is seen as beautiful and black skin is seen as ugly.
Whitney and MJ may have had a few albums that did well there but It is still way easier for a white looking artist to smash there and it's not even debatable.
Rockabilly is not the beginning of Rock N Roll, it's one of the many genres that emerged in the 1950's after the black musicians had already laid out the groundrules. Only white artists made Rockabilly music and by 1960 no one cared for it.
1945
Sister Rosetta Tharpe used an electric guitar
1947
This vocal style sound familiar? He basically influenced all the white Rockabilly and Rock n roll artists in the 50s and 60s, notably Elvis.
1949 (the year Rock n Roll was created)
Jimmy Preston's original version of Rock This Joint, considered by many to be one of the first Rock n Roll songs ever released, along with Ike Turner's Rocket 88 released in 1951
3 years later Bill Haley, a Rockabilly artist, covered the song and it was the first Rockabilly song ever released in 1953. Before 1953, Joe Hill Louis released Boogie in the Park, Ike Turner released Rocket 88, Howlin' Wolf released How Many More years and Big Mama Thornton released Hound Dog. Rockabilly came after Rock n roll and wouldn't exist if it weren't for black musicians. Black rock n roll artists however were thriving before white people started playing it.
Rock n Roll comes from black musicians, period. Rock n Roll is basically Blues + Ragtime + Gospel + Swing and Jazz. All black music. Without these styles Rock n Roll and subsequently hard rock would not exist.
rock and roll is actually a mix of musical elements of the both balck and white, stop acting like black people created everything and stop babbling about which song is the first rock and roll song because there was not. you can't even call out which musical elements that contributed to created the genre. rock and roll was not created by just one or two song, it has a complex development.
white people contributions : the backbeat driven, fast guitar plucking technique of bluegrass, white people transfrom the techniques of playing jump blues from sax and piano to guitar, they played boogie woogie by guitar instead of piano, the rhythmic talikng/singing style
all those element above help developing the genre, therefore both black and white people own it.
but most of all, it's only called rock and roll when white people ( Alan Freed ) decided to bring this musical fusion out side of the door and perfomed it in a concert with large stage in front of hundred people with big amplifier system in stead of performing in small recording rooms and pub like rhythm and blues bands, follow it is the idolizing of teenagers.
some of you are so unshamefull when talking about stealing while the both black and white people nowadays do use the musical harmony system that was created by white hundred years ago.
Just because Whitney and Mariah had an album/single that sold more than Madonna does not mean they had a bigger peak. Going by that logic, Adele would have had a bigger peak than Lady Gaga no?
Just because Whitney and Mariah had an album/single that sold more than Madonna does not mean they had a bigger peak. Going by that logic, Adele would have had a bigger peak than Lady Gaga no?
Yes it does and Adele DID have a bigger peak than gaga lol
It's obvious that they hold white people to a high standard, you only need to look at Animes to see that. I'm not saying all people in Japan are racist but there (and in most asian countries), white skin is seen as beautiful and black skin is seen as ugly.
Whitney and MJ may have had a few albums that did well there but It is still way easier for a white looking artist to smash there and it's not even debatable.
