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How come a lot of people don't consider Adele a "pop girl", and exclude from the normative of current pop girls. It's fair to compare Adele to the other pop girls because she makes soulful POP music. Whitney, Moo, and Celine STILL competed and was compared to Madonna, Tranet and Paula, even though the former were vocalist. Isn't Adele vs. the pop girls the same thing? It's as if people are bamboozled into thinking colorful hair, dance songs and legions of gay dancers and fans defines a pop girl. Mess.  Face it, Rihanna would get slaughtered (or anyone at this point for that matter) if released so close to 25. |
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do consider Adele a pop girl. But the case against comparing Rih with Adele is the same as the one you made regarding Rih and One Direction: they're separate entities reaching two separate demographics. I could see an Adele vs. Beyoncé or an Adele vs. Gaga (in her heyday) narrative taking place due to their relative statures, but I don't think the media would ever run with a similar narrative about Rihanna, because they have neither the stature nor the shared demographic appeal.
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As to her getting her first #1 album in 2012, hey, maybe the music just wasn't good enough for it to happen sooner.
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But that would imply that Unapologetic is her best album, which
(and more generally it would imply that quality and commercial success are somehow correlated, which is equally wrong).
