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Originally posted by jokermusic
adele is basically associated with the ballad trend right now, but no singular artist can get credit for making a trend in popular music...ohh ok
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You've got me there. You're right. But I meant genres not types of songs. An entire genre of music is a lot different than a specific type of song like a ballad. Urban is WAY too broad to simply say that Rihanna brought it back. There are urban ballads, up tempos, mid tempos, slow jams, rap, trap, like.. shall I go on?
We could just as easily say that Rihanna was inspired by 4 to create more urban sounding music because Beyonce did R&B in 2011 when it was all dance and then by 2012 it was going away. I don't believe this though, but it shows how some things just don't connect.