From her flawless country demos, her ballads, her rock feature with Alice Cooper, her rapping on Sleazy, her sing-talk voice and pop vocals she's touched alot of genres and they all suit her well.
Her strength is R&B, definitely, but I think she's still able to pull of rock and dance songs excellently. Her performances of You Oughta Know and Radio perfectly demonstrate this.
I wouldn't classify Radio as electro or synth powered Dance music and I never liked her performances of You Oughta Know they weren't nearly as raw and as evocative as the haunting vocal performances of Alanis. Beyonce has a good instrument but the sound of her voice doesn't compliment rock music IMO and it never did. Her natural element is urban music with gospel overtones that bridge well into classical ballad material.
Would anyone care to explain how Rihanna's voice is versatile?
It goes with pretty much any musical genre. I would say her instrument is fairly versatile. She might not be able to do country but I can't see what else her voice couldn't do.
Would anyone care to explain how Rihanna's voice is versatile?
she can sing all kinds of songs
latin te amo
house WFL WHYB
europop S&M and OG
country ballads CKB
pop YDO urban WMN and cockiness
she has also sung with people like coldplay bon jovi and U2 who are rock influenced
That Sex On Fire cover sounded good but she didn't really do that genre much justice. She basically sang it as some gospel ballad.
Somebody could do a metal cover of a pop song and make the genre metal. Her singing a rock song doesn't automatically make it a rock cover.
I still laugh everytime I hear Bey trying to scat sing.
Bey can't sing rock or jazz as well as Gaga, tho. Bey does R*B/Hip-Hop better, but that doesn't mean Gaga can't muster up her inner black gurl.
They all have a specific genre the excel in. Beyonce's is R&B, but that doesn't dispute the fact that she performs well in all the genre's she has touched. From very slow acoustic songs like "thats why your beautiful", a little opera with "ave Maria", to crazy dance ballads like SL & RTW. Not everyone can have a balance with such opposite genre's as well as she does.