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Originally posted by MiaBella
I feel like Bey has two separate types of fans. The ones who want to bop and don't mind the occasional ballad and the contrived ones who want soul! vocals! ballads! and if they don't get it, they're dipping out.
Oh well, the fact that I'm going to be bopping regardless of whether she raps 12 songs in a row or belts 12 songs in a row...I'm good.  |
Yeah I really don't get the fans that dislike her hip hop influences and hate when she infuses styles of music that she clearly loves and is passionate and always has been. Beyond that, it's really and truly the biggest part of her legacy as far as her creativity and innovation, what she brought to the table and what her presence on the music scene did to shift the landscape. Her unique uptempo singing fusing rapping into her vocal delivery is what made her and DC famous; she was never the young girl belting huge ballads to prove a point about what she could do, it was always about their unique style. Cite Killing Time and Second Nature all you like (I love them too, tho), but it wasn't those songs that made Bey famous; it was No, No, No, Bug a Boo, Say My Name, Jumpin', Jumpin' etc. the urban music made her and created her niche; hell, a lot of the hardcore R&B fans didn't like Bey back in the day because they felt like what she was doing wasn't ~real singing or ~real R&B even though it was labeled as such.
I mean if you want to do the revisionist thing and act like Bey was this hardcore balladeer that always put on obnoxious vocal displays just because she could or whatever, do you, but the hip hop elements have always been there and they're never leaving. If the ***Flawless', 7/11s and Formations bother you, maybe Celine or someone can better accommodate you 'cause it's never changing.
Ever.
