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Originally posted by Moonage Daydream
Alright, I admit I was wrong for that so I take it back, but why do people feel the need to compare female artists and insist that there must be successors and replacements? They rarely do this to male artists.
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When male pop stars were relevant and dominating the genre they compared everybody to MJ (Usher, Justin Timberlake, etc). The media will always pit artists against eachother because it's the best way to get a strong reaction from the public. I mean look at this very thread. Do you think the thread would have had as much life had the question been 'Is Rihanna coming into her own?' instead of 'Is Rihanna Worthy of becoming Beyonce's Future Successor?'....probably not....and just to reiterate what I said earlier, these kind of comparisons don't just happen in music, they are staple of Journalism...They compare athletes to one another (is Kobe the next MJ?), they compare Politicians to one another, so on and so forth.