DEATH @ ppl thinking being able to be versatile means that you mimic whatever genre you're trying to dip in. If you have to force a gritty voice to sing rock & then force another voice to dance, etc etc then you're doing it wrong.
Beyoncé, Rihanna & Gaga are the most versatile in their own ways, Britney is the least.
First of all, Britney rarely sings live & singing in a studio doesn't prove **** but the producer's ability to morph your voice. That can be proven many times with various videos of ****** singers sounding nothing like how they sound in the studio. When has Britney ever dabbled outside of pop and it's subgenres? Oh wait, she TRIED with "I Love Rock N Roll" & was DRAGGEd thru the mud for ruining it. But onward, when has Britney ever sung without putting on that sex kitten voice or sing a ballad without it sounding like a derivative of Everytime? I'll wait, but I'm not here for someone presenting me with some ********.
Gaga can do pop, rock, some urban, jazz & country but has a hard time making a convincing soft pop ballad. Let's also not forget that she tried to give Beyoncé with the Video Phone remix and we ended up with an autotuned mess and some straight up HIDEOUS vocal runs.
Rihanna can decide when to turn on & off her accent for her songs, but some songs she can't even sing live without a LOUD backing track (Only Girl, We Found Love). Where's the versatility if you can't even sing it live? Besides her accent, Rihanna's other advantage is her lower register. She can do heavy urban songs like Wait Your Turn & G4L while other's can't.
Beyoncé is super versatile, ranging from pop, rock, gospel, jazz, soul, contemporary R&B, hip-hop, Latin pop and many other [sub]genres. Beyoncé can sing over a beat that
sounds like a video game theme song with
a gospel-style chant vocal and make it a cross-over contemporary R&B, multi-format pop song compared to Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." Beyoncé can sing
a Latin Pop song in full Spanish and sound right at home on it, even if she has no clue what she's saying. The bitch can follow melodies and adjust her voice accordingly while STILL sounding like Beyoncé. Beyoncé can sing over Arabic-influenced pop beats and even give
an Arabic-styled vocal run full of beauty. Which one of your favs can
scat? Where are your fave's songs where they give you
big band funk that gives Teena Marie (RIP)
a run for her money? I'm tired of you bitches thinking that "Urban" or "R&B" music is one sound. "oh, but niece! Listen to Gagz mimic MIA on Chillin! listen to Gagz talk about getting dropped from Def Jam on Paper Gangsta! She's urb! But niece waiT! What about Starstruck? UrbaGa? It features Flo Rida! She could slay Deja Vu niece- it's all the same genre!" The **** she can't. DEATH @ Beyoncé not being able to do dance convincingly. Then WHY do you gerls go up for Sweet Dreams & Radio? I mean, where's the sense in that contradiction? And let's not forget Beyoncé being the best part of Telephone. Who else is giving you a
Ring The Alarm live vocal besides Beyoncé? Beyoncé can give you
Broadway style vocal. I mean, are your faves even invited to the Oscars? Beyoncé can give you
Prince-styled rock-&-B & have it called an instant classic by Pitchfork just a little after release. Beyoncé can
mix 20 different genres in one & GUIDe you lost hoes over the frantic beat with her great vocals & make it critically acclaimed. Beyoncé can give you a
Jackson 5-esque vocal complete with pre-crack Whitney Houston key changing SLAYs and having you lost girls wishing you were born in the 1970s. Who the **** else is doing it? No one. Because half these bitches can't even sing.
The only one that can compete with Beyoncé in versatility is Rihanna, but that's only in the studio. Rihanna still needs to work on her live delivery of even her most basic songs. Now I provided receipts (where are your gurls's?), a persuasive arguement & proved that Beyoncé is the only right answer. Don't even try to deny it, just accept it, move on & live your life right by the King B.
Also, don't ever try Beyoncé in a vocal thread against non-singing bitches unless you want to get bodied and deaded. But whatever, another wack thread to downplay the King B & give your fave a couple of points in the "talent" department. Whatever you ppl get your rocks off to. God bless.