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Music News: NY Times: Ke$ha, Katy & Gaga: Part of Pop Music's Downsizing
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Originally posted by HausofCherry
There were other artists mentioned here besides those three, you clearly chose the title to flamebait.
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What other artists? 
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Originally posted by rihannar0x8
It is actually in the article.
Pop’s new divas may not be able to ascend to vocal heights the way Ms. Aguilera still can in “Burlesque.” But in many ways they’re better suited for the post-crash economy. Every so often even pop music has to downsize.
Gaga, Ke$ha and Katy are the three main pop singers they talk about. |
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There were other artists mentioned here besides those three, you clearly chose the title to flamebait.
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Compared to Ke$ha and Katy, Rihanna SLAYS.  |
That's highly subjective. And she wasn't compared to them.
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What other artists? |
Beyonce, Pink, Taylor, Rihanna.
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Originally posted by rihannar0x8
"Pop’s new divas may not be able to ascend to vocal heights the way Ms. Aguilera still can in “Burlesque.” But in many ways they’re better suited for the post-crash economy. Every so often even pop music has to downsize."
Yes it is.
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no it isn't.
there are more than 10 artists mentioned in the article, you don't know which of them they talked about in that sentence.
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Originally posted by Rihannafan
Who cares? Ke$ha still ***** on the world  |
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Originally posted by HausofCherry
Beyonce, Pink, Taylor, Rihanna. |
"Starting with Lady Gaga and Ms. Perry the nonmelisma female performers who have taken over iPods and the radio couldn’t be more different vocally. On “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream,” her ubiquitous 2010 hits, Ms. Perry opts for short, breathy gulps in her singing. Her voice occasionally glides into an upper register, as on the bridge of “California Gurls,” but it mostly aims to convey likability and approachability, not prowess and imperiousness.
As heard on her current single “We R Who We R” from her new mini-album, “Cannibal,” Kesha has a thin, often computer-manipulated voice that recalls ’80s new-wave pop acts. It’s often hard to tell when her singing voice ends and the Vocoder processing kicks in."
They are saying these 3 artists are nonmelisma female performers. They dont say Rihanna is, and they say Beyonce & P!nk WERE, but had to downsize because of artists like Gaga, Katy & Ke$ha.
Its clearly obvious the THREE nonmelisma performers they talk about are Katy, Gaga & Ke$ha.
I was not trying to flamebait at all.
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Originally posted by rihannar0x8
They dont say Bey is bad. They say shes one of the best, but shes had to downsize also.
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She never had to downsize and she had never downsized.
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Originally posted by rihannar0x8
Starting with Lady Gaga and Ms. Perry the nonmelisma female performers who have taken over iPods and the radio couldn’t be more different vocally. On “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream,” her ubiquitous 2010 hits, Ms. Perry opts for short, breathy gulps in her singing. Her voice occasionally glides into an upper register, as on the bridge of “California Gurls,” but it mostly aims to convey likability and approachability, not prowess and imperiousness.
As heard on her current single “We R Who We R” from her new mini-album, “Cannibal,” Kesha has a thin, often computer-manipulated voice that recalls ’80s new-wave pop acts. It’s often hard to tell when her singing voice ends and the Vocoder processing kicks in.
They are saying these 3 artists are nonmelisma female performers. They dont say Rihanna is, and they say Beyonce & P!nk WERE, but had to downsize because of artists like Gaga, Katy & Ke$ha.
Its clearly obvious the THREE nonmelisma performers they talk about are Katy, Gaga & Ke$ha.
I was not trying to flamebait at all.
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The middle of the article, really? 
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"Pop’s new divas may not be able to ascend to vocal heights the way Ms. Aguilera still can in “Burlesque.” But in many ways they’re better suited for the post-crash economy. Every so often even pop music has to downsize."
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The proper title would have been:
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NY Times: Pop's new divas: Part of Pop Music's Downsizing
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Originally posted by Duca
That's highly subjective. And she wasn't compared to them.
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The robotic insanity that hurls from Ke$ha's mouth is NO competition, not even for Rihanna, Katy is Rih's girl so I'll ignore her. I never said they did compare.
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She never had to downsize and she had never downsized.
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Duca, are you a professional pop music reviewer and reporter? No.
So if NY Times says Beyonce has had to downsize, and Duca says Beyonce has NOT had to downsize, Im going to have to agree with the NY Times.
"Beyoncé and Pink, who embraced melisma early in their careers, have both left it behind."
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The middle of the article, really?
The proper title would have been:
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The only other two people they mention have had to downsize are P!nk & Beyonce, but they said that they were once Melisma performers, which Katy, Gaga & Ke$ha never were.
So what could I make the title?
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Who cares who he wrote in the title, it grabbed ya'll attention so it worked. 
The only thing that matters anyway is that after X, the rest of the pop stars are throw awayable, and/or fads. 
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no it isn't.
there are more than 10 artists mentioned in the article, you don't know which of them they talked about in that sentence.
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The article is about how popular female singers now opt for less over-the-top vocals.
Somehow they compare the vocal downsizing to the economic downsizing.
Rihanna is also mentioned as part of the downsizing - the fact that there's only one line about her isn't complimentary though, it's the other way around, since the article is about relevance in today's female music world.
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Originally posted by Shaliydah88
The robotic insanity that hurls from Ke$ha's mouth is NO competition, not even for Rihanna, Katy is Rih's girl so I'll ignore her. I never said they did compare. |
Well Sales say otherwise 
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Originally posted by rihannar0x8
Duca, are you a professional pop music reviewer and reporter? No.
So if NY Times says Beyonce has had to downsize, and Duca says Beyonce has NOT had to downsize, Im going to have to agree with the NY Times.
"Beyoncé and Pink, who embraced melisma early in their careers, have both left it behind." |
Beyoncé just keeps getting better and she is the only voice of our generation. Her vocals on "If I Were A Boy" are the best vocals music has had in quite a while.
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Beyoncé just keeps getting better and she is the only voice of our generation. Her vocals on "If I Were A Boy" are the best vocals music has had in quite a while.
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Again. I dont care what you think. She may be a great vocalist, but her vocals in Single Ladies and Telephone dont compare to hers in Irreplaceable, Naughty Girl, Me, Myself & I, etc.
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Well Sales say otherwise
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No they dont. 
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Christina better slay 
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
The article is about how popular female singers now opt for less over-the-top vocals.
Somehow they compare the vocal downsizing to the economic downsizing.
Rihanna is also mentioned as part of the downsizing - the fact that there's only one line about her isn't complimentary though, it's the other way around, since the article is about relevance in today's female music world.
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Better to be talked about, even in a negative way, than to be ignored 
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