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Originally posted by starstruck52
Pop radio plays everything. Popular music. We're discussion the genre of pop music. There's a difference as Radio Phone already pointed out.
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Pop radio doesn't play everything. Why didn't they play Brit's MP or DS? You would think because it's Brit they would have played it and this was after the Clear Channel sh^%! Why do you think Taylor has to make Pop mixes? Why hasn't Carrie had another Pop smash since BHC? Why hasn't Pop radio started playing awful Rap songs like Flex and All The Way Turnt Up that are new and are in the same vain as Party Like A Rockstar and Laffy Taffy? Why didn't they start playing GaGa's SS when it was hot on iTunes chart even if it wasn't a single? They did it for JT's collabo with T6M and Timbaland CMU. You're full of it! Oh yeah what about the other notifications that I listed like the award shows or other publications saying that she's Pop? Focusing on radio and you fail!
Radio Phone contradicted his/herself when they compared a song from 04 when that was IN to what's hot in 07-NOW! As I said if that's the case Nelly's Promiscuous 06 and PCD's IDNAM 05 are R&B and are in the same boat with Con because that's not what Pop is anymore. As for DSTM and PF, their Dance. Did you NOT read what I explained before? I pointed it out first! You didn't get that the first time! I said the SAME damn THING when I mentioned just like Brit, Bey mixes her sound up and does different things with her music! It's not just R&B! It's not just Pop! So on and so on... She has some of everything! I just used them instead of Ush/Ri/Ga pretty much! When you didn't get that I resorted to the popular music concept since you are so narrow-minded to the genre explained way! You still look like you are judging by race (just like Radio Phone did with X-Tina and JT), not the music and her overall impact.
READ this time!
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Originally posted by starstruck52
There's a very obvious difference between "Ego" and "Circus". One is pop, one is R&B. Don't play stupid.
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I'm not gonna play stupid. You are though. I mean come on! Song wise yes that is the diff. Artist wise their both POP!
The comparison should have been "Ego" and "Blur" for R&B. Or "Sweet Dreams" and "Phonography" for Pop.
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Originally posted by starstruck52
Uh, yes she has. She has the most memorable pop song of the 90's. Without her, pop music would be completely different.
Beyonce hasn't done **** for pop music.
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So did B with DC! "Say My Name" was a Pop smash for example! Plus that's even BEFORE she went solo!
Funny how you say BOMT is the most memorable of the 90s when it could be argued that Whitney's IWALY, Celine's MHWGO or SG's Wannabe were!
What's even funnier is that Baby was meant for TLC and they turned it down. Not to say it would have the same results had they kept it, but I bet you would have considered it R&B if they did it and deny that they had become a POP staple before that song with the CrazySexyCool era! Their stamp was still on it as I guess MM didn't change much. The case Brit's BOMT is R&B/Pop. She's practically doing an imitation of T-Boz in the verse with her deep singing and Chilli in the hook when her voice goes soprano. It's a compliment since I listen to both artists. That's why it's good. She doesn't just do Pop.
Brit did NOTHING for Pop, but Brit set a rehash of teen female artists with record labels competing to have their own version (Christina, Jessica, Mandy, Hoku, etc.) that was earlier done by the Tiffanys and Debbie Gibsons before them.