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Originally posted by sethhhj
-Milian came out in 2001...
-Love Story being compared to Beyonce????
-Those Rihanna songs and With You have nothing in common with Irreplaceable except they're all ballads?
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You're right about Milian, but what I really meant was her image at the Dip It Low stage of her career. I mistook that as her debut. I was also wrong because Dip it Low was in 2004 not 2005. So yes, she debuted in 2001 but going from this:
to this after Beyonce became huge is probably not a coincidence.
Love Story IS very Beyonce. It's not the strongest point I've made but it got comparisons at the time.
And those Rihanna songs and With You have a lot in common with Irreplaceable. For starters, most of them have the same style of strong catchy acoustic guitar riff like Irreplaceable. Good Girl Gone Bad (song) even has an almost identical version of it and Take a Bow's lyrics use the same sarcasm and breakup bravado as Irreplaceable. Don't belittle yourself by only thinking that the similarities are that they are ballads (they aren't even ballads, they're all mid-tempos). You can argue that a 10 week #1 hit song that broke records and was everywhere did not create imitators, especially when you have such obvious evidence as I outlined, but it will be hard.