How come Ginuwine didn't become a bigger star?

[Here Comes the Pain]

I look back at Ginuwine in his prime and I seriously don't understand why he didn't become a bigger star. He made good music for the most part. He had all the intangibles to be as big of a star as Usher. He was probably equally talented and he had sex appeal. I was thinking that maybe it was him having a good portion of his music revolve around sex, but then I thought well usher basically did the same thing and that's going back to his debut album.

So what did he do wrong that Usher did right?

 

[TheRtist]

I look back at Ginuwine in his prime and I seriously don't understand why he didn't become a bigger star. He made good music for the most part. He had all the intangibles to be as big of a star as Usher. He was probably equally talented and he had sex appeal. I was thinking that maybe it was him having a good portion of his music revolve around sex, but then I thought well usher basically did the same thing and that's going back to his debut album.

So what did he do wrong that Usher did right?

simple. he did drugs.

plus he was already 30+ at his peak. Usher was a legit child star.

 

[Craig Mack]

After his parents died back to back he started popping pills, him & timbo started beefing, not to mention he married Sole. If you a sex symbol that's the last thing your female fans wanna hear. Usher still ain't recover from that last marriage lol

 

[jadillac]

yeah, he was a grown man already.

You had to be a younger dude or already be established like R. Kelly, Luther, Babyface, Gerald Levert etc.

But don't be fooled, Ginuwine was a big star. His first two abums both went 2x platinum.

He didn't fall off until his music did, which was after the 2nd album

 

[Calmye]

He was huge what are you taking about? How old are you

 

[spliz]

Ginuwine was a huge star. The fukk kinda thread is this? Lol. nikka had all kinda hits and a few multiplatinum albums.

 

[L&HH]

Usher was a child star. That's a major advantage

 

[McPiff]

the booth y'all

 

[PoPimp84]

Maaan I would put the Bachelor and 100% Ginuwine against any contemporary r&b album (except kells). Two of my favorite all time albums regardless of genre. Man he and timbo had chemistry

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

He was huge what are you taking about?

Ginuwine was a huge star. The fukk kinda thread is this?

I never said he wasn't a star. I wanted to know why he wasn't bigger star. I felt like he could have reached usher level stardom wise. He was probably just as talented.

 

[spliz]

I never said he wasn't a star. I wanted to know why he wasn't bigger star. I felt like he could have reached usher level stardom wise. He was probably just as talented.

He was more talented than Usher being that he's more than likely directly influential to Usher dancing in his videos and he wrote a lot of his own hits.

 

[Dboy41]

He made good music, but it didnt have mainstream appeal. Then him and Tim started beefing and he started to givin JT them smash beats...

 

[Dboy41]

He was more talented than Usher being that he's more than likely directly influential to Usher dancing in his videos and he wrote a lot of his own hits.

Actually Static wrote most of ginuwine shyt.. That nikka was an underrated genius

 

[spliz]

He made good music, but it didnt have mainstream appeal. Then him and Tim started beefing and he started to givin JT them smash beats...

How didn't it have mainstream appeal? The nikka was a multiplatinum artist? Da hell is wrong wit y'all? Lol

 

[spliz]

Actually Static wrote most of ginuwine shyt

He didn't write "most" of Ginuwine's shyt. He wrote some of it. Ginuwine said out his own mouth that what a lot of people don't know about him is that he wrote a lot of his own hits and music.