Normani: “Why Does Pop Have To Be So White?”

[Here Comes the Pain]

Tell her to do that r&b instead of tryna compete with ariana grande & that camilla chick.

She gotta get acquainted with a black audience.

 

[xCivicx]

Black excellence

Im also tryna break into the pop lane

I been cooking up some stuff

 

[Rockstar Mom]

I really need some music heads to breakdown how and why this shyt happened. B/c when I was growing up black artists were KILLING pop. Hell “Thong Song” was everywhere. “Waterfalls”
“I’ll Make Love To You”
“The Boy Is Mine”

These songs were considered pop?

I considered pop more Samantha Mamba and FeFe Dobson.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

These songs were considered pop?

I considered pop more Samantha Mamba and FeFe Dobson.

They were on Billboard charts for a hella long time. I think the way it once was is that R&B music stood on its own as a force to be reckoned with transcending all charts which made it popular and that sound was unapologetically blk.

But somewhere down the line I don’t know what happened...

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

White pop in 2019 is literally black R&B from the early to mid 00s...


Cacs out here framing shyt, like it's something brand new...

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

I was told there was a reason why Clive made Whitney sing a certain way

We gotta support our artists.

Is this it? The lack of support for our artists? I’m not a scholar of music so I can’t quite describe what I’ve seen in the trends.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Idk but she fine

Tell her to send me a pair of her panties

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

White pop in 2019 is literally black R&B from the early to mid 00s...

Okay THIS! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

She's the baddest singer out

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

Tell her to do that r&b instead of tryna compete with ariana grande & that camilla chick.

She gotta get acquainted with a black audience.

I don’t think anything she has produced has sounded like something competing with those artists.

To me Dancing With A Stranger And Love Lies are pretty unique. Also Waves is classic RnB and Motivation sounds like something a blk girl group from the 2000s would have produced...

I dunno.

 

[TEH]

Idk but she fine

Tell her to send me a pair of her panties

Bet they smell like morning mist, kiwi and fresh cut orange roses

 

[TEH]

I really need some music heads to breakdown how and why this shyt happened. B/c when I was growing up black artists were KILLING pop. Hell “Thong Song” was everywhere. “Waterfalls”
“I’ll Make Love To You”
“The Boy Is Mine”

If like to know too

Why not start a thread on it

 

[The Fade]

Is this it? The lack of support for our artists? I’m not a scholar of music so I can’t quite describe what I’ve seen in the trends.

Sometimes Whitney had to sing "white" for the money

cuz white women/girls buy the most albums

they be the ones that know Migos lyrics word for word too.

Partly why black music gets infiltrated too.

 

[Cynic]

because Beyonce and Rihanna are the immovable objects and unstoppable forces ...

Ask Ciara, Keri Hilson, Tinashe, Ester Dean etc.......

 

[invalid]

Could it be that our music is too risqué? I find myself, especially when I have little ones around or elders, having to turn off the black stations because the music has just gotten too vulgar. What I end up turning on is some white “safe” pop station or some jazz, blues, etc. What R&B artist out is not explicitly singing about sex? What hip hop artist is not talking about sex, drugs, and illegal activities? Sometimes it could be too much and I don’t want the younger ones consuming all of that.

I’m not familiar with Normani. But even the first video you posted is too risqué if I have little ones around and we’re watching an award show and this is her performance.