gagzus 15,930 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 It wouldn't make a difference bc she'd still be the same artist & person, bey, nicki & rihanna are only more popular bc they are generic, worry about being conventionally beautiful all the time & don't have as much creative input as Gaga. Plus a lot of their songs (especially bey & rihanna) use the same subjects & sounds over and over again with almost little to no new substance. Aka perfect music to only enjoy the flow & beat of instead of thinking Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GagaUnderYou 4,992 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 nah more popular that she's white and american Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didymus 34,380 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Impossible. Her whole first era (which skyrocketed her into fame) was based on being (and simultaneously parodying) the perfect white female pop star. That + the fact that her vocal style probably wouldn't have fit her usual pop style (I can imagine Bad Romance though) makes it very unlikely to me tbh. But who knows tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester 6,314 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Well when I first heard Just Dance I thought it was an African American singing so Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester 6,314 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Rihanna isn't black though, she's from Barbados. She can say n*gga and survive so I'd say she's considered black Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpinkenergy 1,015 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Certainly not, think to her debut image in Poker Face/Just Dance when she was that quirky pretty blonde girl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo 327 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Sure You tried it heifer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HausOfMark 4,277 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Sure This -Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robotboy 1,700 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 probably more popular. Remember that you are unique. Like everyone else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yanko 9,860 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 tbh no Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monstereo 1,232 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Gaga IS black though and Russian, English, Parisian, Italian, Asian, Kompai, Indian, Indonesian, latin american, Bangkok, Australia, Malaysia, Sweden, Finland, Norway, etc etc shes a gypsy gypsy gpsy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Woodson 234 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Rihanna isn't black though, she's from Barbados. Is she white then?? lol, C'mon wake up... Just because she's from Barbados doesn't mean that she's not black. Her skin complexion/color is dark, So therefore she's black. Her ancestry is African just like any other black person regardless of where there from. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Woodson 234 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 She can say n*gga and survive so I'd say she's considered black Last time I checked Rihanna is indeed black. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrawberryBlond 14,873 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Probably, yes. Its long been assumed that blacks don't make pop and definitely not electronic music, so she could have had considerable trouble breaking in. You could say that Nicki Minaj had electro pop hits. Yes, because...she was copying Gaga at the time, copying a trend made popular by a white person. I doubt a black girl could have made electro pop popular. There's this feeling of "black person = urban artist" in music meaning that even when they make a full on pop album, they'll still get labelled as urban. There's some blacks like Rihanna and Beyonce who make a mix of urban and pop, so it can be difficult to class them in either category. I find it especially hard to class Rihanna as pop anymore ever since her last album and definitely not now. Even the Grammys were nominating her under Best Urban Contemporary even though they've always put her under pop before. And that's another thing - categorising black artists who make a mix of pop and urban proves difficult at these awards. I partly think this is the reason why Roman Reloaded didn't get any Grammy nominations because its genres were quite literally 50/50. I think a record has to be about 65% on one side to determine what genre to put it in. With no crossover categories, it was an impossible album to categorise, so it was decided not to nominate it at all.Speaking of which, Adele was apparently unhappy with being nominated in the pop category for 21 and felt that she should have been in the RnB category. Now, I disagree because her album is clearly neo soul. But there isn't a soul category. In that case, yeah, she was more suited to RnB as there is an RnB song on there (He Won't Go) and the album definitely feels more RnB than pop. It always annoys me when people refer to Adele as a pop girl. And I think it's all because she's white. If she were black, she would have totally got put into RnB and she probably wouldn't be thought of as a pop girl and regarded as urban. So, I think it works both ways. Its long been accepted that whites don't make true soul/RnB music but apparently all black singers do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quartz 12,535 Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Even if Rihanna is basically quite pop already, you can't really imagine her get the Queen of Pop title do you? I can't Wow, I can't imagine a black Gaga. Does this make me racist???? Inside, we are really made the same. 🕊 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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