I feel this is especially apparent when involving R&B music. Songs like Blank Space I feel are blatant R&B influenced songs, but nobody calls that out. Yet, if someone like Rihanna were to be singing that song, people would immediately label it R&B. Same for those 80s ballads sung by black artists like Whitney. On wiki they're all labeled as R&B, but if a white singer were to be singing it, it would have been labeled as Pop or Soul or something... Perhaps it wouldn't justĀ ha