>>The reality is her image is SO SUCCINCT and strong. Her
>music
>>doesn't compare yet. It definitely could though. It's not
>>like I am counting her out. I think the industry benefits
>>from her being in it.
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>She'll never be able to reach her potential if she is
>constantly in this struggle to qualify her image. Each time
>there's the type of pushback on her image that you're giving
>here, the qualifying her in the makings of a star, it makes
>her go back in and have to restate again why she's doing this
>rather than just doing it. The laboriousness of this back and
>forth IMO is stifiling her. It's not preventing her from
>still making great songs but it is keeping her form her full
>musical potential, and that IMO has nothing to do with the
>feasibility of her pop success. And in fact going for that
>would likely do more to stifle it.
>
>You're talking pop potential, I'm talking musical potential.
>Her musical potential is continuing to grow, but her
>relationship with the pop potential is her struggle as an
>artist.
>
>Wishing her all the best though, and am appreciative for what
>she's given on this one.
>

She is in the NBA not at the Rucker.. She has to play NBA ball or she will be benched.

There are only 2 ways this game works.. you either make great songs by yourself OR you get with people who can help you realize them. Nothing I ask will "take away" from anything she is doing. Her songs could and should be better.

My issues with her image have more to do with a lack of 'connection' I think she has on the songs. She "performs" her songs but doesn't sing them with a connection. Same thing with the crawl...

Take for instance Frank Ocean. I think his most important strength isn't the performance but the way his singing endears the listener. You 'feel' him.


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>"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."