Chlöe Bailey is opening up about her music and why her songs are nonetheless categorized as R&B regardless of venturing into totally different genres.
Bailey shared in a brand new interview that it doesn’t matter what sort of music she makes, her songs will all the time be categorized as R&B and never pop.
“Any music I do will simply and shortly be categorized as R&B as a result of I’m a Black girl,” Bailey mentioned in an interview with Nylon. “If somebody who didn’t have my pores and skin tone made the identical music, it might be within the pop classes. That’s simply the best way it’s all the time been in life.”
Bailey says that Whitney Houston is certainly one of her idols and takes cues from the trail she paved.
“Early on in her profession, when she was doing the large pop information, she obtained numerous flak for that: being informed she wasn’t Black sufficient and wasn’t catering to the bottom that made her,” Bailey says of Houston. “To see how she persevered and has change into one of the crucial iconic, legendary artists that we’ve ever seen, reveals that music has no race, it has no style, it has none of that. It’s only a feeling and it’s a vibration.”
Bailey says that she is “actually proud” of Beyoncé for her nation album Cowboy Carter because it reveals “that prospects are countless.”
The singer says her upcoming second solo album, Hassle in Paradise, is “a coming-of-age celebration of being a girl and having enjoyable, not taking life too critically.”