Every time anyone gets compared to Sade, it's going to get messy on Twitter. In today's episode of people just be talking to talk, Snoh Aalegra found herself thrown into a Sade comparison and the entire ordeal was unnecessary.
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Twitter user, Slicky Williams, wrote "Snoh Aalegra is our Sade" and got ratioed. To get ratioed means that others are dragging in your quote tweets and the ratio between your replies, likes and quote tweets is drastically off.
Several fans chimed in with similar sentiments, saying something in the vein of "don't do this" or "I hate it here." However, it was the extended responses that really drove the reactions home. Starting with writer/editor Britni Danielle who wrote, "Ain't nobody waiting 10+ years for a Snoh album. Sade could sell out stadiums TODAY and her last album was in 2010."
Industry veteran and journalist, Naima Cochrane chimed in with notes on the language of the tweet. She stated, "You could say so many things, the musical child of, from the school of, see the influence of... but it's always 'They're our ___'. Ain't no more James Brown's, Luther's, Janet's, Michael's, Whitney's, Mariah's, Aretha's, Mary's, Sade's, Anita's, etc... Just their influence."
She continued, "...the language to discuss music keeps shrinking to the most mundane. Now it's all comparative." Yet, it was writer Shenequa Golding who summed up all the hoopla perfectly. Golding expressed, "Snoh is a treasure to the R&B landscape. Her voice is sweet and gentle and she oozes femininity and romance. Respectfully, comparing anyone to Helen is setting someone up for failure. Let Snoh be Snoh and allow Helen to continue to be the mind-her-business legend that she is."
Every few days/weeks or so, someone will tweet some controversial nonsense like this initial comparison for likes and responses. Jhené Aiko recently got dragged under the bus in a similar comparison, as though two similar singers can't coexist within the same genre. We're saying all this to say that both Snoh and Sade keep R&B alive without the need for one to be the newer version of the other.
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