![]() And, yeah, you read that “Solange” right. Beyoncé, Ashanti, Mya, Rihanna, Ciara, Cassie, Christina Milian, Teairra Mari, Solange, Keyshia Cole, Brooke Valentine, and Amerie - among others - have all fallen prey to blandness and predictability at one time or another. Setting aside physical appearance, since they do at least look noticeably different, it’s tough to listen to a song and distinguish one diva, or female version of a hustler, from another. ![]() But so many of our ladies inhabiting the “diva” strain of pop and R&B have an interchangeable sound. Oh sure, you can argue that nobody sounds like Sasha Fierce, and maybe Beyoncé has been, as she says in “Diva”, the “hottest chick in this game for a minute”. Unfortunately, they all sound alike! If you’ve heard one dancing “diva”, you can almost say you’ve heard them all. For every male “pimp”, “playa”, “boss”, and “mack”, there is presumably a lady of equivalent measure. The problem is that female hustlers seem to be just as anonymous and nondescript as their male counterparts. If I put aside the minor detail of why the word “hustler” has to be broken down into male and female versions, I can kind of dig the overall sentiment. When I hear Beyoncé - excuse me, “Sasha Fierce” - say “a diva is a female version of a hustler” over a bubbling stutter-stepping background, I’m inclined to believe her. ![]()
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