Is Tinashe Karma's Answer to Beyonce?

Hmmm, I don't know. I heard one of her songs and saw the video. I can't remember the name o even the tune of the song, I saw it last week sometime. It was pretty dull. She seems very cookie cutter. Like they took the basic equation to make a "black" pop star and made her. But I do like her name, I don't know where she's from but those names are African. Tinashe in many languages means "we have a king or a king is born"
Quite fitting to dethrone the old "king". but lemme go give her a second listen.

Okay I'm reading up on her, and her. Her dad is Zimbabwean and she speaks Shona fluently (one of the languages of Zimbabwe). She gets my vote for that alone. I have Zimbabwean roots and it's a big deal when a child who is not raised in Zim can speak Shona. Big Deal. So I like her for that.
I've listened to three songs so far. I'm still not convinced. I think she has yet to find her image. She seems to be throwing everything at it right now, I'm getting Aaliyah, Jlo, Bey, and dashes of Rih.
If she goes the brainless materialistic route then she won't make it. She has the benefit of being biracial (sadly it is a benefit, ask Alicia) so her cross over appeal is not so hard to muster. But if she goes all out hood she's going to lose her chance to get the "all important" white fan base.

She seems a little too oversexualised too soon. Lik she's not playing her best cards. if she can sing and play instruments what's she doing with dubstep beats n stuff like that.

I'm 5 songs in now and still have not heard anything in her voice to make me think she's "the next supreme".

Looks wise, she looks like every other girl out there trying to make it. Very generic. but she youth on her side. She has already gotten a boob job. not a good one, she's got a tiny frame and is quite lean, those boobs are too big for her, she should have seen rihanna's surgeon.

8 songs and 1 commercial in:
For a 22 year old, when she speaks she seems like she trying to cater to angsty teenagers. but everyone is trying to do that nowadays, all those "be yourself, you're beautiful, no jdgement, I'm just like you," type speeches that celebs like to give to no one in particular. It seems like Tinashe is just rattling of the rhetoric, but that was an ad. and i imagine it's scripted.

For a professional dancer, she's very messy with her footwork and her moves aren't very original, nothing you can't see at the club.

i think she needs better management and a better team overall.

Her greatest asset is her greatest weakness IMO. She is blan and generic. This is good becuase this means she can be molded into anything TPTb want her to be. This is bad because she seems to lack star power. but then again star power nowadays is made of lacefronts, lighting and photoshop so it mgiht not matter.

One interview in:
She doesn't seem to want to rep Zim at all. She's happy to be claimed by kentucky and LA but makes a funny face about Zimbabwe:

However everything I said above is irrelevent. If she is the chosen one, she will succeed.
If a star could made out of the lier and the fraud that is Beyonce, then anyone can be made a star.

As many songs as I can take in:
I've gone from being a little unimformed and unimpressed to being better informed and still unimpressed.

But with some good marketing and perception management, she'll be aight, because the same people who latched onto Beyonce will still need a void to fill. and there'll be a new generation of stan types to gather.

At the end of the day, like I said. If they want her to be it, she will be it.

I don't know. Last month I watched about 30 seconds of one of her videos and I wasn't impressed. We do however live in an age where mediocrity is hailed as greatness so you never know.
I personally see Rihanna as Beyonce's karma. A below average singer who may or may not be sleeping with her husband, can't dance and is a lazy performer is slaying Beyonce right now.
She and her fans would be able to accept it easier if a more talented artist was getting the best of her but the fact that it's Rihanna of all people is eating them up....I'm enjoying this.

Well. Everyone has their own opinion. But she is far from mediocre. The skills she enhanced is enough to compete with rhi and bey. And lately she did improve her vocals. And she sang at a dodgers game. She always in tact with her work. And what i also love about her is that she never beefs with anyone on social media

Tinashe - Who Am I Working For? (Official Video):  If she sells out it ..u can't say she  didn't know what she was getting herself into 

Honestly Whitney Mariah were known for their unique vocal ranges. But in terms of Quality writing very few singers can do that. And Tinashe's writing is impeccable. Her mainstream songs doesn't showcase that because of her record label. All her mixtapes are Amazing. I would love for her to work with Emile sande or Sade

Sometimes an Artist can have it all , be a triple threat and just still don't have IT! This applies to aTanashe...sorry but it appears to be so....

Mark my words, Beyonce is looking at this chick and secretly seething, hoping she won't rise.

I didn't mean this post as a critique if Tinashe, but moreso a nod to someone whom I think has Beys attention already. The Chanel show was a slight hint...

I think it depends on the person or listener. As i mentioned she may not have Whitney Mariah range. But people love her because of how unique she is and the African references she makes on her music. I listened to all of her mixtapes and i see why fans love her. You don't see alot of mainstream girls writing, producing, and directing their videos like her. I only wish her mixtapes were actual Albums.Because if it were people would be like "2 on has nothing on either of earlier work." Aquarius overall was nice. But her earlier work sounds like nothing out there.

Finally, an artist that actually gets it. And by the way her remake of Kool and the Gang "Summers" was freaking impeccable. She sounds like a sweet angel. To me she does have "it" because she is very hands on and doesn't sit around and for people to tell her what to do. And doesn't throw shade at artists and steal their work. Even if her label says "no" to funding one of her videos she still does does reguardless

She is a go-getter thats why fans adore her

I'm on youtube now looking at her other videos and strangely there are ALOT of nasty hateful comments/slurs and stans insulting Tinashe and comparing her to Bey. Its possible Beyonce is subtly influencing it but at the same time alot of her stans are ignorant without her influence

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What did she steal from who?

One thing Beyonce did kinda "create" was the "look". Before Beyonce and her blonde lacefronts came along black singers had all sorts of looks. Monica had short hair, Brandy rocked braids , India Arie rocked dreads, Whitney had shortish hair, Mariah had her own look. Ashanti favored cornrows. Even Beyonce used to rock lots of different looks back in the day.
Then at some point it became one look: Big voluminous lace front in non-black colours, light bright skin, teeny tiny nose, spider-leg eyelashes.

And ever since then every black female singer except rihanna, sticks very close to this formula.

Describe Beyonce: Big lacefront, light bright skin, small nose, fake lashes.

Describe Ciara: Big lacefront, light bright skin, small nose, fake lashes.

Describe Tamar:Big lacefront, light bright skin, small nose, fake lashes.

Describe Mariah:Big lacefront, light bright skin, small nose, fake lashes.

Describe Nick Minaj:Big lacefront, light bright skin, small nose, fake lashes.

Describe Rita Ora: Big lacefront, light bright skin, small nose, fake lashes.

Describe Tinashe: Big lacefront, light bright skin, small nose, fake lashes.

U can't deny that despite what ever brief trends appear (like the awful bob phase we are just coming out of) this is the overiding look for a black female artist. I think part of the reason Rihanna has crossover appeal is the she is more fluid with her looks and doesn't always wear the black singer uniform.

If you were to describe white singers you'd get all sorts of descriptions from P!nk to Gaga to Lourde to Adele to Iggy to Miley and on and on.

But back to Tinashe, she taking a heavily used road.

I really don't think she created the 'look'. Beybot stole that look from Faith Evans, Mary J Blige, May Brim Hylton (Puff's 1st baby mama - forgot her name but its something like that). They were rocking that look hard in the 90's. Guess she needed a look and thats what she went with. Thing is Beybot dragged the look across decades n rocks it up until this day, while Fatih, Mary et al moved it on YEARS ago!

Just so u guys know, Tinashe has her own hair so she doesn't have to wear lace fronts. I believe she did have a nose job but that's the first thing all new singer's do next to a boob job.  I'm 41 and her music appeals to me.  She's not meant to become bigger than beyodel or anyone else. She's carved her own lane and she's just fine where she is. She's not pressed like some of her peers to be the "only one". If I'm one of the few who likes her..so be it.. it beats anything beskany has ever recorded her entire career. . Like Tim Gunn would say "carry on"..