Chloe Bailey rejected style categorization as a Black artist. The actress/singer defined her beef with folks labeling her music as R&B in an interview with NYLON.
“Any music I do will simply and rapidly be categorized as R&B as a result of I’m a Black girl,” Chlöe stated. “If somebody who didn’t have my pores and skin tone made the identical music, it could be within the pop classes. That’s simply the way in which it’s all the time been in life.”
Chlöe admired Beyoncé and the late Whitney Houston for defying such classifications to turn into pop icons. Chlöe cited Houston as one in all her music idols.
“Early on in her profession, when she was doing the large pop information, she obtained quite a lot of flak for that: being informed she wasn’t Black sufficient and wasn’t catering to the bottom that made her,” Chlöe stated relating to Houston. “To see how she persevered and has turn into one of the iconic, legendary artists that we’ve ever seen, exhibits that music has no race, it has no style, it has none of that. It’s only a feeling and it’s a vibration. And that’s why I used to be actually pleased with Beyoncé doing Cowboy Carter as a result of Black folks originated nation music. It’s simply exhibiting that potentialities are limitless.”
Chlöe started her profession as one half of the duo Chloe x Halle together with her sister Halle Bailey. She launched her first solo album In Items in 2023.
