Chloe Bailey Says Her Music Is Heavily Categorized As Being R&B Because She Is A Black Woman!

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Cousins! Throughout Chloe Bailey’s career, she has often exhibited the notion of an artist who is unafraid to experiment with different sounds, concepts, and visuals in an efforts of providing fans with the ultimate experience. However, Chloe has recently expressed that despite her efforts of creating limitless art, she can’t help but feel that her music is often categorized by her skin tone and not it’s actual sound.

While speaking in an interview for the cover of Nylon magazine, Chlöe spoke on her feelings about automatically being labeled as an R&B artist.

“Any music I do will easily and quickly be categorized as R&B because I’m a Black woman,” said Chlöe “If someone who didn’t have my skin tone made the same music, it would be in the pop categories. That’s just the way it’s always been in life.”

Further in the interview, Chlöe compared the early stages of both Whitney Houston and Beyonce’s careers and the difficulties they faced on going up against diversity in the music industry.

“Early on in her career, when she was doing the big pop records, she got a lot of flak for that: being told she wasn’t Black enough and wasn’t catering to the base that made her,” said the former Grown-ish cast member.

“To see how she persevered and has become one of the most iconic, legendary artists that we’ve ever seen, shows that music has no race, it has no genre, it has none of that. It’s just a feeling and it’s a vibration.”

Chlöe went on to share why she is proud of the work that Beyonce did by releasing ‘Cowboy Carter’

“Black people originated country music. It’s just showing that possibilities are endless.”

The 25-year-old shares that she is going to continue to be optimistic as she continues to navigate throughout the entertainment industry as she is no stranger to her music being misunderstood.

“What I kind of love about my art is that it sneaks up on you. When In Pieces came out, not many people really got it. But now a year later, people are like, ‘Oh, it’s genius! It’s beautiful! It’s amazing!’ And if you think about it, that’s how it has been with me and my sister’s previous work as well. No one ever gets it when it first comes out.”

Chlöe’s second solo album Trouble In Paradise is expected to drop sometime this summer.

While comparing ‘In Pieces’ and her sophomore album Chlöe tells Nylon, “If In Pieces was about “appreciating the sadness of heartache,” then Trouble In Paradise is the opposite, where it’s “a coming-of-age celebration of being a woman and having fun, not taking life too seriously.”