TonyVanDam said:

sosgemini said:

That's a really offensive thing to say.

Not even close. Calling Whitney a "chocolate covered California valley girl from New Jersey" is THE ultimate insult!

Thank you. Hell, Whitney did what most of her contemporaries at the time wish they could have done. Plus to me whenever Whitney sang live she gave her little pop songs a soulful delivery. It was an excellent marriage.

Kool & the Gang

Does singer Pink fit into this category? She basically started out as a r&b/hiphop singer then she goes pop/rock and never went back to her original roots.

1sotrue said:

Does singer Pink fit into this category? She basically started out as a r&b/hiphop singer then she goes pop/rock and never went back to her original roots.

I would argue that on her first album she was forced into being something other than what she really was and that Missundaztood was the first time you heard the "real" Pink. Remember, at that time Linda Perry was basically just a washed up singer. Pink's first album was fairly successful and the safe thing to do would have been to release more of the same. It was a bit of a risk to write most of the album with Perry who only had one hit song and that was in 1993. Then on her next album she collaborated on more than half the tracks with Tim Armstrong from the punk band Rancid, that certainly wasn't a safe, commercial thing to do either.

ElectricRelaxed said:

Kool & the Gang

Ouch, good pick. They were so funky for most of the '70s then that darn song "Celebration" became a massive hit and the funk withered and died.

ElectricRelaxed said:

Kool & the Gang

DAMN! Sad but true. I wouldn't call them the worst but I can't disagree as much as I would like to.