Chloe Bailey, a well-known American singer and actress, expressed frustration with racism in the music industry.
She highlighted that black artists often get pigeonholed into specific genres like R&B, while white singers are more readily labeled as mainstream pop stars.
In her interview with Nylon, she pointed out that her music is categorized as R&B simply because she is black, suggesting
that if a white artist performed the same style, it would likely be labeled as pop.
“Any music I do will easily and quickly be categorized as R&B because I’m a black woman. 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,” she said.
The singer added that music has “no race, it has no genre, it has none of that. It’s just a feeling and it’s a vibration.”