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Chlöe Bailey says her music would be considered pop if she wasn’t a Black woman: 'Music has no race, it has no genre, it has none of that.'

Chlöe Bailey says her music would be considered pop if she wasn’t a Black woman: 'Music has no race, it has no genre, it has none of that. It’s just a feeling and it’s a vibration.'

“Any music I do will easily and quickly be categorized as R&B because I’m a Black woman,” Bailey recently told Nylon magazine. Bailey is set to release her sophomore solo album, Trouble in Paradise, which will probably continue the spirit of experimentation and genre-bending from her previous effort, In Pieces. The singer-songwriter-producer then alludes to two other Black women who struggled with being defined by the limitations of genre, Whitney Houston and her own mentor, Beyoncé.

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