does a Freestyle artist have to sing only Freestyle music?

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To Jason

Lil' Suzy's last album didn't have that much Freestyle. Remember Sandee's Love Desire and Lisette Melendez' Goody Goody or Sweet Sensations' Love Child and If Wishes Came True.
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JUST MY 2 CENTS:

That is one of the many reasons Lil' Suzy's PARADISE album SUCKED big time!!!

Sandé's LOVE DESIRE is Freestyle, just very slow tempoed...

GOODY GOODY was a very weak attempt at Pop/R&B from Lisette Melendez

Sweet Senasation's LOVE CHILD was a Freestyle remake of the motown classic. Not bad in my opinion...IF WISHES CAME TRUE happens to be a great slow jam. It can't even be compared to Freestyle...
 
i think music is music... whether its elvis or jay-z or dmx or franky sinatra... its music and we love music... ever hear of jay and the americans???? they were popular in the 50s... and 60s... they sung a couple songs that sound like freestyle....so are they?????????????
nope... all because of what? GENRES.... dumb dumb dumb...
wurd
~Desejo
 
Rhoq said:

That is one of the many reasons Lil' Suzy's PARADISE album SUCKED big time!!!
Sandée's LOVE DESIRE is Freestyle, just very slow tempoed...
GOODY GOODY was a very weak attempt at Pop/R&B from Lisette Melendez
Sweet Senasation's LOVE CHILD was a Freestyle remake of the motown classic.
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Love Desire was an attempt to jump on the Soul II Soul bandwagon. It doesn't sound remotely like FS in my opinion.

Love Child didn't have a Freestyle beat. The song was so discoey and poppish, like Rick Astley.

I liked Goody Goody. 😀

Three good songs is enough for me to tolerate a non-comp, non-Greatest hits album by a Freestyle artist, or any artist for that matter. So, Paradise was okay.

Desejo, what did jay and the americans sing? Freestyle sounds in the 50's? For real???
 
Jason...

I will agree that Sandée's LOVE DESIRE borrowed from the Soul II Soul sound (Jazzy B was ahead of his time), but if ou listen more closely (especialy the keyboards) you will hear the Freestyle influence (courtesy of producer Tony Moran)...

You are right that LOVE CHILD didn't have a traditional Freestyle beat (it was more disco/house) but everything else about the song was Freestyle. I used to be the same way - if it didn't have a Freestyle beat, it just wasn't Freestyle.

Lisette needs to stick with Freestyle.

I really thought that the last Lil' Suzy album was a huge disappointment. I had already begun not to like her music and when this album was released it just really turned me of to Lil' Suzy completely.
 
"I really thought that the last Lil' Suzy album was a huge disappointment. I had already begun not to like her music and when this album was released it just really turned me of to Lil' Suzy completely." --Rhoq

Hey Rhoq: To tell you the truth, I was a little disappointed myself. But I thought that "Can't Get You Out Of My Mind" & "You're The Only One", being two of the better Progressive Freestyle songs I know, balanced out the yuckky tracks. "I Still Love You" is a nice non-FS track. The Freestyle remix of that song actually sucks. "Promise Me" and "Now & Forever" are 2 older songs from Lil' Suzy that I like.
 
To answer your question...No. To me Lil' Suzy's PARADISE was a pop album.

She hooked up with Adam Marano and turned out 2 progressive Freestyle songs so that she could get with the times and jump on that bandwagon (that's my nice way of calling her a sell-out) and the other 2 Freestyle songs were the typical Cheese-Style tracks that Victor Franco has been producing lately. The rest of the album contained euro, r&b and whatever. Regardless, it was just a huge disappointment to me.

Jason - I actually prefer the Slammin' Sam remix of "I STILL LOVE YOU". I like it a lot better than the album version.
 
regardin the "paradise" cd of lil suzy .. i LOVEEEE "the way I love YOu" .. das defintly a freestyle track on da slower side but still freestyle to me =)
 
i didn't like the freestyle mixes of "i still love you" very much either - but i love me some of 'denny tsettos & anthony acid's anthem' remix!!! they did a FABulous job with the song😀
 
free style???

I have been waiting to see someone ask this question.I think that if u are good at what u do u can do whatever u want.But u gotta be smart about what u put on ur albumz.For instance if u have a freestyle fan base then u cater to them by making at least 70 percent of your album freestyle and maybe putting a ballad and a pop or house(trance or whateva) track.If u sing other types of music like myself,then u can just make other albums catering to each genre.I sing alternative,ballads,pop,and I rap(not that marky mark ish,strictly thuggin)
I would never go as far as putting my alternative rock tracks on my freestyle album....mayn just the thought gives me goosebumps hahahahaha what a terrible thought>>>>
anyways,good ol fashioned common sense will tell ya what to do with ur album especially if u are a writer.
good luck
kennyfreestyle

ps I actually named my self 'kenny---free----style--" to signify my ability to cross genres in a single bound lol

www.mp3.com/kennymoulton (alternative rock/hip hop)
just in case ur curious.😎
 
big ups to KF...

I agree with the "NO's". Somebody's gotta make SOME MONEY. Look at the other kinds of music for example: POP, u dont see Michael Jackson, Nsync, Britney etc working at no car wash...HIP HOP: well, we get the picture...
 
Jason says:
Desejo, what did jay and the americans sing? Freestyle sounds in the 50's? For real???
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Jay in the Americans were popular for their song called... Come a little bit closer, this magic moment, and Only in America... Both on their Album called Come a Little bit Closer...

But the freestyle-like sounds were the fact that they were all love songs and were white guys that sang a lot of their songs in spanish... I think between those songs and disco... brought a lot of the freestyle to where it was in the late 70s early 80s.... then it got its own "genre" (God knows I hate genres... its like evrything needs a category these days and its all MUSIC).... in the mid 80s....

wurd
~Desejo
 
Lil' Suzy

Rhoq said:
To answer your question...No. To me Lil' Suzy's PARADISE was a pop album..She hooked up with Adam Marano and turned out 2 progressive Freestyle songs so that she could get with the times and jump on that bandwagon (that's my nice way of calling her a sell-out) and the other 2 Freestyle songs were the typical Cheese-Style tracks that Victor Franco has been producing lately...Jason - I actually prefer the Slammin' Sam remix of "I STILL LOVE YOU". I like it a lot better than the album version.
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"Can't Get You (RMX)" & "You're The Only One" are masterpieces. I love it when producers are creative enough to use beats other than Planet Rock in their progressive songs. (Hey, and sampling is not very creative to begin with.) "You're The Only One" uses a Kraftwerk sample. Very nice. The "Can't Get You (Original)" & the "I Still Love You (RMX)" suck. My opinion.

Hey Rhoq, is Rockell's latest album Freestyle to you?
 
MAJORITY of the freestyle fans would like to hear more freestyle at least 85% of the songs are freestyle and have some slow jams or housy or pop track, but usually people tends to fast forward the pop/ house track and go to the next freestyle track.
I really like the SYNTHIA FIGUEROA FULL LENGTH because majority was freestyle and there was a slammin R&B track " All the litle things" and some dance stuff.. so it works well. Yhe ELISSA full length is the same well, majority was freestyle and a few latin/dance tracks... So yes more freestyle but a few variety also.
 
elissa's full length is all freestyle - except for the bonus pop mix of "i can't stop"
 
No

Addressing the original question:

Freestyle artists should make whatever makes money. They need to evolve to survive, too. But if they make R&B, Pop, other Dance, or Country (eg. Shana) songs, it should come from their hearts. No artist should sing any songs that they don't like. If they do, then they sell-out themselves.
 
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