{"id":289004,"date":"2020-03-04T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1128228"},"modified":"2020-03-04T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T00:44:42","slug":"tinashe-opens-up-about-being-pitted-against-every-black-girl-in-the-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/tinashe-opens-up-about-being-pitted-against-every-black-girl-in-the-music-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinashe Opens Up About Being Pitted Against ”Every Black Girl” in the Music Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Save room for us”… that’s all Tinashe<\/a><\/strong> is asking for.<\/p>\n

2020 is already proving to be one for the books for the 27-year-old star, who is getting ready to kickoff her highly-anticipated Tour For You<\/em> tour in April.<\/p>\n

But before she hits the stage to perform her latest tunes, the “All Hands on Deck” songstress recently sat down with host Justin Sylvester<\/a><\/strong> on E!’s digital series Just the Sip <\/em>to chat about everything from her music evolution to her Ben Simmons<\/strong> breakup to being pitted against almost every “black woman” in the industry.<\/p>\n

As Tinashe put it during her interview, “This is getting really deep right now.”<\/p>\n

While the songstress spoke about the difficult period in her career, where she had to “pause” on everything and start with a “clean slate,” she also touched on one of the more challenging things she experienced. She opened up about being compared to other female R&B artists.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“Everyone… every black girl,” Tinashe shared after being asked who she’s been pitted against.<\/p>\n

She said, “First, it was the superstars, which was like, ‘Whoa… How are you guys gonna pit me against these people?’ It would be: ‘Tinashe, the new Aaliyah<\/strong>. Tinahe, the next Beyonc\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>.’ I would be like, ‘You guys are setting me up left and right. These people are icons.'”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“So it started off there, and then it was everyone,” she continued. “I literally could name six different people at one point that has been Tinashe versus… Jhen\u00e9<\/strong> [Aiko<\/strong>], versus FKA twigs<\/a><\/strong>… Tinashe versus all the R&B girls…Cassie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“All the ‘whisper’ singers,” she added.<\/p>\n

It’s not just those in the industry doing this to Tinashe, as she pointed that her fans have made snarky comments comparing her to other female musicians.<\/p>\n

“I think fans do it all the time,” she said when asked if someone has ever taken it to the next level. “Actually, I realized that by meeting people in person. I would meet someone and they would be like, ‘Hey, I really love your music but I’m actually a huge Kehlani<\/strong> fan.'”<\/p>\n

“Just the fact that you said that is very strange,” she expressed. “You’re putting it out as if you can’t be a fan of me because you’re a fan of her, which is very, very strange.”<\/p>\n

Despite hearing these remarks, Tinashe is at the top of her game and doing things on her own terms.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Just last November, the 27-year-old star released her fourth studio album, Songs For You<\/em>. Moreover, she released it independently under her own label, Tinashe Music Inc.<\/p>\n

Now that’s a flex.<\/p>\n

“We gonna get this right,” she shared about having to restart everything in her life, including her label, management, glam squad, lawyers and more.<\/p>\n

If anything, her latest album hits a chord for an important reason: “It means everything because this is me.”<\/p>\n

“Before, I was learning… kinda coming up in the game, finding my way,” she explained of starting out with her old team. “I found myself in a place where I needed to step back, find pause in my life, really reinvent and become the artist that I felt I truly was, am.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“I felt like I was coasting through my career, going through the motions,” she added. “Instead of doing what I really, really wanted.”<\/p>\n

However, it’s clear she’s calling the shots and marching to the beat of her own drum.<\/p>\n

“For me, taking that risk [to part ways with everyone] felt like a better option than to continue on what I was doing before,” she said. “It felt like a spiritual, instinctual calling… this is the perfect opportunity, go bitch!”<\/p>\n

To listen to Tinashe’s full interview where she talks about Simmons, the wildest rumors she’s read about herself and more, watch our video above!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“Save room for us”… that’s all Tinashe is asking for. 2020 is already proving to be one for the books for the 27-year-old star, who is getting ready to kickoff her highly-anticipated Tour For You tour in April. But before she hits the stage to perform her latest tunes, the “All Hands on Deck” songstress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-27 16:19:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}