OneMoGen

Here to unite all the lambs of the world! 🐑🦋 Also stanning Shakira, Britney, MJ, Janet, Shania, Gaga and Kylie hard.

[Mariah Carey Spotify @SpotifyMimi]

#MariahCarey has crossed over 1 BILLION streams on Spotify in 2026 (all credits)!

[Pakechii @pakechii]

Es que no pienso discutir con un fandom que no distingue que el álbum que les entregaron no tiene mi un instrumento tocado en un estudio de grabación en vivo, todo fue hecho en Ableton, suena de baja calidad, super plano y aún así las ancianas se sienten melomanas con sus viniles 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🎪

[Joseph Mora @PapiNCali]

This looks spectacularly tone-deaf when you remember what ESSENCE actually represents.

ESSENCE describes itself as a publication where “Black Women Come First,” founded in 1970 specifically because Black women were being ignored and marginalized by mainstream American media. Its own history describes the magazine as part of a tradition of Black media created to give Black culture and Black women a space of their own. (Essence)

Now apparently its “Greatest R&B Songs of All Time” list crowns Madonna’s Take a Bow at No. 1?

Seriously?

R&B is a genre overwhelmingly created and developed by Black American musicians, growing out of blues, jazz, gospel and other Black musical traditions. Madonna absolutely made an R&B-influenced record with Take a Bow, and Babyface's writing, production and vocals are central to that record. Nobody needs to erase Madonna's contribution to acknowledge the rather enormous elephant tap-dancing through the room.

But the greatest R&B song of ALL TIME?

Above Aretha Franklin?
Above Stevie Wonder?
Above Marvin Gaye?
Above Prince?
Above Whitney Houston?
Above Janet Jackson?
Above Luther Vandross?
Above Mary J. Blige?

That's where this stops being merely an unusual music opinion and becomes an optics catastrophe.
And before somebody inevitably screams, “So white people can't make R&B?” Nobody said that. Musical genres aren't segregated drinking fountains. White artists can make R&B, Black artists can make rock, and musicians have exchanged influences forever.
The issue is historical context and institutional recognition.

Black musicians spent generations creating genres only to watch the mainstream music business repeatedly elevate white performers who adopted those sounds. So when ESSENCE, a publication literally founded to center Black voices, declares a white pop superstar's R&B crossover the greatest R&B song ever recorded, you're practically writing the parody yourself.

And imagine reversing the premise. Create a publication devoted specifically to celebrating white cultural achievement, publish “The 50 Greatest White Rock Songs Ever,” and put a Black artist at No. 1. People would immediately start interrogating what the category even means.

That's precisely why this ranking deserves scrutiny.
Madonna made a beautiful record. Take a Bow was also a massive Billboard hit. Neither fact magically makes it the definitive pinnacle of an entire Black-rooted musical tradition.

Babyface must be somewhere staring at this list thinking, “Apparently I helped Madonna conquer R&B too.”

Sometimes representation discourse becomes complicated.

This isn't one of those times.

[Erisa | fan account @thegoldeneri]

See what happens when Madonna’s whole fanbase comes together to discredit Michael Jackson instead of streaming her album?

I have never seen a fanbase viciously attack another artist while they get a new album..

[RapTV @Rap]

Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller' is set to surpass 2 BILLION Spotify streams in 2026 within the next week‼️

The album has earned 1.94B streams this year and is currently averaging over 9M daily 📈

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@PriscillaPetra1 @FarrisFlagg @its_Rockel_ @low_anti @karmenpiper3 @jlosghostsinger @cam @Madonna @JLo In his book, Madonna’s brother Christopher admits that Madonna couldn't stand her. He recalled a party where Madonna literally told everyone to turn their backs on her as soon as she arrived. Poor Chris was forced to befriend her instead! 🤣

[Pop Fusion HQ @PopFusionHQ]

Highest certified female artists of all-time worldwide (updated):

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@pollthecrowds @tomlloyd1989 ‘Don’t Forget about Us.’

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@pollthecrowds @Emaaelias Mariah of course

[PopMatters @PopMatters]

In creating a sequel to a revival album, Madonna’s 'Confessions II' reinforces the notion that the best we can hope for from our pop matriarchs is nostalgia. https://t.co/6GnglqzA1U

[tabloid junkie 🌊 @theplacehotelly]

Whenever Madonna fans get weird on the tl about MJ I just check Billboard. 😭 They’re more tapped in to him than I am.

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@Quote31490249 1. Dangerous
2. Thriller
3. Invincible
4. Bad
5. Off the Wall
6. HIStory
7. Forever Michael
8. Blood on the Dance Floor
9. Got to Be There
10. Ben
11. Music & Me

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@iamjonnyharvey @Provokatov Literally the same interview, but this time I heard “fan of Mariah?” better.

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@iamjonnyharvey @Provokatov As someone who has been following them both for nearly 30 years, I never saw that video. Can you share if you find it?

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@iamjonnyharvey @Provokatov If you mean this one, I believe she is asked “Are you playing Mariah?” Can’t really hear the “fan” part.

https://t.co/KIBJorhoKK

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@iamjonnyharvey @Provokatov Didn’t she just say she liked her record?

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@pollthecrowds Shania

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@music__data @Thelambilyloung @MariahCarey Amazing for a song that wasn’t even released there!

[OneMoGen @flytomcdaydream]

@xlandcharts Deserves it. Her best since “Up!”