Pia Toscano Quotes

In general, I love dance-pop music with some soul and a dash of R&B.

Coming from an R&B background, I was like, 'I'm gonna make slow jams.'

I would say our sound is soul pop.

I want to do more urban R&B with a little bit of pop, but not much. I want to have that soulful kind of side of me come out.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.

Girls Aloud had a style of music, so you come together and work as a group.

I want to keep the same kinda vibe where we've got the dance element and hip-hop. I'm going to be singing a lot more, and I want to write more heartfelt songs.

I like to sing R&B slow jams. It's always been my thing.

As much my music is dance music, it is also pop.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

I definitely want to put out and album, kind of like a Kelly Clarkson vibe: a soulful voice with a pop rock background. I think it's something that I've always loved and always loved to perform. So that's the kind of album that I'd like to put out.

The TLC sound! That's what's so awesome - we have our own sound.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.

I wouldn't do a whole pop album. But I would do a musical.

If you take a song like 'We Will, We Will Rock You,' 'You got blood on your face... ' - he's rhyming on that! And if you take the lyrics out of that song, you get a hip-hop beat. It's a rock song, though. So it's not out of my element for me to get with Black Lips.

I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.

You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it's more in tune with jazz arrangements. It's very different. It's not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums.

I really like R&B more than rap.