Frank Kogan

To put Sabina's comments in better perspective, she was responding to askbask's contention that E.via is an outsider. I think we'd be right to say that Cassie isn't fundamentally an outsider, even if she's not being welcomed onto the charts anymore. It would be hard to claim that Cassie is doing something categorically different from the rest of r&b; rather, she somehow she has something unique in her recessive somethingness. Maybe I wasn't being fair to the intent of Sabina's comment, but for me the issue isn't just that E'via's on an independent label and wasn't coached up through the rookie leagues; rather, she's coming from a whole other sensibility from Korean idol pop - if I'm reading E.via more or less correctly; so I'm disagreeing with Sabina, though not sure I'm right in doing so.

Btw, the performer I'm definitely getting a Cassie feeling from these days is Dev; she's bringing a Cassie feel to Ke$ha party skank vibe. (I could imagine Lex blowing a gasket if he were to read that sentence. But my guess is that Lex'll be down with Dev, and get what I mean by the Cassie comparison: a massively sexy and slightly imperious sense of absence in both of them, despite Dev's club-urchin aura.)