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We Can't Stop

Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&BElectropop

We Can't Stop is a Contemporary R&B and Electropop act. Their sound grew out of Slick Rick, Rihanna, Kesha, Janet Jackson and Lady Gaga. Those roots explain a lot about how We Can't Stop arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Wrecking Ball and Glory and Gore, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into One Direction, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around We Can't Stop, reaching back through Slick Rick and forward to One Direction. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
We Can't StopSlick RickRihannaKeshaJanet JacksonLady GagaDoug E. FreshFiona AppleRita OraOne DirectionWrecking BallGlory and Gore

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We Can't Stop connections

We Can't Stop grew out of Slick Rick, Rihanna, Kesha and Janet Jackson, shares an orbit with Wrecking Ball and Glory and Gore, went on to shape One Direction. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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