Who is the Viral New Singer who Sounds Like Young Rihanna?

Coming off the heels of her new project, ‘4 PM in the Ville’, Genia leads her team to make her voice and vision soar. Can they pull it off? Or will she be reduced to a cardboard comparison?

Alexander Taurozzi
7 min readJul 3, 2023
‘B*tch, I’m the bomb, like tick tick’ — Photo Credits: @geniawashere

EDITOR’S NOTE: At the end of this article, I wrote that Genia’s project 4pm in the ville is not worth your time. Did you know that even I can be wrong sometimes? Give the article a read, listen to the project, and draw your own conclusions. Cus she is a talent you won’t want to miss out on.

Open to the desert. The only sounds are the wind and the gentle clanging of a high hat. Sitting in front of a garage, the VictorVillains band hides in the shade. Dressed in all leather, a lone singer sits on a stool and begins to sing Janet Jackson’s ‘Let’s Wait a While’. Her voice is beautiful.

Her airy voice transports you to another world, and you are enthralled by her vocals and the live instrumentation that fills the air. It’s lush, it’s sensitive and full of emotion; you think, ‘What an angelic singer.’

Wait, is she a rapper-singer? Or is she a singer? Both, but also mainly just a singer — this is Genia.

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Alexander Taurozzi

Culture Writer | words found in @Maisonneuve @MRB @LensofYashu