Are you serious right now?

A musical icon is a representation of a genre or a type of music or an involvement/evolution. Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is an icon for the Civil Rights movement.

"So what genre do Whitney Huston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion represent???? Aren’t they LEGENDS????"

Mariah, Celine, and Whitney are legends and icons because they represent the "big-voiced diva" movement of the 90s and a transcending genre blend of R&B inspired vocalists (Mariah); gospel influenced pop blend (Whitney), and a traditional adult contemporary pop (Celine). All these ladies are ICONS and representatives of what a vocalist is, and a big voiced pop diva. When someone says this person had such a powerful voice, you think Whitney; when a person says this person has an insane range, you think Mariah and so forth. They are a representation of that genre and style and moment in music history.

"Anyway, to answer your question, BEYONCE represents the 90′s R&B. That alone makes her an ICON (by your own standards)"

Wait WHAT?! Not even. The icons for R&B in the 90s were Toni Braxton, Mary J. Blige, R.Kelly, etc. Beyonce has done NOTHING for R&B to be considered its icon. I mean she emerged in the late 1997s and forth, how can she represent a whole genre when she was a part of it for only 3 years of the whole decade and was in a GROUP? :roll:

"Those “LEGENDS” you posted the names of, are either vocalists OR dancers.

I am talking about performing as : singing AND. AND. AND. dancing at the same time.

CAN any of these (but MJ) do both?????"

Yes, Freddie could as well as Prince, Tina Turner, Madonna, etc. She sets no type of standard for performance the way Tina Turner, MJ, Prince, etc did. She's great at it but she brings NOTHING new to the table.

"I didn’t say I “AGREE” with Billboard on naming BEYONCE the Queen of Pop specially that she is R&B, I know who the real Queen of Pop is, and I’m aware of that magazines throw the “QUEEN/KING OF POP” titles around real too much.

I was just pointing to that BILLBOARD magazine gave her that title."

It doesn't matter what Billboard said about who's the Queen of Pop when they've are magazine. Rolling stone ranked Christina Aguilera as a higher vocalist than Mariah Carey Celine, Patti, etc.....are they right? No.