When she's successful she's suddenly a Puppet who can't do anything at all, but when she's not smashing she's "making wrong decisions", "has to much time on her hands"
If she were truly a puppet she'd be a PR nightmare. Her label has not always supported her decisions.
She has funded her own music video, recorded a remix with her ex boyfriend without her labels consent, and recorded a full follow up instead of re-releasing her second most successful album like her label wanted.
She is definitely involved in direction of her albums, what songs she records, etc.
I loveeeeee Rihanna but I can't imagine she was like "I really want to do a piano driven ballad. Heard of Mikkey Ecko? Call him up let's toss back and forth some ideas."
He actually heard that she recorded the song and wanted to put it on her album. You tried though...
When she's successful she's suddenly a Puppet who can't do anything at all, but when she's not smashing she's "making wrong decisions", "has to much time on her hands"
If she were truly a puppet she'd be a PR nightmare. Her label has not always supported her decisions.
She has funded her own music video, recorded a remix with her ex boyfriend without her labels consent, and recorded a full follow up instead of re-releasing her second most successful album like her label wanted.
She is definitely involved in direction of her albums, what songs she records, etc.
Very true. She wanted WFL, she got it. She wanted Stay, she got it. She wanted Diamonds, she got it. The ability to pick quality songs that appeals to so many people, to have that ear for music that draws people in is a gift in itself. You can be a "songwriter" all you want but your song is nothing more than lyrics on a sheet of paper that you record in your bedroom till it's chosen by an artist and is given life by his/her voice. Depending on the chemistry of the song and his/her voice, the song has potential to become huge and huge songs are what Rihanna has an attuned ear for, more than other artists.
