Discussion: Does Rihanna have anything left to prove? - Page 7

Tuxedo

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Originally posted by Eternium

She needs something innovative. She never really brought a new marketing idea like Madonna with sexualizing religious imagery or Britney with her Lolita to Sex Kitten transition or Janet Jackson with her hypersexualization and awareness.

Yeah, she didn't go the easy way like everybody. Instead of it - she's just making music.

How dare you, Rihanna, how dare you.

400Lux

Yes, Rihanna not only has a lot to prove, she has EVERYTHING to prove. What has she proved thus far? She hasn't proved to be a legendary singer. Nor a legendary songwriter. Nor a legendary performer. She sells albums and singles, but you could argue that she's much more dependent on her songwriters and producers than the majority of her peers. So yes, like I said, Rihanna has yet to prove to be good at something.

Teezy

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Originally posted by RihannaLoverrr

Her stay performance at the Grammys & UK X Factor say other wise for talent (nopt to mention Rolling Stone stating that her Diamonds performance was the best of the AMAs that night).
Rated R was critically acclaimed.
GGGB has good sales.
Her diamonds tour grossed 140M from 88 shows.

Nothing was special about those performances except the fact that she managed to stay on key.

Rated R being her only positively received (not even critically acclaimed

) album out of 7 albums is not proving anything.

That Diamonds Tour pales in comparison to tours by the other big stars our time.

She literally doesn't excel in anything except single sales.

RomanNavy

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Originally posted by HistorBey

@ the navy running around angry.

Angry?
YOU are in a thread with ICON's name attached

In the end Rihanna is a MUSIC artist and her music is the most remembered of all her peers.
With classics like Diamonds, We found Love and Umbrella she's good.
But she's only 26 lmao. The age Madonna started!!
I mean

HumanitySector

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Originally posted by Eternium

Sis, all of our faves do that "change up the theme for a new era" shtick (something Madonna's credited for because she popularized global image thanks to her early use of music videos). None of Rihanna's transformations are notable, point and black. She did teen pop then good girl gone bad then dark era (seems very familiar) then came back with pure pop (very, very familiar) and is transitioning in to R&B/urban with heavy dance elements now. She's literally done nothing new. I'm not even being shady.

So basically now she has to do heavy metal or gospel right?

RihannaLoverrr

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Originally posted by Eternium

I count DC, sis. Once you start getting in to the big leagues, you can't be selective with which part of an opponent's sales you count if you want your statistical argument to be taken seriously.

I'm sure Rihanna will take them soon in pure record sales, but she's still fighting her way towards the top ten with albums + track equivalent albums.

Then you should've said Beyonce + DC.

& yeah, how shocking that her album sales aren't as good as Mariah's, Whitney & Britney when illegal downloads exist now and album sales are at their lowest ever. Who owuld've though.

pink.hearts

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Originally posted by Sinvius

Everyone flocked to this thread the second it was made. You know damn well that if one Hive member comments on any Rihanna threads it automatically turns into "THE HATERS PERCHED" "HIVE ALREADY HERE" for the next 4 pages.

that's all they can ever say

never mind giving an intelligent response or providing actual facts to dispute or back up their claims, their only reply is something related to the beyhive

HistorBey

She's not a musician either. She needs to learn more about music in general. She doesn't take her craft seriously.