This is the dumbest post I've read in a while.

There's no such thing as Beyoncé inventing surprise releases, get off your high horse. It just happened to become a common release strategy over the past 2-3 years. Hyping up a lead single/album is not worthwhile anymore so they just throw it out there whenever it's ready. Quick and efficient.

The point still stands. Rihanna cuts her hair pixie style, Beyonce follows right after. Rihanna does an urban record, Beyonce does it next. Rihanna is all about that badgirl image, Beyonce follows next. Let's not forget Beyonce's first instagram account name.

And one last thing, it was cute how Beyoncé started making ratchet explicit songs a year after Unapologetic.

If FourFiveSeconds was inspired by "4", then "Partition" was inspired by "Unapologetic".

Can you cite examples though?

Plus I didn't know 4 had a folk gospel song. But Hive can clarify that and gave us the song's name. Waiting...

Girl Video Phone was released in 2008.

Yes, but my fave is part of the Hive after all.

She didn't invent it, but she definitely owns it. No one did it like her, because every other surprise release was either surprise announced, or was a small thing, not a 17 music video album, which is huge.

1.) Rihanna had already worked with River Island before Puma.

2.) Rihanna had started talks about starting her own label five years ago.

3.) Rihanna hasn't dropped a surprise album neither has she dropped a surprise single.

4.) You're a dumb ass bitch who needs to get a life stupid ass ******.

Poor OP and the backfire