You do know crazy in love music is sampled? And so is get right!

You dont even know what your talking about beyonce set no trends she stole JLo entire look,style etc and its well documented and beyonces music is far from orignal or trendsetting

And yes ria is a massive trendsetter

Of course she's a trendsetter. Whenever i see random girls in the mall they are rocking whatever image she has at the moment.

The red koolaid hair really set a trend. also that half shade head. Girls with heads that should remain covered in hair that they were cute.

Musically and image wise, of course.

Well Rihanna started off doing Reggae, Dancehall music, She then ventured into R&B, Pop, Reggae Rock(Kisses Don't Lie), Then Dance music, Urban. I mean she may make Pop Music but her music usually borrows heavily from other Genre's Rock, Folk, Hip Hop, EDM, Reggae. I mean she's definitely not a one trick pony.

And again i said ONE OF and HER TIME.

mess.... what's the problem in sampling sth and making it a trend then??? lol. so you'll say that Michael Jackson Thriller didn't start a trend because movies existed before his Music video and he just made a short film (when even short films existed before) ??? lmao.

CIL samples in the chorus an old funk track which remove nothing to the fact that people was inspired by the production of the song in 2003,2004,.... 2013 (talk dirty, problem...)

No. She's more of a trendhopper. How is she a trendsetter in music? Alternative pop midtempos/ballads were all the rage in 2012 before Diamonds and Stay. Pour It Up was Bandz. FourFiveSeconds and BBHMM are also on trend. Talk that Talk & Loud followed the dance/EDM trend. The only time she musically didn't follow a trend was with Rated R when she made a dubstep and pop-rock inspired album instead of a dance-pop one. No wonder it's her best album.

Rihanna is the most sonically diverse/adventurous of all the current popgirls but that doesn't mean she's a trendsetter. She just changes up her sound all the time while the other girls just happen to mostly stick in the same one.

thank you! and despite her hard-to-copy style she has still set trends:

-The whole fast-pacing singing style of DC has been very well documented.
-Irreplaceable brought in a wave of acoustic guitar songs from the likes of Chris Brown, Jordin Sparks, Rihanna (x3) etc.
-Crazy in Love brought imitations like 1 Thing and Get Right.
-Surprise releases are much more of a thing now that Beyoncé did it
-not mentioning that she helped to bring the "feminism" subject in young black & white girls home
(rather than 40s white women only)
- I know it won't be taken seriously but notice how many popstars got pregnant after Blue Ivy
- plus her stage attitude and costumes have already inspired the new generation (Ariana, Fifth Harmony, PSY , etc...)

If you're going to say that I don't know what I'm talking about, you should probably start by knowing what we are talking about. We are talking about music. So any reference to look and style is irrelevant, never mind the fact that most of those J.Lo/Beyoncé comparisons are jokes and merely the result of both of them being styled in similar ways due to the fashion trends of the time. I'm sure if a pressed Bey fan wanted, they could put together a list of images where Beyoncé wore something prior to J.Lo, but you see, it doesn't really matter the much. Wearing your hair in a bun isn't that serious.

But back to what we are talking about. Music. Are you implying that Beyoncé's megahit, Crazy in Love, which indeed has a prominent horn sample did not pave the way for other songs with a similar samples such as 1 Thing and Get Right, just because it's a sample? Does that mean that the Chi-Lites in the early 1970s set that trend that happened in the early 2000s? Use some logic here. If no popstars sampled opera songs and then Popstar X sampled an opera track, and it was a huge hit, and then Popstar Y sampled an opera track, does that mean that one didn't influence the other? Trends don't just magically appear 30 years later out of the blue. Something spurs them. No popstar was making this type of song prior to Beyoncé, were they? No one except Beyoncé that is, with Work it Out.

Trendhopper* get it right.

Not to mention that when she first came out as a solo artist there was a wave of new R&B divas marketed to be in the same Beyoncé mould with honey blonde hair, lots of leg, singing and dancing in the same way, etc., Rihanna being one of them and she only became the star she is after she stepped out of Beyoncé's shadow to have her own brand.

this thread again and again....

and nnnn the same members always coming for it

No, quite opposite, she's one of the biggest trend-followers.

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