The way she sang on 'Work' was largely cultural, it's part of the whine, as in not only the movements but speech pattern as well.
Another white dude who thinks his opinions matter but is just mad because he's stiff as hell and actually has to dance to the music as opposed to just bopping his head up and down like he does to his precious rock music
Is this racist? I feel like it's racist. Education is key, folks!
Is this all they said, or do they go on to say something like "well, that's what everybody said but..."?
EDIT: Just about Work. Fair enough if they think she should enunciate better in Woo and Desperado, because that wasn't specifically in another dialect.
Why are y'all acting like they dragged her in that entire article?
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But Rihanna doesn’t need you to understand her, she just needs you to feel her, and her very distinct lyric phrasing lends itself more to raw emotion than it does to the vagaries of the English language. Ever since rap and hip-hop took over pop music, lyrics have been more important that ever — the rhythm is in the rhyme and the thrust of the song is about listeners going on a journey syllable by syllable. We’re in a moment where Beyoncé peppers the breaks of her visual album “Lemonade” with poetry and the line “Becky with the good hair” ruins multiple Instagram accounts. Taylor Swift sings with crisp pronunciation, just so you know which of her exes she’s dissing at any given time. And Katy Perry’s words provide more inspiration than all of the Minion macros that your aunt posts on Facebook. All of these artists are taking a picture, but Rihanna is making a painting, and an impressionistic one at that. If Beyoncé is Rembrandt then Rihanna is Basquiat, a splattering of chaos that makes sense. She’s not without words, she is just beyond them.