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Originally posted by Cain
The fact is nobody is really on Rihanna's side.
Not the black community, not the white gays, not the females.
She's not putting herself in a narrative that's easy to understand (i.e. Beyoncé the queen, Taylor the relatable girl), she doesn't have that marketing image, she just does whatever she feels like and that's what people mostly can't handle. When the CB incident happened everyone was trying to make decisions for her, trying to tell her what to do and trying to make a 19 year old girl promise the world that she never would see her first real boyfriend again.
The world has treated Rihanna disgustingly throughout the years and even now she is getting little reckognition for the things she's done, even when those things put her amongst legends.
Throughout all of this though she has remained immensely successful and ahead, but she definitely has had backlash. |
And THIS. . .to be honest, it is quite interesting considering how unforgiving the industry and black community is towards her and she still has the level of acclaim she has is nothing less that amazing.
Nobody's made of Teflon and whether it's a short term blow over or career changing/ending, all public figures get backlash at some point for one thing or another.