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Discussion: Should Rihanna be Billboards WOTY instead of Gaga?
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Should Rihanna be Billboards WOTY instead of Gaga?
After all, Rihanna had the better year. Bitch Better Have My Money became the urban smash of the year, she's appeared on countless magazine covers, such as Vanity Fair, has a contract with Samsung, just announced her special Christmas socks, and premiered her controversial album artwork for Anti not too long ago. All while being the most watched pop girl this year due to the hype for Anti, which everybody is waiting for and will be listening to.
That being said, should Rihanna have been Billboard's Woman of The Year instead? Rihanna's comeback is expected sooner than Gaga's is, and unlike Gaga, Rihanna has a chance of scoring another Top 10 hit.
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Originally posted by Remixed
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People payed attention to her more this year than they payed attention to Gaga. Gaga's year was just based on good PR moves, due to her new management. Meanwhile, Rihanna has been making smart business moves for herself since the start of the year. New singles, perfume, Christmas socks, a big deal with Samsung, etc. What does Gaga have?
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Christmas socks & a deal with Samsung being reasons
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ATRLers: This WOTY award is so irrelevant, even Ciara won once
ATRLers five minutes after: OMG, my fave deserves this award!!!11 ):
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Originally posted by FloridaKilos
After all, Rihanna had the better year. Bitch Better Have My Money became the urban smash of the year, she's appeared on countless magazine covers, such as Vanity Fair, has a contract with Samsung, just announced her special Christmas socks, and premiered her controversial album artwork for Anti not too long ago. All while being the most watched pop girl this year due to the hype for Anti, which everybody is waiting for and will be listening to.
That being said, should Rihanna have been Billboard's Woman of The Year instead? Rihanna's comeback is expected sooner than Gaga's is, and unlike Gaga, Rihanna has a chance of scoring another Top 10 hit.
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Why would billboard award her for this stuff. Announcing Christmas socks? Really? Meghan and Taylor we're the most successful this year. Taylor won last year, so Meghan deserved it but I guess Gaga winning is fine too.
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Originally posted by Remixed
Christmas socks & a deal with Samsung being reasons
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The Samsung deal is huge, and the Christmas socks are a collaboration with Stance, a very popular and quality sock store.
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Originally posted by RudeBoyy
Why would billboard award her for this stuff. Announcing Christmas socks? Really? Meghan and Taylor we're the most successful this year. Taylor won last year, so Meghan deserved it but I guess Gaga winning is fine too.
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Mehgan being rewarded as their Woman of the Year would have been an even bigger joke!
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Originally posted by Paparazzaid
ATRLers: This WOTY award is so irrelevant, even Ciara won once
ATRLers five minutes after: OMG, my fave deserves this award!!!11 ):
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Nice try, but I never claimed to not care about the Woman of the Year award because of Ciara. I actually love Ciara.
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Originally posted by FloridaKilos
People payed attention to her more this year than they payed attention to Gaga. Gaga's year was just based on good PR moves, due to her new management. Meanwhile, Rihanna has been making smart business moves for herself since the start of the year. New singles, perfume, Christmas socks, a big deal with Samsung, etc. What does Gaga have?
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The Oscar's performance (most talked about moment, even eclipsed the picture of the year award in terms of people talking) and AHS alone made Gaga more talked about than Rihanna this year like let's not kid ourselves.
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after EVERYTHING that has happened this year, y'all still have the nerve to call rih WOTY?
And the damn reasons given in the OP
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no, all biases aside, taylor should've gotten it for the second year in a row. and i don't want to say that because i find her to be trash but let's call a spade a spade.
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Originally posted by ♚ PRiNCE HiGH ♚
after EVERYTHING that has happened this year, y'all still have the nerve to call rih WOTY?
And the damn reasons given in the OP
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Nothing bad really happened to Rihanna this year besides her pushing back Anti's release date to perfect the album, and there's nothing wrong with that. She's been having fun in the meantime making top dollar deals, and releasing luxury items like perfumes and Holiday socks, which are in collaboration with a quality sock designing company.
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Nah she doesn't need that award to validate anything.
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