RIHANNADONNA
Goodbye Madonna. Rihanna is our biggest female pop icon.
Just a week ago, the Bergen audience witnessed the gigantomane show to Kanye West - and heard Rihanna sing recorded on "All Of The Lights".
When 23-year-old self appears in the same scene are the effects more understated, even though she divask arrive in a rødlysende cube to the Stargate-produced "Only Girl In The World."
For where Kanye West was a violent and insane contemporary works of a concert, invite the redheads from Barbados to a veritable nightclub - where she is both the desires and the object manager on the scene. An impression of begging topless muscular men in denim vest that constantly tries to catch her attention, but girlpowersk ignored in favor of the audience and the music.
Provokes not
The balance between the vulgar and the family-friendly is less delicate than you might expect - even the reasonably explicit text on the "S & M" is either overstated or unnecessarily stressed. Besides, she is throughout the two roughly hour without a single change of clothes.
She does not need provocation to get attention anymore, and she knows it.
The second greatest hero is Nuno Bettencourt. As a former Extreme guitarist promises he naturally grandiose the tough disco songs - and do ballads stadionske with undisguised bombastic power ballad solos. Add sparkling fancies as a dancing crash appear in the "Shut Up and Drive", a pink gun followed by marching on "Hard" and that she was pandering to the popular musical nerds among us, recreating Sheila E's "Breaking Dishes" complete with intramural drum solo . (Unfortunately, she had dropped the cover of Prince's "Darling Nikki", which has been part of the tour so far)
Moving moments
Some little empty pauses, which among other things, "Pon De Replay" is played as a kind of music without Rihanna, rotate with the rhythm of the show.
It's really forgotten when the end will have a touching moment of reality.
Children with roses come up on stage while Rihanna acquire Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" to Norway and the names of terror victims Utøya scroll across the screens. The combination of all this, the top of her perfect attitude means that Rihanna now appears more and more that not only NOK a pop artist. She is without a doubt, and in all ways, today's Madonna.
THU MARTIN BØE
http://www.vg.no/musikk/artikkel.php?artid=10089448
She really made an impact!!
(PS: the article is in Norwegian so blame Google for any typos)
RiRi all tha way!
