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Originally posted by Vin
Rihanna's problem is that she can't have two "serious eras" in a row. People expect pop music from her, but not to the same degree as Katy Perry. Rihanna can pull off ballads like "Diamonds" and "Stay" and make them hits/moderate hits and the general public will buy them. Katy Perry can't. But what Rihanna can't do is be lazy and try to push two ballad-driven eras in a row (because she doesn't want to learn choreography and dance). And's that why the GP haven't been responding so much this era. After "Unapologetic," they needed Pop Rihanna for #R8. #R9 could have been Ballad Rihanna.
...Vin |
It's nothing to do with that
. Rihanna's "problem" is the fact that she is always changing the entire sound and image between eras so she hasn't got a stable big fanbase, when people are warming up to her and the sound she is serving she changes drastically, hence there not being a consensus on what's her best album even among her stans, the same people who love LOUD are the same ones who hate Unapologetic and vice versa, the amount of white girls that were mad at my school when TTT was released because it wasn't as generic as Loud
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It's the risk you have to take when you're one of the best and most exiciting artists ever. if she sat confortambly and kept on making GGGB's and Loud's she wouldn't have so many bumps in her sales catalogue. there's a reason only the one trick ponys who keep recycling their sound are the only ones with strong loyal fanbases that make them pull good 1st week sales (Adele, Beyonce, Taylor..)
