Her work ethic, her improvement in live performance over the years, the fact that she crafted an album like Rated R which 99% of popstars couldn't do, the fact that she has been the person in charge of all her creative design and visions regarding her albums since GGGB, the fact that she's able to reinvent herself so easily, the fact that she's accomplished everything she has in just 6 years...the list goes on.
Her work ethic, her improvement in live performance over the years, the fact that she crafted an album like Rated R which 99% of popstars couldn't do, the fact that she has been the person in charge of all her creative design and visions regarding her albums since GGGB, the fact that she's able to reinvent herself so easily, the fact that she's accomplished everything she has in just 6 years...the list goes on.
Now sit.
Well, when cosidering the fact that she's vomited backstage, cancelled dates due to exhaustion and had a few mental breakdowns I would not consider that a good work ethic, more like being forced to work. And you act like she wrote, produced, arranged and composed every song on Rated R. The fact that after that album she went RIGHT back to dance-pop and commercial music means she DIDN'T stick behind it. And since when has RIHANNA, been the one in charge of her career? I'm not even shading, I'm being dead-ass serious. And of course if you have NO identifiable image, the best thing to do would be to adapt to whatever is hot at the moment, and if that's what you define as reinvention then so be it. Oh and the last part, I'll give you.
Nope, given the inconsistency of her live performances and her lack of growth from album to album,
she barely deserves the respect she gets as it is.
Lack of growth? Each one of her albums sound different to the last one and is just as good or even better. Rihanna is probably the most versatile popstar out there and is always reinventing herself.
Well she is the Queen of Youtube, Queen of Facebook, and Queen of the Digital Age, soo if someone can't respect that, then it says more about them than it does Rihanna.
"Here I Go Again" (featuring J-Status) - Rogers, Sturken, J-Status, Robyn Fenty
A Girl Like Me:
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"Kisses Don't Lie" - Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Robyn Fenty
"Break It Off" (featuring Sean Paul) - Sean Paul Henriques, Fenty, Donovan Bennett, K. Ford
"A Girl like Me" - Rogers, Sturken, Fenty
Rated R:
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"Mad House" - Makeba Riddick, Will Kennard, Saul Milton, Robyn Fenty
"Wait Your Turn" - James Fauntleroy II, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen, Kennard, Milton, Takura Tendayi, Fenty
"Hard" (featuring Jeezy) - Terius Nash, Christopher Stewart, Fenty, Jay Jenkins
"Rockstar 101" (featuring Slash) - Nash, Stewart, Fenty
"Fire Bomb" - Fauntleroy II, Brian Kennedy, Fenty Brian Kennedy
"Rude Boy" - Eriksen, Hermansen, Ester Dean, Riddick, Rob Swire, Fenty
"G4L" - Kennard, Milton, Fauntleroy II, Fenty
"Te Amo" - Eriksen, Hermansen, Fauntleroy II, Fenty
"The Last Song" - Fauntleroy II, Kennedy, Ben Harrison, Fenty
"Hole in My Head" (featuring Justin Timberlake) - Fauntleroy II, Fenty, Timberlake
Rihanna – composer, executive producer, art direction, design
Loud:
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Rihanna – vocals, art direction, creative director, design, executive producer
Talk That Talk:
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"You Da One" - Ester Dean, Lukasz Gottwald, Robyn Fenty, John Hill, Henry Walter
"Cockiness (Love It)" - Candice Pillay, D. Loernathy, Shondrae Crawford, Fenty
"Birthday Cake" - Terius Nash, Fenty, Marcos Palacios, Earnest Clark
"Watch n' Learn" - Priscilla Renea, Chauncey Hollis, Fenty, Alja Jackson
"Red Lipstick" - Nash, Fenty, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Will Kennard, Saul Milton
"Do Ya Thang" - Nash, Fenty
Rihanna - Vocals, executive producer, creative direction
Lack of growth? Each one of her albums sound different to the last one and is just as good or even better. Rihanna is probably the most versatile popstar out there and is always reinventing herself.
Yessss... it's the growth of her writting and producing camp! They are really growing with each release...
Well she is the Queen of Youtube, Queen of Facebook, and Queen of the Digital Age, soo if someone can't respect that, then it says more about them than it does Rihanna.
Again the YouTube/Facebook/Digital stuff. It's all singles/videos related. Nobody deserves more success just because he/she got millions of "likes" on Facebook; or because he/she sells extremely well 1 dollar digital downlads; or because his/her videos are huge on YouTube. That's just pathetic and embarrasing. Tours, albums, songwritting skils, vocal skills, dance skills (when you do dance-pop music) - that's what matters.
P.S.: GaGa still is the most viewed female singer on YouTube.
And since when has RIHANNA, been the one in charge of her career? I'm not even shading, I'm being dead-ass serious. And of course if you have NO identifiable image, the best thing to do would be to adapt to whatever is hot at the moment, and if that's what you define as reinvention then so be it.
When she started getting executive production and creative direction credits on her albums and tours back in 08.
She doesn't just do whatever is hot at the moment. If that were true, she would have never done Rated R when dance was taking over.
When she started getting executive production and creative direction credits on her albums and tours back in 08.
She doesn't just do whatever is hot at the moment. If that were true, she would have never done Rated R when dance was taking over.
You know as WELL as I know that the reason Rated R was less uptemp and happy is because she and her team were trying to capitalize off all of the "incident" press and make it seem that she was so edgy and tough now. That's why after Russian Roulette and Hard FAILED, they sent her right back out with Rudeboy. So please stop
Again the YouTube/Facebook/Digital stuff. It's all singles/videos related. Nobody deserves more success just because he/she got millions of "likes" on Facebook; or because he/she sells extremely well 1 dollar digital downlads; or because his/her videos are huge on YouTube. That's just pathetic and embarrasing. Tours, albums, songwritting skils, vocal skills, dance skills (when you do dance-pop music) - that's what matters.
P.S.: GaGa still is the most viewed female singer on YouTube.
Umm. No. All of those measure the degree to which people around the world love her, so yes they do matter.
You know as WELL as I know that the reason Rated R was less uptemp and happy is because she and her team were trying to capitalize off all of the "incident" press and make it seem that she was so edgy and tough now. That's why after Russian Roulette and Hard FAILED, they sent her right back out with Rudeboy. So please stop
Which is exactly why they waited 8 months after the incident to drop the lead single.
You know as WELL as I know that the reason Rated R was less uptemp and happy is because she and her team were trying to capitalize off all of the "incident" press and make it seem that she was so edgy and tough now. That's why after Russian Roulette and Hard FAILED, they sent her right back out with Rudeboy. So please stop
I said the same before. Her stans bring up her "writing" credits on that album, but she's listed last on every track she "co-wrote" -- adding a few words here and there isn't song writing at all.
It's all singles/videos related. Nobody deserves more success just because he/she got millions of "likes" on Facebook; or because he/she sells extremely well 1 dollar digital downlads; or because his/her videos are huge on YouTube. That's just pathetic and embarrasing. Tours, albums, songwritting skils, vocal skills, dance skills (when you do dance-pop music) - that's what matters. 
