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Member Since: 10/28/2009
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Originally posted by Nicole
She's going to get burned out from saying "I like this, don't like that, let's try this again"?
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this thread is a ****in KI
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Member Since: 10/28/2009
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Originally posted by MusicTalker
Katy Perry & Ke$ha are the IT girls in the teen world. Rihanna is most popular among 20-30 year olds in the US from my personal observations. I don't know for sure at all though.
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According to her concert reviews, her audience consists of a lot of pretty young kids and parents.
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Member Since: 3/6/2011
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Originally posted by GeezusHaberdash
According to her concert reviews, her audience consists of a lot of pretty young kids and parents.
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Not true, her audience usually consists of young adults to older.
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Member Since: 5/18/2011
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I honestly would like to see her take a short stint and be more involved with the artistry, but at the same time I'm not complaining. I, like the majority of society, suffers from ADHD. Hell Rihanna herself seems to suffer from the **** her damn self hence her releasing albums so frequently. I think the fact that she does continue to change her sound and image keeps people interested. Evolving kind of saves her from overexposure. Id understand if she was releasing albums every year with no growth, but she does grow with every album whether you want to think so or not. None of them sound alike. So yeah, continuously releasing new music with her method works for her and obviously the majority of society. I'm not complaining. I just fear, as a fan, when she really does begin to decline. I don't think it'll be soon though.
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Member Since: 10/13/2008
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Originally posted by GeezusHaberdash
According to her concert reviews, her audience consists of a lot of pretty young kids and parents.
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But according to me who's seen three of her concerts, they include 20 year old+ males (straight and gay), lots of girls (teenagers, 20+ and 30+, black and white).
When I saw LGOE Tour with my friend, in front of us was a 60 year old white couple , and behind us were a group of 4 20 year old black girls.
Her concerts are very diverse.
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Member Since: 3/18/2009
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Originally posted by KoreanDream
I am so tired of people wishing for a Rated R 2.0.
Albums like that come ONCE in a career, and if you want something deep and very musical, then you'll just have to wait because Rihanna has no inspiration for something like that right now.S he is just a 23-year-old living out her dream and having fun. Her music translates that.
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I'm not asking for something in the same lyrical and sonic vein as Rated R, I would just be interested in having her do something deeper and more personal again. LOUD was good fun, but if your entire pop star personality is built on liking sex and alcohol, then you're going to become real uninteresting real fast. It worked for this album but I think she needs to strike a balance. Hopefully there are things in her life besides partying and ****ing that can provide inspiration for her music.
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Member Since: 3/17/2011
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"Would a break for creative and artistic growth hurt?"
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Member Since: 10/28/2009
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Originally posted by ViTiLiGO
Not true, her audience usually consists of young adults to older.
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I remember some of her reviews noting a young audience, i think it was the Staples and the NY ones. And i think one of the Brazil reviews noted youngsters. I wouldn't know the real attendance tea since i don't attend.
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Member Since: 10/28/2009
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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
But according to me who's seen three of her concerts, they include 20 year old+ males (straight and gay), lots of girls (teenagers, 20+ and 30+, black and white).
When I saw LGOE Tour with my friend, in front of us was a 60 year old white couple , and behind us were a group of 4 20 year old black girls.
Her concerts are very diverse.
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oh, ok. BOOk the united nations, Rih.
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Member Since: 10/4/2010
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Originally posted by evo
Because her label has the CHAINS around that girl neck and they gon' make her ass werQ so she can make them that money.
/endthread
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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Originally posted by TheOnlyOne
Loud is the commercial success and was able to provide 3 #1 hits
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To be fair. S&M only hit #1 because of the remix featuring Britney which isn't on the album. That's why it's credited as a number 1 for both artists. But, I still see your point and agree that loud definitely had some successful singles.
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Originally posted by Shape
AllMusic is a single review site though, isn't it? It's a little unfair to average an amalgamation of 20 review scores with another review score just to try to prove your point.
Just use Metacritic. According to Metacritic, Rated R is her best album (damn right).
Loud was a weaker album (due to the lack of personal connection IMO), but was still fine.
You're arguing that GGGB is better than Rated R, based on shoddy math.
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First of all, I said I wasn't going to make a call, so I never argued that any release was better than another. I just put the scores up.
Secondly, I used AllMusic, because when I googled about it, I read that it's scores were user based, but after further digging, it looks like that isn't true. So I will definitely concede on that point and edit AllMusic out of my post.
EDIT: I'll be replacing AllMusic with RateYourMusic, which is user based. My aim was to include two seperate sources (one that averaged critic scores (Metacritic) and one that averages user scores (RateYourMusic.)
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Member Since: 3/5/2011
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The bitch can **** out her endless slew of music, and people will continue to buy. Once that changes, I'm sure she will too, but right now, the public is eating up her "fast food" music, so there's no reason she should stop. People get so mad that she isn't as involved in her music, but if people are going to eat up everything she releases like its a fresh caramel apple empanada from Taco Bell, then there's nothing wrong. And if Rihanna were to suffer from overexposure, it would've happened with Loud; it would've happened with AGLM; it would've happened with GGGB. If there's an anomaly in the music business, it's definitely Rihanna. I would love to see her get a little more involved with her music, songwriting-wise, but I love Loud, GGGB, AGLM, and even MOTS (RR too, but she did get a bit more involved with that), so if nothing's broken, then don't fix it.
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I think she (her label) wants to cement her place as an international force. The Coldplay feature is no coincidence--she's capitalizing on her massive British popularity.
I don't mind her rushing all these albums out, actually. She's very likable. I have a feeling this music will be better than what came from the Loud era.
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She loves her fans anymore questions
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Originally posted by GeezusHaberdash
Anyways, "overexposure" is a stan-invented myth to politely say one is tired of an artist's existence. The only way to burn out in the media's eyes is if they label you a burn out. Look @ Xtina, she takes 40 year breaks between albums and is labelled a burn out.
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So true.
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Originally posted by GeezusHaberdash
Eventually Rih will slip up and miss the mark and her music won't do as well as it used to and she won't be able to pull a quick rescue like how she did Rated R into LOUD, but as long as she has the time she might as well keep rolling out the punches. I'm not gonna fake like i won't listen to every annual album she puts out. I just hope this new one is better than LOUD; I'm glad this boring era is ending in a few days.
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Agree. I'm excited for whatever she has in store. More for us, the better, imo.
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We wanna get out of that horrid contract!! Though it made her everything she is at this point.
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Member Since: 2/9/2008
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Originally posted by Nicole
Rihanna will last. Only 23 but her songs don't skew young or try to cater to teenagers. Her age won't catch up with her music for years to come.
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That's an interesting point.
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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Label puppets do what they do. But she is hard working, at least.
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Member Since: 1/12/2011
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Originally posted by Deemy
We wanna get out of that horrid contract!! Though it made her everything she is at this point.
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I don't understand why Rihanna fans don't like her contract or want her to switch labels. She gets the best promotion on the DJ roster. She's always their focus. I know she doesn't make that much money off of her music or other ventures but when she renews her contact she can easily demand more money. They've really propelled her.
I also just wanna ask where the rumors of her only having a 5 album contract are from? Like where did that stem from? I'm pretty sure at the most she would have had a three album contract. Considering DJ was trying to push a lot of urban acts at that time.
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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Update: Because all the bickering back and forth over the quality of Rihanna's music. I wanted to find one source with aggregated critics review scores (Metacritic) and a different source that with aggregated user scores (RateYourMusic) and then also average them together to provide a bit more of a unbiased opinion on the quality of her music. In my original post on Page 10, I screwed up and used AllMusic (which isn't user scores...damn you Google!), but I've got it fixed now and thought I would re-post. So here it is:
Metacritic: (out of 100)
Good Girl Gone Bad - 72
Rated R - 75
Loud - 67
RateYourMusic (out of 5)
Good Girl Gone Bad - 2.92
Rated R - 2.82
Loud - 2.85
Average of Both Sites: (out of 100)
Good Girl Gone Bad - 65.2
Rated R - 65.7
Loud - 62
Make of it what you will.
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