Consideration-Work needs to happen on the tour as well, but with the iconic Consideration's 2nd verse let me cover your **** in glitter I can make it gold, GOLD alone >>>
I would totally be sympathetic to the bronchitis excuse but this is how she sounds live a large portion of the times she performs live. She is totally capable of pulling off some solid vocals (see "Stay" - Grammy's) but this is just terrible.
EDIT: However the lighting was INCREDIBLE. So into it.
Im so digging the visuals and the songs. I wish everyones vocals (SZA, Rih, Drake) were more on point or they should of just had more backing track playing (atleast for Work) This performance could of easily been Rihanna's best ever if there was a little more rehearsing done for it.
Lol super late but no!! What I meant is that her performances are very good cuz she does rely on play back and her back up singers....rarely does she ever give 100% live performance .it's the simple fact. The format usually goes-- sing verse leave chorus to backing track and backup vocalists while she dances in the chorus...then do the same thing for the 2nd verse and mainly just adding adlibs here and there thru out the rest of the song.
I'm not criticizing her,it's a smart thing to do but of course the hive will do the most as usual.
Oh well yes. It is smart because if you want to do Single Ladies and slay dancing you need to do this. But the thing is, no one is giving Rihanna a hard time for not singing the chorus, they are criticizing her for going up and sounding bad. So the two examples are unrelated.