IDK what the **** that is and its guaranteed that Bey doesn't either. After Bey started singing about making sex tapes, y'all really have nothing to tell us. And going by Navy logic, since Rih didn't started getting more explicitly sexual in her lyrics until after IASF, we can ascertain that it was actually Bey responsible for Rih's "switch in style". A reverse warholian experience we have here.
So let me get this straight, you're screaming about Rih not doing explicit songs like Partition and DrIL but yet you literally have no knowledge about her discography.
So let me get this straight, you're screaming about Rih not doing explicit songs like Partition and DrIL but yet you literally have no knowledge about her discography.
Well Watch n Learn is one of my favourite Rihanna songs and I don't think it's comparable to DIL.
Both are sexual, but WNL sounds more like a song that happens to be about sex rather than a sex song, if that makes sense. There is no real motivation behind it. After ST came out and I re-listened to Watch n Learn, I felt it really lacked in sexual emotion and does not feel like an expression of sexuality, as much as a song like DIL.
Beyoncé going a step further on ST is not necessarily in the words themselves but the intimacy that she is letting us be privy to. She's not just saying "lick my cockiness" or "eat my cake cake cake" she's telling us direct examples of her sexual life. What makes it so shocking isn't just explicit content but the whole picture we aren't used to hearing. And when we do hear it in pop music, it's in songs like Watch n Learn which seem to talk about sex for the sake of it, rather than any motivating factors.
Most obvious example of Beyoncé trying to keep up with Rihanna: hopping on Instagram (a network Rihanna pioneered) and making her username "BaddieBey" (inspired by the iconic "BadGalRiRi"). The Hive needs to stop undermining Rihanna's impact. It's not just Bey who's inspired by her.
I did cringe when she called herself BaddieBey. Like
I did cringe when she called herself BaddieBey. Like
Beyoncé named it that in tribute to three young girls who made a video from 2012 explaining why she's a "baddie". Beyoncé even sent them a handwritten note after signed "Baddie B".
It didn't last long but it's not a Rihanna reference.
And if we really want to get picky with the word "bad", Beyoncé sang in 2006, "She ain't the average chick, she the baddest chick."
Beyoncé named it that in tribute to three young girls who made a video from 2012 explaining why she's a "baddie". Beyoncé even sent them a handwritten note after signed "Baddie B".
It didn't last long but it's not a Rihanna reference.
And if we really want to get picky with the word "bad", Beyoncé sang in 2006, "She ain't the average chick, she the baddest chick."
I love how you're always right there with the receipts.
So let me get this straight, you're screaming about Rih not doing explicit songs like Partition and DrIL but yet you literally have no knowledge about her discography.
I know enough about MY fave and your fave's first 5 eras to conclude that Bey has been doing everything y'all try to act like Rihanna pioneered. That unknown album track came AFTER Loud. After Bey asked to be filmed having sex, after Bey made a song about her cooch, after Bey described, the most fascinating way, her husband's penis, after Bey offered to be a naughty girl, after Bey wriggled across a bed covered in edible lube, after...you get the point I'm sure.
Or she matured and didn't wanna follow trends like Rihanna
Rihanna doesn't follow trends
When WFL & Diamonds premiered everyone (including ATRL) was surprised and most people were saying the songs won't do well on the charts etc. Just check the threads. Same thing happened with Work, which was the first real dancehall hit released in a while (and Billboard agrees).
When WFL & Diamonds premiered everyone (including ATRL) was surprised and most people were saying the songs won't do well on the charts etc. Just check the threads. Same thing happened with Work, which was the first real dancehall hit released in a while (and Billboard agrees).
WFL followed a trend, but then again she was already on that trend since Loud.
WFL though definitely is the classiest EDM track of the era and certainly is one of the few that don't sound fully dated.
The excuses already Y'all do Rihanna so bad.
I LOVE Beyonce. But she never rapped and sung about ****ing in the kitchen before ST. Or the Partition video and lyrics for example, she never did that before. Like even my mom, a Beyonce fan since the beginning, said how obvious that change was. Especially since Rihanna is younger than Bey and Bey was already a mom during that time.
You need to listen to Naughty Girl, Baby Boy, Speechless or Kitty Kat.. Beyoncé was also selling sex with Destiny's Child and she's rapped while being with them and solo. She didn't switch her style because of Rihanna.
Beyoncé named it that in tribute to three young girls who made a video from 2012 explaining why she's a "baddie". Beyoncé even sent them a handwritten note after signed "Baddie B".
It didn't last long but it's not a Rihanna reference.
And if we really want to get picky with the word "bad", Beyoncé sang in 2006, "She ain't the average chick, she the baddest chick."
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Mess, my mom says the exact same thing Bey has always served sex, but she was never raunchy before 2013
And what major things happened before the Selftitled era?
- She fired her dad
- she became mother
- Her parents divorced
Bey went through her biggest careerwise shake-up, but also through her biggest shake--up in her personal life and even though she is a grown up, seeing a long lasting marriage fall apart from the people who raised you also makes an impact. Nothing was holding her back at that time and still nothing does. She doesn't have to sugarcoat anything anymore, and that isn't because of Rihanna, but that is because she grew artistically, personally as woman, she became a mother and also took her career completely in her own hands. She always owned her sexuality, but she grew to a point where she could just say it how it is. That would have happened with or without Rihanna.
She's a Grown Woman and she can do whatever she likes. That lyric just didn't came fall from the sky, that's just literally the point she grew to. As artist, as woman and even then as new mother.
The way she attempted to surprise release ANTI until that traffic wasn't picking up the way she would have liked wasn't following a trend set by her idol?
Beyonce may be alot of things, but music innovator she is not. She only hops on hottest trends and colllabs with the hottest people atm for her benefit. She never brought any new sounds or styles to music. Rihanna however...