No. The fact ARTPOP was still released three months after it's lead despite Gaga's frustration, battling depression, parting ways with her management before the record dropped and not needing a **** load of writing camps to give her material speaks volumes. Rihanna's team are scared shitless of competition because they have no faith in Rihanna's album selling power who hasn't seen a sales week like ARTPOP's debut, are trying to sort out a desperate deal to count towards Billboard to make the album look like a success, threw three different singles like **** on a wall to see what would stick with the GP and none did and then went back to the drawing board by scrapping the album.