Anyway, this era is indeed her messiest imo. I mean they're actually leaving her without a strong song on pop radio pre album release. It's super ignorant of them considering FFS wasn't exactly a monster on the radio. Playlists are more like to drop FFS and spin old hits than continue spinning FFS.
I think everyone is really jumping the gun with this whole 'R8 is gonna flop/bomb' mess lol This is still her most anticipated record.....all she has to do is release a more pop friendly single and she'll be fine and I think they'll do just that prior to the album's release
Oh and I think the promo she does leading up to the album release will be better than her last 2 eras
Not really. She released a new song and video and 99 percent of people don't even know. Good luck with keeping the music in a cult like streaming service.The first time you have a Rihanna song and video out and people don't know about it at all.
She killed the hype she built during the break.
And she can't even release during holiday season now because it is so far away.
This is her worst era. Rated R, was actually planned and had good promo and it had her best material.
But this... anyways, we can't even be positive, since she hasn't given a slight info at all.
Since when does an era start after the album comes out? The era started the minute she dropped FFS.
This. And if people by now don't know that Rihanna pushes albums through massive singles, then you really are out of touch.
And is A02 our G.U.Y? Video out, song out, live performance and the song is kept in this pandora box called Tidal.
You know something is not good, when Artpop singles have outperformed R8's ones.
I'm ****ing sick of y'all saying this era is going awful. The music this era is different from anything on radio (bar BBHMM maybe).
Lead single - #4 (WHERE SHE WORKED WITH A LEGEND, SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY)
2nd single (urban) - #19
PIU was a urban single which peaked at 19, BBHMM is still increasing with NO video and no streaming it got to #19. This week we have streaming so it possibly could go #15.
AO is a tidal exclusive for all we know as well as the video.
I never said the era hasn't started, just saying it's too early to judge it as if we were halfway through it.
Also some of y'all are pressed because things didn't happen the way you wanted, or/and because Rih isn't pushing the songs and they didn't reach #1 (yet). Get over it. Complaining won't change ****.
I mean one performence for a LEAD single, come onnn roc nation, what is this ?