Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belonging. Still, there have been varied responses to Rihanna’s ascendancy, among both Barbadians and the wider Caribbean community. The responses reveal as much about our own national and regional anxieties as they do about the artist herself. The boundary-transgressing, cultural icon Rihanna is subject to anxieties about her body language and latitude from her global audiences as well; however, the essays in this collection purposely seek to de-centre the dominance of the Euro-American gaze, focusing instead on considerations of the Caribbean artist and her oeuvre from a Caribbean postcolonial corpus of academic inquiry
The contributors approach the subjects of Rihanna, globalization, gender and sexuality, commerce, transnationalism, Caribbean regionalism, and Barbadian national identity and development from different disciplinary and at times radically divergent perspectives.
Good. We don't need them on the Navy ship. They're annoying kids, and they're just good when it comes to spreading negative stuff about Rih. *plays fading*
I wonder sometimes why did they jump ship?
Is it because:
1- the music ain't good.
2- the songs didn't reach a certain spot.
3- they just needed break from the stanning world.
4- they want pop/loud rih back.
I don't get the point of "jumping ship" in general. Its so overdramtic to me, I understand outgrowing ATRL or even stanning/ stan wars" but to drop an artist all because they're no longer as commercially successful is so dumb.
& the fact that this drama is all happening before people even got a chance to listen to the entire album.
congrats 
