It was AMAZING. She has so much emotion and love. I liked how stripped down it was and really focused on her voice and the music but also kept it classy and interesting
Totally worth going, if you haven't been yet, prepare to be SLAYED
Needed Me & Same Ol' Mistakes was such a 1-2 punch. Ahhh, I'm still shook. SWM, Kiss it Better, Where Have You Been, and the other two I mentioned were the highlights for me
Rihanna has been a ubiquitous pop presence for more than a decade now, applying her versatile, sparkling voice to an ever-growing pile of hits.
She set out to step things up Thursday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills, where the artsy, high-reaching ambitions of her new album, “Anti,” were pressed into visual service in a night of big, tightly scripted spectacle. Early in a lengthy world tour supporting the album, Rihanna played for a full house that included pop star Adam Lambert, in town for his Friday show at the Fillmore Detroit. It was a crowd-pleasing affair for an audience that had come dressed in its club-night finest, ready for a lively if brief visit — just 85 minutes — with one of the era’s biggest stars.
If the tour’s scheduled launch was indeed stymied by production delays as claimed, it was easy Thursday night to see why: This was an effort filled with intricate dance numbers, transitions and costumes to go with an array of moving parts, from a suspended catwalk overhead to a translucent backdrop with waterfalls of foam.
It was an auspicious start to a stylish and sophisticated show, by far the least sexual, starkest and most mature of Rihanna’s headlining productions. It was not without visual pizzazz, though, from the open, cubist stage covered in white fabric to a moving video/lighting screen that hung above the stage and a backdrop that oozed copious amounts of soap suds for the final third of the show.
If Rihanna was trying to make a case that the music matters this time out, it certainly worked. Though the 27-song set whizzed by in just under 90 minutes -- some of which Rihanna spent off stage changing into five muted, earth-toned costumes -- it still conveyed a substantial and potent body of work performed with more confidence than cockiness by Rihanna and her nine-piece band. Even the choreography, with six dancers alongside, was dialed down, leaving Rihanna plenty of time for live singing throughout the show.,
Rihanna was daring enough to end the encoreless show as it started -- not with bombast but with the slow jams “Love on the Brain” and “Kiss It Better.” She can be as much of a pop/hip-hop/soul diva as the rest of her peers, but on Thursday Rihanna benefited from moderation as her creative calling card.
not this turning into one of the most acclaimed pop shows ever
poor Diamonds World Tour
Yeah this will easily be her most acclaimed tour to date. I mean I see why people wanted this tour to be a disaster, she can't stop winning.
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Maybe expectations are another thing Rihanna is “Anti” this time around. After years of playing by other people’s rules, pumping out seven albums between 2005 and 2012, Rihanna is now firmly in control of her own career.
Earlier this year she released her eighth album “Anti,” an unconventionally uncommercial work, which along with recent albums by Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar is establishing a new artistic paradigm for superstar hip-hop that is led by art, not commerce. They are brazen works untethered to expectations of radio or single success, and all three artists seem to be saying the same thing: We’re not willing to bend, so it’s up to you to bend toward us instead.
Rihanna’s show Thursday found her the most confident and assured she has ever been as a performer, and she opened with a virtuoso four-song suite that found her rocking the Palace entirely by herself. No dancers, no backup singers, just Rihanna,
She oscillated between songs from “Anti” and snippets of her hits both a solo artist and a featured act, offering up “Live Your Life,” “Run This Town,” “All of the Lights” and “Umbrella” in one particularly vibrant stretch. When you hear those songs back-to-back (to-back, to-back), you realize the seismic impact Rihanna has had on pop music in the last decade, and there were several No. 1 hits – including “Take a Bow,” “Disturbia,” “Only Girl (in the World),” “What’s My Name,” “S&M” and “The Monster” – that didn’t even make the cut in her set. When you can afford to blow off a half-dozen No. 1s, you’re in a pretty powerful position.
She is currently riding her own wavelength and calling her own shots, and she’s as strong a performer as ever.
here we go.... I knew she would start getting lazy with this song..... by the end of this leg she will sing two words max( what now teas )..... her lazy ass will never change
)..... her lazy ass will never change 