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Originally posted by SaneBeyhannaStan
I kinda feel bad for Rihanna. This is the first album she's putting out since the Icon Award, and I know she wants to put music out that is of a certain caliber and is actually a great body of work. At the same time people seem to want her to go backwards and stay very commercial. It's not that she can't do both but it's rare that an artist can go into making an album that's not Pop Fluff with the intention of making hit records and have the GP receive it well.
The GP didn't receive Rated R as well and I think she fears that the same may occur this go around if she decides to dig deeper again musically.
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Janet had a very non-commercial album with The Velvet Rope and came back strong with All For You a few years later, and both were received positively. She just has to regain her confidence in the vision she originally had. It sounds like she keeps second-guessing herself, probably mulling on the idea of putting in Right Now-like tracks or tracks that are clearly filler, but important to her, like Get It Over With.
To me, she's at the age and time in her career where she
should take more risks. She needs to put out that album
she wants; not the GP. She won't alienate them, especially when albums like To Pimp A Butterfly are getting praise. Those are very experimental albums, especially in a DJ Mustard-crazed era.
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Originally posted by Pandora30012
Why do yall keep acting like Rated R is some sort of extremely artistic album, 
Its just a pop album with a very dark sound |
Think about it, going from Hate That I Love You bubblegum pop to G4L is pretty drastic. Even Cold Case Love and The Last Song showed an emotional side that we really hadn't gotten from Rihanna at that time. To me, that's why Rated R is so artistic, because it wasn't Loud, which might have been her album after GGGB if the incident hadn't happened.
? Everyone says she smells heavenly.
She stood in front of me for like 10 seconds but the smell stuck on me for HOURS.
