No none of her music matches up to Madonna or Mariah even in their primes or at their worst.
Madonna was a revolutionary force. Her image, what she stood for, he dominance, her stage presence. Rihanna could never.
Mariah on the other hand was a power house.. that alone drags Rihanna. People get it confused just becuase she has #1s and some success.. that makes her comparable to people who have proved their self and made a name for their self LEGENDS. This is disrespectful to even consider it.
Rated R is her Velvet Rope and she reminds me of Janet in the way her career has been going, the first 2 albums were flops then they suddenly blew up and had plenty of #1s and records broken and continued being successful I think the only difference is that Janet's emo depressing album was succesful and Rihanna's wasn't, other than that I think her careers are similar.
Madonna can actually perform and move on stage, and Mariah can sing on key at least for 10 seconds, so no.
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Such an ignorant analogy. Out of everything she is, you reduce her to her race. Simple and archaic.
And obviously she's more like Madonna, though i don't understand the need to refer to her as the "black" version, anymore than referring to her as the Barbadian version.
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Rihanna is Rihanna. Getting compared to those legends is an insult.
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Rihanna draws inspiration from all of them in different eras. Her fashion during GGGB was Janet to the extreme. Her fashion for this era is very Mariah/ 90's. But yeah, she pulls the Madonna card the most with a reinvention every era. She dyes and changes her wardrobe. Anyways, it's hard to say which one she uses the most, considering we haven't seen this era.
