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Member Since: 8/19/2011
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Originally posted by ifyouseekLEM
Rihanna's new music is so close together, that the public will be buying Loud only to find out that 'We Found Love' is from a new CD.
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I agree, I remember a couple people thought "What's My Name?" was from Rated R due to the island similarities it has with Rude Boy and the closeness of releases.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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Originally posted by Vin
Then you'd think haters would be happy about it. Let Rihanna overwork herself
and breakdown and that'll be less competition to deal with in the future.
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Exactly. People getting in a tizzy for nothing, so transparent.
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Member Since: 6/10/2010
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Every album is a chapter in Rihanna's life. They all vary because Rihanna herself is like that. It's like a chapter to her soul. Music Of The Sun shows the Girl from Barbados represent her roots. AGLM shows her being Teenager in Love. GGGB shows she's Good Girl going edgy. (kinda like Britney's Britney album) Rated R shows her Dark & vulnerable side. Loud shows she's not afraid of people talking and being loud/expressive. Rihanna constantly grows as a person and artist. She expresses a new side of her & her new grown persona which each album. It's also not the first time an artist release an album year too. Jay-Z, The Beatles, Mariah, Barbra Streisand and various others before her did it too. So I don't see a problem with it to be honest. Unlike most Popstars these days, Rihanna has the ability to release every year without having to suffer the risk of overexposure. If you think about it. Rihanna first two album weren't really out there. She's was only 17 & 18 at the time. Nobody really paid her attention. GGGB is really when she finally became a global. As far as LOUD & this new album is concerned. Rihanna has been absent from the Radio for quite sometime now. 2 flops and Cheers doing well with barely any radio support. Not to mention she hasn't promoted since may nor attended any award shows. So I don't see why it's such an issue. Plus she's young and likes making music.
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Member Since: 6/5/2009
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Originally posted by Hi.Def
Are you a Britney stan or a Rihanna stan? Anyway, I'm sure the Rihanna stans wouldn't even agree with most of the mess you said besides her loving to record music.
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I have always stanned for several artists at once. I'm not limited.
What I said is true. I provided evidence Everyone just refuses to believe it. And the Navy. Erm, a lot are alright, but some of them fail and cave in. One of them reported me yesterday when I said I stanned for Rihanna....
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Lol at people saying that the public is tired of rihanna ! Just look at the responses in the WFL( and count how many s there are ) , everybody stans and non stans are anticipating new rih music and odds are if the single turns out to be hot , nobody will say a word
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Member Since: 10/26/2010
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Rihanna's coming out with new music?!?
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Member Since: 11/1/2010
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Originally posted by BadBitch
Every album is a chapter in Rihanna's life. They all vary because Rihanna herself is like that. It's like a chapter to her soul. Music Of The Sun shows the Girl from Barbados represent her roots.
AGLM shows her being Teenager in Love. GGGB shows she's Good Girl going edgy. (kinda like Britney's Britney album) Rated R shows her Dark & vulnerable side. Loud shows she's not afraid of people talking and being loud/xpressive. Rihanna constantly grows as a person and artist. She expresses a new side of her & her new grown persona which each album. It's also not the first time an artist release an album year too. Jay-Z, The Beatles, Mariah, Barbra Streisand and various others before her did it too. So I don't see a problem with it to be honest. Unlike most Popstars these days, Rihanna has the ability to release every year without having to suffer the risk of overexposure. If you think about it. Rihanna first two album weren't really out there. She's was only 17 & 18 at the time. Nobody really paid her attention. GGGB is really when she finally became a global. As far as LOUD & this new album is concerned. Rihanna has been absent from the Radio for quite sometime now. 2 flops and Cheers doing well with barely any radio support. Not to mention she hasn't promoted since may nor attended any award shows. So I don't see why it's such an issue. Plus she's young and likes making music.
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A whole lot of truth in here. But that last line is really what matters most. Let the girl have fun with what she does.
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Member Since: 4/13/2011
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What's the problem? Back in the 60s, Barbra Streisand was making 3-4 albums a year, while doing movies and she did fine.
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Member Since: 3/20/2011
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Originally posted by BadBitch
Every album is a chapter in Rihanna's life. They all vary because Rihanna herself is like that. It's like a chapter to her soul. Music Of The Sun shows the Girl from Barbados represent her roots.
AGLM shows her being Teenager in Love. GGGB shows she's Good Girl going edgy. (kinda like Britney's Britney album) Rated R shows her Dark & vulnerable side. Loud shows she's not afraid of people talking and being loud/xpressive. Rihanna constantly grows as a person and artist. She expresses a new side of her & her new grown persona which each album. It's also not the first time an artist release an album year too. Jay-Z, The Beatles, Mariah, Barbra Streisand and various others before her did it too. So I don't see a problem with it to be honest. Unlike most Popstars these days, Rihanna has the ability to release every year without having to suffer the risk of overexposure. If you think about it. Rihanna first two album weren't really out there. She's was only 17 & 18 at the time. Nobody really paid her attention. GGGB is really when she finally became a global. As far as LOUD & this new album is concerned. Rihanna has been absent from the Radio for quite sometime now. 2 flops and Cheers doing well with barely any radio support. Not to mention she hasn't promoted since may nor attended any award shows. So I don't see why it's such an issue. Plus she's young and likes making music.
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Member Since: 5/4/2011
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Originally posted by FAN
She is extremly smart.
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kill yo self
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Member Since: 4/17/2011
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And don't Rihanna fail. Her stans are the most fickle things.
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
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Originally posted by Rigalo
But that still doesn't change the fact that the public wasn't entirely here for her, which explains how Rated R only sold a million in the US and that Rude Boy, the biggest hit of the album, is at like 2.5 million in the US. What I'm getting at is that during this era for whatever reason, the public wasn't paying as much attention, and thus most of them had somewhat of a "break" from her.
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I understand the concept, but I don't think it holds much. That's just me, though.
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Originally posted by evo
Rihanna tours are cheap productions. I think they make more money than they cost.
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There's more to tour cost than the productions. Equipment, travel, crew, etc. Overall it all topples on each other.
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Member Since: 5/4/2011
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Originally posted by thegmangrant
[size="5"]Rihanna has been the executive producers of her past two albums.
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Which simply means her name is there next to executive producer, and nothing more.
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Originally posted by thegmangrant
Rihanna is in control of her career.
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It is starting
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Member Since: 5/19/2008
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Originally posted by thegmangrant
Let's get things straight once and for all. You all can try to deny, but you will be wrong. Don't let your hate for Rihanna make your thinking power not work.
Rihanna has been the executive producers of her past two albums. That means she:
Meets with Producers on what she wants (or in Rated R's case she actually co-wrote most of the album)
She chooses what songs go on the albums (She hated Who's That Chick, and it didn't make the final cut. There you go).
She also was the art director of Loud, and comes up with concepts and directs her own videos.
Rihanna is in control of her career. She loves recording music, and she will slow down when she wants to. You all will deal. And her albums are always quality too,and they have a new flavor each time.
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I'm sorry but making a few desicions is like.. nothing. No Doubt is still working in the album and we've been waiting for years ! i think if they're releasing new stuff so fast, it might be because they care nothing but the sales $$$$$ And to make her make (and the stans) they let her decide what to wear.. Sideshow Bob wig in example
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Member Since: 6/4/2010
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Originally posted by thegmangrant
I have always stanned for several artists at once. I'm not limited.
What I said is true. I provided evidence Everyone just refuses to believe it. And the Navy. Erm, a lot are alright, but some of them fail and cave in. One of them reported me yesterday when I said I stanned for Rihanna....
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You didn't provide evidence, and that's exactly why no one believes it. Rihanna stans will tell you themselves they don't stan for Rihanna because she's some deep artist who pours her heart and soul into the studio for months at a time perfecting her album. She makes good/catchy disposable pop music that they can relate to. Her input is limited and if you think it isn't then you're a fool.
Anyway, I'm sure this new album will be good. All of Rihanna's albums are. I personally don't have a problem with Rihanna's rushed releases, but anyone could see why people would have a problem.
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Member Since: 12/28/2010
Posts: 26,529
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Originally posted by BadBitch
Every album is a chapter in Rihanna's life. They all vary because Rihanna herself is like that. It's like a chapter to her soul. Music Of The Sun shows the Girl from Barbados represent her roots. AGLM shows her being Teenager in Love. GGGB shows she's Good Girl going edgy. (kinda like Britney's Britney album) Rated R shows her Dark & vulnerable side. Loud shows she's not afraid of people talking and being loud/expressive. Rihanna constantly grows as a person and artist. She expresses a new side of her & her new grown persona which each album. It's also not the first time an artist release an album year too. Jay-Z, The Beatles, Mariah, Barbra Streisand and various others before her did it too. So I don't see a problem with it to be honest. Unlike most Popstars these days, Rihanna has the ability to release every year without having to suffer the risk of overexposure. If you think about it. Rihanna first two album weren't really out there. She's was only 17 & 18 at the time. Nobody really paid her attention. GGGB is really when she finally became a global. As far as LOUD & this new album is concerned. Rihanna has been absent from the Radio for quite sometime now. 2 flops and Cheers doing well with barely any radio support. Not to mention she hasn't promoted since may nor attended any award shows. So I don't see why it's such an issue. Plus she's young and likes making music.
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mariah carey 1990
emtions 1991
music box 1993
daydream1995
butterfly 1997
rainbow1999
glitter 2001
charm bracelet 2002
the emanciaption of mimi 2005
E=MC2 2008
Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel 2009
her main studio albums was every other year or so not counting the christmas albums
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Member Since: 7/22/2010
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at me thinking this was going to be Foxay giving the Navy a stern talking to for the explosion of Rihanna-related threads
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Member Since: 6/5/2009
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Originally posted by evo
Has to name listed as executive producers, and nothing more.
It is starting
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They don't just hand out Executive Producer credits people. Let's think logically here...
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Member Since: 11/5/2010
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She's young & she's hungry. Point blank period. Leave her be. The fact that she was able to film a movie, create a perfume, go on tour--having to add dates by request in Brazil & 10 SOLD OUT NIGHTS at the O2, sell 5million copies of LOUD WW, and rack up 4 top 10 hits (3 of which were number 1)...not to mention some of the biggest acts on earth are collaborating with her: Coldplay, Britney Spears, etc.
She has the world's support. The fastest rising fandom on facebook.
She hasn't had any kids. She hasn't had an injury. She's not a singer/songwriter. She doesn't have a boyfriend to tie her down. Honestly if she wasn't putting out and album every year I'd be disappointed.
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Member Since: 5/4/2011
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Originally posted by TheOnlyOne
I used Only Girl for exhibit B, because unlike Rated R, it was able to combine excellent quality with excellent sales.
Loud may not be as good as Rated R, but it did what Rated R never could - increase Rihanna's star power and sell like hot cakes. Rihanna would not be as big as she is this moment if she only made albums like Rated R. That is biblical.
The fact that within a year, Rihanna has given us 2 separate albums - a critical and a commercial masterpiece - shows she's doing something right.
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Yes but you asked about the quality of the music, not the commercial success. The quality is dwindling.
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