as long as the music is good ya'll shouldn't care *that* much
ya'll just want her to be super commercially successful but she's Rihanna, she's successful in most everything she does and she can survive a quote unquote flop album, if that's what ya'll wanna already call it
I think it's more that we want to hear her music on a service we actually use and not pay for a **** service for one album.
If Rihanna releases R8 as a Tidal exclusive, then there is a huge chance that Beyonce will release her next album / joint album as a Tidal exclusive aswell. So I don't know why you are so happy, you guys and the navy are in the exactly same bag rn.