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Originally posted by c0caine
I love Rih but it's quite unexplainable why Rated R did the way it did, it's one of the best albums of all time, her looks were the best of any era, she had tons of promo, she discounted it to 99 cents in the 2nd week and yet it felt flat, I blame the fact that the GP for once saw right through the gimmicks of an artist and the whole CB thing backfired on her.
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It was a lot of reasons that it went the way it did. It had no reason to flop on one hand, and on another hand they didn't handle the era well, imo. One reason being that Russian Roulette was too 'dark' for a lot of people at the time. They were used to UmbrellaStopTheMusicTakeABowLiveYourlifeDisturbian na.
Had they gone with a different, more accessible lead single, I think it could've done better. I've alway thought "Fire Bomb" or "Photographs" would've done well.
I think people bought the incident-milking to an extent. It was easy to but into- people hated him SO much. The only people who didn't were teenage black girls who thought it was Rihanna's fault. She definitely overdid it though.
(kylie's X era flashbacks 
I don't blame her tho, she probably felt self-conscious after the cancer. 
I like how he did the performance in an ease walking down a street. 
