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Originally posted by lonnie
Pon de replay was released in 2005 not 2003, there was no dancehall infused pop song ruling the charts then are we forgetting the monster that was we belong together?
SLY by itself was the only ballad to top the charts, 3 yrs after take a bow did it. Rihanna has had hit ballads before.
And Rihanna already did dancepop in 2006 with S.O.S way before only girl happened.
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So it's suddenly risky to release a dancehall song in 2005 because it wasn't 2003 where most of the songs came from? What about Rich Girl by Gwen Stefani, or the fact that Sean Paul was getting #1s with dancehall into 2006? And sure, Rihanna had hit ballads but the melody and production of Stay is obviously linked to the success of Adele. Lastly, just because you did a style before, doesn't mean that doing it again is not an easy way of getting a hit. It's quite the opposite actually.
Like I said, Rihanna is great at being on trend and not generic. However all her hits were surely not as hard to get there as you're making it out to be.