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Celeb News: The Monster Tour reviews
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Originally posted by RedRed
Rihanna may not be the best vocalist/singer but when she is on the stqge there is just really something so appealing about her. From what I jave seen on the Monstertour tags from instagram, Em and Rih really put on a good show.
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If u care this guy recorded many songs 
You Tube
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certain fanbases are obviously very damn pressed by Legends Em an Rih today 
that powa !
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Originally posted by M A R C
Love to see the Hive participate in things about Rihanna.
But i have a question.
Why bother the Navy, trolling all day in our threads, when your faves tour is supposedly doing well?
Leave us alone and go in the OTR thread.
Y'all say Rihanna is not a threat but yet y'all stay perched in threads about her.
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Biggest Black Female of Our Generation slaying
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The Beyoncé fans need to stop embarrassing themselves.
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Out with the gold, in with the bold.
Less than a week after Jay Z and Beyoncé vacated the premises, Eminem and Rihanna moved into the Rose Bowl on Thursday night for the first of two concerts to launch their shared Monster Tour. It’s the summer’s other road show pairing a superstar rapper with a superstar singer, and like the Carters’ On the Run trek it took full advantage of the stadium setting, with fireworks, a powerful live band and stories-tall video screens that flashed elaborate filmed sequences.
But where Jay Z and Beyoncé used their gigs to burnish their joint reputation as music’s royal couple, Eminem and Rihanna roamed the Rose Bowl’s enormous stage as dogged troublemakers, rousing the rabble over which Mr. and Mrs. Carter coolly rule.
“Can’t tell me nothing,” Rihanna declared in the show’s opener, “Numb”; minutes later, Eminem was growling his way through “Won’t Back Down.” Anyone keeping track of how many times each of them claimed not to give a damn (or something like it) would’ve quickly lost count.
Which didn’t mean the two artists incited the enormous crowd in the same way. Performing together and separately over the course of the show – a nearly three-hour production set to travel from Pasadena to the New York City area before concluding in Eminem’s hometown of Detroit – the singer and rapper channeled dramatically different energies as they moved through songs that covered just as much stylistic ground.
Eminem attacked his songs with old-fashioned ferocity.
Rihanna was pure bad-seed swagger in “Phresh Out the Runway” and “Birthday Cake,” dark R&B tracks buzzing with serrated synth lines set over beats you could feel in your chest. “Rockstar 101” added squalling riffs from her guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, of the hair-metal band Extreme. And for “Rude Boy” and “Man Down,” she rode springy Caribbean rhythms that pulled from her childhood in Barbados.
Throughout much of her main solo set, the singer, wearing baggy pants and a jacket emblazoned with flames, was surrounded by a crew of dancers doing tightly choreographed moves – the same setup employed by any number of other female pop stars.
But as often as Rihanna joined them, she stood apart, allowing her scowl to speak for itself; she let her backup vocalists carry a similar load at points, as in the chorus of “Where Have You Been.” In a smaller venue, the effect might’ve been stultifying, but here it was thrilling, a kind of sermon on rejection.
Eminem, in contrast, attacked his songs with old-fashioned ferocity, bearing down on the music as though he could extrude its adrenaline and pass it on to his fans. Built on a sample of Billy Squier’s “The Stroke,” “Berzerk” surged with rap-rock intensity, while “Kill You” delivered a stream of violent threats only made more menacing by the tune’s bouncy groove.
After zooming through an absurdly fast double-time verse in “Rap God,” the MC’s shoulders slumped as he sucked in air; he seemed physically spent, as though he needed a break. But Eminem didn’t take one. Instead he launched into a pair of songs with unprintable titles and then did “Criminal,” about how no one can stop him.
For all the differences in the ways they embodied a sense of defiance, Eminem and Rihanna were united Thursday by a shared maudlin streak, a weakness for melodrama that cut against the misanthropy. It was there in her “Stay,” a stripped-down ballad in which she showed the frayed edges of her voice, and his “Not Afraid,” which he dedicated to “anyone who’s ever lost someone to addiction.” (The morbid anthem came from his 2010 album “Recovery,” inspired by Eminem’s struggle with prescription drug abuse.)
And the big emotions bridged the gap separating the two in the songs they performed together, such as “Stan,” where Rihanna sang Dido’s reassuring vocal hook, and “Love the Way You Lie,” their hit duet about a destructive romance.
The first date of the Monster Tour ended, of course, with “The Monster,” Eminem and Rihanna’s meditation on a different toxic relationship: the one between a celebrity and his or her renown. It was adding to the idea that these two can see through hero worship – and that they want you to see through it too.
Then again, the song climaxed with a showstopping display of pyrotechnics, proof that even rebels crave a little shine.
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LA Times
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Originally posted by Rafaela
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Anyone keeping track of how many times each of them claimed not to give a damn (or something like it) would’ve quickly lost count.
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The first date of the Monster Tour ended, of course, with “The Monster,” Eminem and Rihanna’s meditation on a different toxic relationship: the one between a celebrity and his or her renown. It was adding to the idea that these two can see through hero worship – and that they want you to see through it too.
Then again, the song climaxed with a showstopping display of pyrotechnics, proof that even rebels crave a little shine.
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They get it!
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Originally posted by GeezusHaberdash
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That was rude 
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Amazing how Eminem has been in the industry for so long and continues to improve and perfect his craft. Sounds like he did a great job.
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Eminem eclipses Rihanna at Rose Bowl
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Eminem proved, once again, to be a powerful force, coming out strong, fast, hard and never missing a beat with a performance that vastly outshone his co-headliner Rihanna’s turn. The 26-year-old singer struggled to hold her own alongside the 41-year-old Slim Shady. Her signature sultry eyes, which captivated during her first few tracks, became more vacant and zombie-like as the first part of her set rolled on.
Though she was actively participating alongside her eight backup dancers, the mic was thrown out more toward the audience than in front of Rihanna’s lips, leaving some top-notch backing vocalists and a variety of backing tracks to carry her through.
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/e...nna-first.html
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Originally posted by Maybe Later
The Hive really need to get a life even tho Rih has no new album they stay at her , PATHETIC !!
She did great , looked great and had a great time but yoo keep up the obsession !!
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''the hive really needs to get a life''
abrasive & off-topic & pointless & flamebait.
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Originally posted by GeezusHaberdash
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Entertainment Weekly used to love Rihanna. I wonder what happened last night 
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Originally posted by GeezusHaberdash
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I'm really tempted to go see Eminem but this tour is only 6 dates, correct? I'll probably have to catch his next tour.
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Originally posted by Drais.
I'm really tempted to go see Eminem but this tour is only 6 dates, correct? I'll probably have to catch his next tour.
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its gonna be a long wait  these performances are his first non festival performances in America since 2010
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Originally posted by Superpower
Entertainment Weekly used to love Rihanna. I wonder what happened last night |
Entertainment Weekly is not a person, they have people who write articles they all don't share the same brain.
Plus it got a B+
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Originally posted by IsidoraMarí
Entertainment Weekly is not a person, they have people who write articles they all don't share the same brain.
Plus it got a B+
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Eminem, ha power 
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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so much praise
seems like a great show
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Originally posted by GrandMomCookies
Not her buying reviews too jay brown has no shame
The show was off and she was stiff and looked lost like many of you said when you seen the video
On some **** I **** with Rihanna but I'm not going be a yes man to no artist and this was wack the outfits was cute tho and the shade in that makes it self
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"Too"? Doesn't that mean that you openly recognize?.. ...  
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I mean... I do understand if it's Entertainment Weekly. But... "orange country register", what? Do they really care this much to find these reviews? Power 
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