Rihanna Performs Consideration & Work feat. Drake (BRIT's)

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

6 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Because I want the message to get through. I'm a realist about things. I do think she's hopping on a trend with Anti because ever since ARTPOP, more and more popstars have started trying to be musically rebellious and are taking more risks. Plus, the stuff in Anti sounds a lot like the stuff on modern RnB albums. Being experimental is the new commercial in urban music right now. She wouldn't have done this years back when making commercial urban was where it was at.

I've seen that video before. I still don't think it's all that much to write home about. She's a nasally singer and when she goes for big notes, especially belts, she lacks control and can't push her voice to the extreme she wants. The best performance I can think of is her last X Factor one, but there are still plenty of better vocals out there that make it look like small fry. Most of the time, she sounds like what Britney would if she were from Barbados - that squeaky, girly voice with not a lot of power is shared with her.

Rates R love! bye...

 

[KaanBTW 5,244]

Updated OP with Vevo version. 

[adamsenigma 9,520]

7 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Because I want the message to get through. I'm a realist about things. I do think she's hopping on a trend with Anti because ever since ARTPOP, more and more popstars have started trying to be musically rebellious and are taking more risks. Plus, the stuff in Anti sounds a lot like the stuff on modern RnB albums. Being experimental is the new commercial in urban music right now. She wouldn't have done this years back when making commercial urban was where it was at.

I've seen that video before. I still don't think it's all that much to write home about. She's a nasally singer and when she goes for big notes, especially belts, she lacks control and can't push her voice to the extreme she wants. The best performance I can think of is her last X Factor one, but there are still plenty of better vocals out there that make it look like small fry. Most of the time, she sounds like what Britney would if she were from Barbados - that squeaky, girly voice with not a lot of power is shared with her.

[KaanBTW 5,244]

8 hours ago, KURUSHITOVSKA said:

And no notes were given today! When Madonna at 57 while dancing can actually sing better but she's not allowed to be succesful anymore because she's old. 

I totally agree your point of view but Madonna is not succesful anymore because of her sh*tty songs. #sorrynotsorry

[Gianni Versace 2,987]

7 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

I do think she's hopping on a trend with Anti because ever since ARTPOP, more and more popstars have started trying to be musically rebellious and are taking more risks. Plus, the stuff in Anti sounds a lot like the stuff on modern RnB albums. Being experimental is the new commercial in urban music right now.

what even? lmao

rihanna has always been pushing boundaries i can't

as for the bolded sentence, just what?!

 

[yxi 4,999]

The vocals are not good

[Psychedelic 1,098]

Those visuals are awesome. That's probably what the Gaga Bowie Tribute would've looked like and even better if the Grammy's had better camera angles and broadcast quality but they suck at that. And Rihanna being great as usual, i know she isn't the best singer or dancer but her attitude on stage slays many!!!

[Psychedelic 1,098]

1 hour ago, KaanBTW said:

I totally agree your point of view but Madonna is not succesful anymore because of her sh*tty songs. #sorrynotsorry

Kinda of true, but I think it's more about sh*tty as f*ck single choices than whole s*hitty material!

[ShockPop 7,747]

She is absolutely awful and people scraping the barrel to find something good about her or this performance are idiotic. She needs to be taken out back like a lame dog and put out of our misery.

[jxckk 959]

i actually enjoyed the performance, i didn't think her vocals were as bad as people were making them out to be. 

i've seen worse tbh, bieber at the grammys i'm looking at you. 

[KURUSHITOVSKA 20,451]

6 hours ago, KaanBTW said:

I totally agree your point of view but Madonna is not succesful anymore because of her sh*tty songs. #sorrynotsorry

Living For Love and Devil Pray are not that bad, and her tour is sould out  they don't play her in the radio because she is old, so no promo

[Brian Ryan 1,468]

one of her best uptempo performances Work cannot get out of my head. So inspirational and fun at the same time. Score Rihanna. An album that sold over a million copies, another platinum single, future platinum single, two former platinum singles, and looking hotter than ever, and a sold out tour. That Rihanna reign will never let up.

[LastNight 5,935]

Weak vocals, but I love Rihanna and I love the songs she performed. The production was amazing - the lights were so cool, I loved them. 

[StrawberryBlond 14,917]

14 hours ago, just4fun said:

Rates R love! bye...

 

Still commercial by today's standards. A lot more accessible and easier to connect with than half the stuff on Anti. You can't deny the stuff on Rated R is far more likely to be hit material (which it was, to an extent).

14 hours ago, Gianni Versace said:

what even? lmao

rihanna has always been pushing boundaries i can't

as for the bolded sentence, just what?!

What boundaries has she pushed? She's taken risks by releasing some less commercial singles and albums but less commercial doesn't necessarily translate to boundary pushing. That implies doing something that's never been done before or no one else would have the guts to do. I don't remember Rihanna doing anything like that. Swearing in songs? Singing about drugs? Making songs about sex? Nudity and violence in a music video? What part of this hasn't been done before? Madonna, Gaga, Bjork, Lil Kim, Peaches...love them or hate them, these are boundary pushing female artists. Rihanna has always been firmly in the lane of keeping it safe and looking pretty.

And urban music is currently in the most experimental lane its ever been. Since it started to make a resurgance in 2012, we've had a spate of urban albums that have all taken huge risks but still been successful - Yeezus, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Nothing Was The Same, To Pimp A Butterfly...even Drake's mixtapes are catching some heat. Kanye has always been stepping outside the box, now more than ever. The urban music of today is very different from the urban of the early-mid 2000's where it was all about ultimate genericism and party anthems. Now urban is a lot more stripped back, deeper and some rappers are even singing about actual art and boasting about how intelligent they are. Urban artists of today are more about trying to be suave, sophisticated and cultured (even if they're not). Trying to be more about the music than the money and all that. Rihanna's just jumped right on that trend with her own (as the Grammys referred to it in her 2013 album nomination) "urban contemporary album." The urban that she dabbled with in the past (Pon De Replay, Break It Off, Umbrella, Rude Boy), was so much different to what she's doing now. Unapologetic was her first experiment into this style - Anti is the complete development of it.

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

2 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Still commercial by today's standards. A lot more accessible and easier to connect with than half the stuff on Anti. You can't deny the stuff on Rated R is far more likely to be hit material (which it was, to an extent).

What boundaries has she pushed? She's taken risks by releasing some less commercial singles and albums but less commercial doesn't necessarily translate to boundary pushing. That implies doing something that's never been done before or no one else would have the guts to do. I don't remember Rihanna doing anything like that. Swearing in songs? Singing about drugs? Making songs about sex? Nudity and violence in a music video? What part of this hasn't been done before? Madonna, Gaga, Bjork, Lil Kim, Peaches...love them or hate them, these are boundary pushing female artists. Rihanna has always been firmly in the lane of keeping it safe and looking pretty.

And urban music is currently in the most experimental lane its ever been. Since it started to make a resurgance in 2012, we've had a spate of urban albums that have all taken huge risks but still been successful - Yeezus, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Nothing Was The Same, To Pimp A Butterfly...even Drake's mixtapes are catching some heat. Kanye has always been stepping outside the box, now more than ever. The urban music of today is very different from the urban of the early-mid 2000's where it was all about ultimate genericism and party anthems. Now urban is a lot more stripped back, deeper and some rappers are even singing about actual art and boasting about how intelligent they are. Urban artists of today are more about trying to be suave, sophisticated and cultured (even if they're not). Trying to be more about the music than the money and all that. Rihanna's just jumped right on that trend with her own (as the Grammys referred to it in her 2013 album nomination) "urban contemporary album." The urban that she dabbled with in the past (Pon De Replay, Break It Off, Umbrella, Rude Boy), was so much different to what she's doing now. Unapologetic was her first experiment into this style - Anti is the complete development of it.

TuPac - everything!

Jay Z Watch the Throne 2011

Prince - entire discography 

T.I.  - King Back 2006

Rihanna - Russian Rullette, Hard, Wait Your Turn, Te Amo 2009

Janet Jackson- The Velvet Rope 1997

Janet Jackson - Rythm Nation 1989

urban music has alwaya had albums with deeper meaning it didn't just happen after ARTPOP.  It's not a trend.