More ICONIC: Teenage Dream or LOUD?

[Smother Em Eh 7,286]

I mean Katy BROKE records with Teenage Dream and the aesthetic is ICONIC but LOUD had HITS too and Red Haired Riri was a MOMENT in pop culture and set trends by making every female around dye their hair red! 

I mean aesthetically and sonically speaking they’re both ICONIC but I would say Teenage Dream by a hair. 

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[Bronco 26,785]

I'm torn. 

I feel like visually, Teenage Dream may have a longer legacy as visually its still remembered. But like Loud has way stronger hits. 

[Smother Em Eh 7,286]

3 minutes ago, Bronco said:

I'm torn. 

I feel like visually, Teenage Dream may have a longer legacy as visually its still remembered. But like Loud has way stronger hits. 

Visually speaking as in like the look with the blue, pink and purple colored wigs and the candy inspired outfits or the music videos or both? 

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[Blackout19 15,984]

[SevenWonder 4,761]

To me Katy isn't in Rihanna's league as a pop star... HOWEVER, I am giving this to Katy.

Other than Anti, I don't ever think of Rihanna as an album's artist. She is the queen of hit making, but so many of those huge hit songs that we know every word to don't really belong to an album or era to me, they almost seem to exist on their own.

In fact, I often can't tell you exactly what Rihanna song belongs to Rihanna what album. They all kinda blur together. 

But Teenage Dream is very much an era. The colors, the themes, the candy coded vibes. Those songs only fit on that one album. And those songs are all huge. No doubt. 

[Ayesha Erotica 1,926]

Teenage Dream as it has most number one singles on an album by a female artist and the quality of the album is superb.   So many albums have filler songs, while TD is full of hits and you even are happy about the few more clam songs, as they serve as a break form the hits.

I didn't even know that Loud is an album, I knew decades ago but I forgot, I even thought this was between songs and thought Loud is a song before clicking this topic. That being said, Rihanna is a great singer, too, counitng all eras, but the problem with the album is:

The version of S&M with Britney Spears is better and more epic than the album version S&M. So when you listen to the album, you don't have the best song from that album era and only the worse version. And S&M still is the best song on the album.

Only Girl in the World is on the border between good and annoying. Album as a whole is more mediocre.

Loud is more an average, typical album by a pop singer, while Teenage Dream is iconic.

 

[PEZ 6,626]

Based on the music alone, I'd give it to Loud over Teenage Dream, I recall those hits so much more strongly

But based on building an era/aesthetic around it all, I'd have to give it to Teenage Dream, I can picture its imagery so much more clearly in my head

My personal favorite of the two is Loud by far but that's not what was asked 

[Lucas 31,369]

In terms of ICONIC, I'll say Loud because the red hair is extremely recognizable

[gagzus 24,299]

As much as I despise Katheryn she did have the better album the only songs I know from Loud are Only Girl, S&M and What’s My Name.

Teenage Dream I at least know; California Girls, Teenage Dream, Part of Me, Wide Awake and Circle the Drain.

BUT as a British person the chokehold Rihanna’s hair colour and that album cover had on us as a culture on the early 2010s needs to be studied. I’m sure it was so well known her team sued Primark in the UK for using the album image because of the amount of money it made.

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[Controversiaga 16,810]

You can’t actually be asking this question ..

[Defmix100 7,139]

I've only listened to Loud but based on the huge success of singles I'd say Teenage Dream

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 32,062]

In Europe, they both had huge smash hits

I would’ve said Loud based on my own experience, but knowing that half of the singles were only successful here, I have to vote for Teenage Dream…

[Hadrian 2,726]

Unfortunately I'd have to give it to Tenge Dram... I only liked one song off of Loud and it didn't make much of a splash in my life, whereas TD refused to go away lmao.

[MACATL 2,152]

I voted teenage dream, but I honestly consider these equals.  

[StrawberryBlond 15,628]

Teenage Dream, no doubt. Loud had about 3 big hits (as in, songs that are still played or referenced today) and Teenage Dream had 6 big hits (and technically 8 if you count the re-release), so mathematically, it wins by design. Loud may have been big but Rihanna isn't an album's artist to the point where people reminisce about how her albums are pop bibles or anything like they do for other popstars. Her singles exist on their own individual timeline and I bet most people can't remember the non-singles off that album, if they even distinctly remember the album at all. But everything about Teenage Dream was iconic and as soon as those songs start playing, everyone knows what era they were from. If Katy only ever had one album to sum her up, it was that one and no matter how uncool she became, no one can deny how that album was That Girl back then. That album alone is more iconic than Rihanna's entire albumography. I don't care how controversial that sounds.

3 hours ago, Defmix100 said:

I've only listened to Loud but based on the huge success of singles I'd say Teenage Dream

You're really missing out. I know that era isn't exactly for you if you're not into super girly bubblegum pop but it must be listened to in full to understand the legendary status it is. It's also one of my go-to summer albums every year. She could've released even more singles from it if she'd wanted. I would've loved Hummingbird Heartbeat to be one.