Look at this leaked Rihanna article :wow:

[Booker T Garvey]

People do this for press releases all the damn time.

it wasn't always like this though

when "BAD" came out the press and critics hated it.

the press was a completely separate entity from the music business

so a negative or positive review held weight b/c music journalists weren't fans or groupies....that day is dead.

you give a negative review to an artist anymore and you've pissed off the whole label, no more invites to industry events etc etc...

everything now is to help promote the music business, it's all fake now.

 

[zerozero]

People do this for press releases all the damn time.

Yes but the fact that you're describing the nature of a song before knowing or hearing what song it is underscores how manufactured and predictable the industry is. Just a look behind the curtain.

 

[zerozero]

Have you ever received a political email? It's only the same same template.

You expect politicians to be crafting their own PR, but if Reuters is pre-writing what happened at a Donald Trump rally days before the rally starts, you start wondering how Truman-Show-esque a world we're living in

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

[Posts an insert post but realizes the joke has run its course but hopes it gets some recognition anyway]

 

[zerozero]

[shows up with random Rihanna pic]

Spoiler

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Yes but the fact that you're describing the nature of a song before knowing or hearing what song it is underscores how manufactured and predictable the industry is. Just a look behind the curtain.

Look behind the curtain?

I didn't realize you guys thought Rhianna wrote all her own songs

Most of the songs she puts out are mostly finished before she jumps on. A LOT of artists are like that you guys like.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

it wasn't always like this though

when "BAD" came out the press and critics hated it.

the press was a completely separate entity from the music business

so a negative or positive review held weight b/c music journalists weren't fans or groupies....that day is dead.

you give a negative review to an artist anymore and you've pissed off the whole label, no more invites to industry events etc etc...

everything now is to help promote the music business, it's all fake now.

I agree but that is a whole 'nother thread breh.

 

[zerozero]

Look behind the curtain?

I didn't realize you guys thought Rhianna wrote all her own songs

Most of the songs she puts out are mostly finished before she jumps on. A LOT of artists are like that you guys like.

Not about Rihanna particularly, more about the music/entertainment/media industry in general.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Not about Rihanna particularly, more about the music/entertainment/media industry in general.

Fair enough

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

This whole thread

 

[zerozero]

[shows up with random Rihanna pic]

[quotes post because nobody clicks spoiler tags 8 pages in]

 

[BreezyH]

a rihanna album deserves anything better?

 

[mrken12]

America is the greatest country of all time. This bytch can't sing, can't dance, is dumb as fukk, has herpes, and she's a pop megastar criticizing people on a talent show and got brehs on here wanting to eat her ass and her p*ssy.

Only in America, nikka.

Excluding the part about America being great, everything you said was on point.

 

[Deutsche Bank]

Excluding the part about America being great, everything you said was on point.

America is excellent unless you're poor. Then it's just not so excellent. Beats baking bread in holes in the ground in Afghanistan, or drinking dirty water in the middle of daily rolling blackouts in South Africa.

America is so excellent, that those dirty ass box body Mexicans you see who can't speak English and live like 8 people to a one bedroom apt? They risked their lives to get across the border and live here like they do. Naturalized Americans are just spoiled rotten.

Only country in the world with fat poor people complaining.

 

[Pazzy]

10 times over.