how do you think rihanna would've done as a reggae singer?

Just listen to Watch n' Learn and there's your answer.

she was suppost to be a reggae act but became a pop act

according to wikipedia, Rihanna was originally marketed as a reggae singer since she burst into the music scene in 2005, with a styles of pop, R&B and dancehall. Her music include various styles of musical genres, including contemporary R&B, dance-pop and the Caribbean music styles of reggae and dancehall.[148] With the release of Music of the Sun and its lead single "Pon de Replay", Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic described Rihanna's musical style as "synthesize Caribbean rhythms and beats with standard-issue urban dance-pop: Caribbean-inflected urban, if you will."[149] Rihanna is described as utilizing "dancehall-lite beats and a reggae vocal cadence."[149] NME describes the singer as a "heady mix of dancehall, reggae and contemporary R&B."[150] Barry Walters of Rolling Stone considers Rihanna's A Girl Like Me to be "lightweight dancehall and R&B jams."[151] After the release of Good Girl Gone Bad, Allmusic's Andy Kellman credits Rihanna to be "as pop as pop gets."[152] Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times described her hit "Umbrella" as a lightweight pop confection with a heavy hip-hop backbeat, a breezy love song enriched by those unexpectedly goth-sounding keyboards and by the incongruous hint of anguish in Rihanna’s girlish voice.[153]

Anyone can copy and paste from wikipedia.

Not that well. She's better off doing what she does.

she would've done terribly as a reggae act.

The answer is as simple as looking at this decade and comparing the scale and magnitude of pop music with reggae music. A rather clear-cut comparison.

Above the fact that a genre is never easy to define - we all know the answer but we would have to be pedantic on genre definition to argue it.

she wont have the success she's having if she had stuck as a reggae singer.

Well there are elements of Reggae and dancehall throughout her music especially on earlier albums and most recently Man Down but overall better as a pop tart

That's why it say's from Wikipedia

an example of a non friendly radio song that i thought shouldve been a big hit

I think they had no idea how to market her. She was light reggae, then r&b and then pop/r&b with a little dance and light reggae, and then Rated R and up to now. Only recently they've found what works for her which is pop with a little r&b twist and the odd west indian tinged song. They need to make the formula good though. I want a full reggae album from her next, I only really jam to Man Down, Watch n Learn, Pon De Replay and Rude boy.

I think the variation in her music has been to her advantage like Madonna know one knows what may come next rather than just pop with a little dance theres something for everyone.

And too right the Man Down video one of her best but for ovbious reasons Rape, Murder not a viable single choice

If you like those, Hole In My Head and Sell Me Candy are also hot imo...

rude boy wasnt radio friendly

It was innuendo rather than outright I wanna be ****ed sans S&M which was far less radio appropriate rather than friendly

I think she would be like 90's reggae fusion artist Patra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfBqBhL6JKU

Already clocked I jammed to them time ago

It could've been if they really promoted it. I loved it, and many did too. It charted well in the US to say only it only had urban radio adds. IMO it would be the best type of music for her to make. Stuff with a point.

Well ri ri is just following what the radio is doing right now and her hits I can see radio playing for along time is umbrella, don't stop the music, disturbia, rude boy, love the way you lie, only girl in the world, and we found love!!

A song about having sex!!

Rude Boy is radio friendly

very mature

no it wasnt

Crap! My arse produces better sounds