Originally Posted by little-monster:
“No she has not at all. Her very first album is very Caribbean urban influenced, which was then carried into her second album. In fact all of her albums have all had urban influenced styles in it. But her and her label have been wise in picking up the more obvious poppy commercial songs. You make it sounds as if she has suddenly turned all urban and ghetto when she hasn't. She's never been a typical pop star. She has always delved into different genres. Many of her influences have been urban artists, she grew up on urban music and most of her music collaborations have been urban artists. This is hardly new territory for her. She's just delving into it a lot deeper than usual.”
“No she has not at all. Her very first album is very Caribbean urban influenced, which was then carried into her second album. In fact all of her albums have all had urban influenced styles in it. But her and her label have been wise in picking up the more obvious poppy commercial songs. You make it sounds as if she has suddenly turned all urban and ghetto when she hasn't. She's never been a typical pop star. She has always delved into different genres. Many of her influences have been urban artists, she grew up on urban music and most of her music collaborations have been urban artists. This is hardly new territory for her. She's just delving into it a lot deeper than usual.”
She was still a pop star, just with an urban edge. What I meant was Rihanna in the general sense has always been seen as a pop star and her pop songs are what she's most known for, , she's doing an album that seems quite experimental and urban, and the public just aren't here for that. Pop Rihanna with an urban edge? Yes. Urban Rihanna with a slight pop edge? No.
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