Posted May 27, 201114 yr Hi guys! I'm listening to Rihanna since she's appeared and continuing to wonder of her music's variety. R'n'b, rap, pop, dance and finally rock ballade! California King Bed is her best song, indeed. It's extremely interesting for me who is working with her? I don't mean authors, songwriters etc, I mean the main figure who's choosing producers for her, the Big Brother. Does anyone know anything? nhBorPm6JjQ Edited July 18, 201113 yr by FunFan
May 27, 201114 yr Author Yeah, I know, but I mean a person who INVOLVES all of these people for her, kind of a personal manager )) I'm sure there is one Edited May 27, 201114 yr by FinFan
May 27, 201114 yr I'm not sure about it all either. But I'd imagine it's whole team of people. Not just one person. There might be one overall boss, but I doubt he's the only one that comes up with all the ideas. But I agree, that's one of the things that I love about Rihanna. She does pop, hip hop, RnB and dance songs. Probably a reason why she has such broad appeal tbh.
May 27, 201114 yr It's probably because she needs to constantly change to match what's popular in the mainstream at the moment :P and her record label realises that and hence keep changing the genre of her songs.
May 27, 201114 yr I don't think so. It should be a kind of éminence grise ) I love you for using that phrase on Buzzjack :wub: But I don't think there's any one person. She's not a tool of the illuminati either (unfortunately) :(
May 27, 201114 yr It's probably because she needs to constantly change to match what's popular in the mainstream at the moment :P and her record label realises that and hence keep changing the genre of her songs. I don't think so. Like in 2010 alone, she did hip hop (Love the Way You Lie), pop (Only Girl), dance (Who's That Chick?) and RnB (What's My Name?). Infact, all 4 of those songs were in the chart at the same time, so it doesn't make sense that she changed genre to match current trends. :lol: If you look at her dance-pop songs, she's had one a year basically. Pon de Replay in 2005, SOS in 2006, Don't Stop the Music in 2007, Disturbia in 2008, Only Girl in 2010 and S&M in 2011. I think her trick is more like she mixes genres within songs. Like if your favourite genre is RnB, and you don't like dance-pop, you might still enjoy SOS and Pon De Replay a bit because they have RnB vibes in them. Edited May 27, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob
May 27, 201114 yr Author I don't think so. Like in 2010 alone, she did hip hop (Love the Way You Lie), pop (Only Girl), dance (Who's That Chick?) and RnB (What's My Name?). Infact, all 4 of those songs were in the chart at the same time, so it doesn't make sense that she changed genre to match current trends. :lol: True. I think that her management just doesn't want to be obsessed about one genre. And they're good in music, indeed, so almost all her songs are very good. But who, who is the boss? It's ridiculous to believe that it can be Jay-Z ))
May 27, 201114 yr Rihanna is very clever in fitting what is the current trend in music at the moment, i'll give her credit for that/management credit for that :)
May 28, 201114 yr Rihanna is very clever in fitting what is the current trend in music at the moment, i'll give her credit for that/management credit for that :) That's part of the point though, a lot of her songs are different genres, true, but all from the same album and at the same time? Only Girl (and S&M), What's My Name, and California King Bed are all different genres. Which is popular at the moment? Dance-pop, RnB, or piano ballads? She's good at adapting her sound. Music of The Sun is very reggae-influenced. A Girl Like Me kept a few of these influences, but added to it a lot of slow ballady songs, and a few more pop pieces, like SOS. GGGB was a huge step forward. I'd say she didn't fit in, she defined the trend in music with that album. Full of pop, but definitely some RnB in there. Rated R was more an experiment rather than a genre bender, but it even had some dubstep in it (on her C&S produced songs, most notably G4L). No dubstep on Loud, just as that's becoming popular, despite it containing pretty much every other genre. Seriously, you could only really say that 3 songs on Loud are the same genre. You have dance-pop (S&M, Only Girl, Cheers), piano ballads (CKB, LTWYL2), some from her roots (Fading, Man Down), RnB (What's My Name, Complicated). In fact, about the only genre that isn't represented on Loud, out of all those that Rihanna's ever done, is dubstep. Just as it's getting popular. That's not fitting in with the current trend. The dubstep fitted in with Rated R's image for Wait Your Turn and G4L, and that's why she used that. The very fact that that album existed is proof that she's not following the trends.
July 18, 201113 yr Author Yeap, Rihanna's managers keep on producing completely different products :P After "Man Down" I'm ascertaining more and more that it's a work of real professionals B)
