Rihanna took centre stage on Good Morning America moments ago to perform a range of old and new material to celebrate this release of new album ‘Rated R’. You can watch the performance of ‘Wait Is Ova’ above, with ‘Umbrella’ and ‘Russian Roulette’. I’m watching these now myself, so review will be up shortly. In the meanwhile…
DREADFUL
ALL RIHANNA DOES IS TRY TO LOOK FIERCE IN THE CAMERA
HORRIBLE VOCALS
HORRIBLE STAGE PRESENCE
Good job, still needs some more vocal trainning and more energy on stage but good…..her album is getting AMAZING REVIEWS…Y ARENT U POSTING THOSE SAM????????????? Her album is very good.
totally fantastic was waiting to see this free performance riri was talking about! again a free event 🙂
HOT AMAZING. Love it. Send in the parade of Ignorant, dumb ass posters who hate everything.
The performance was s***, like all her performances, she shouldn’t be awarded with her crap
This b**** CANNOT SING!! She needs to lip synch!!
Tee: The Realists: My Ears…I agree with you. Her vocal ability is simply not there! I’ve seen better performances of Cassie live! Rihanna is all hype!
No worries, just like Ciara you can only ride the gimmick wave for so long! Her record label should be embarrassed!
Freaking Awful!
SOUNDS LIKE SHE THREW UP IN HER MOUTH
LAWD KNOWS I SURE DID!!!
Rihanna believes she is so darn cute that people actually look beyond the fact she cant sing! RR if sung by the right female could have been a huge song, but Rihanna has practiced the song, she dont sing (cause she cant) but that song has so much potential if it had been given to someone with SOUL and that part of her just standing and looking like she acutally done something made me want to hollar.. The outfit comment was a joke it was just another distraction. She could have put on them black leggins she had on at the signing.. She really got on my nerves. Some one said amazing! what exactly were you watching to come up with that word while watching her perform?
WHAT THE HELL ARE YALL TALKING ABOUT????? Just watched the videos.
She sounds exactly like she does on her cd’s!!!!
If you think she cant sing , why the f*** you keep checking for her??!?!?!!
GET A LIFE!!!!!
@ my ears, r******, still in the business , etc.
GTFOH
At points she sounds good..yeah fool , it’s called a backing track…I’m not saying she doesn’t have a plcae in the music industry but the style, songs, look, and persona she’s trying to serve up…she just isn’t pulling it off. One word Gaga…”G” Bish serves up drama, dance, vocals…brings it! Rhianna needs to return to drawing board cuz the new album, new look, new attitude is WHACK!
All of you hating on her are so ignorant. Completely dumb. Hating for the sake of hating.
You’ve been checked:
METACRITIC = 80/100 for Rated R (Los Angeles Times giving it 100)
user ratings = 8.9 out of 10.
Itunes 4/5 stars based on over 1,000 ratings.
Hate all you want, say all you want but:
RIHANNA TOOK A RISK. MADE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, and PEOPLE LOVE IT.
So if you want your generic McDonald’s Crap, so be it. Stand with Perez Hilton and the trashy ass, dumb ass people who like their sweet syrupy Grape Juice.
Me, a like a nice stiff drink of Rihanna, please.
Eat it!
the performance was decent but she needs more vocal training
lazy as usual, not so good vocals..she sucks big time..the worst..she is not gonna survive..her days are numbered coz ladies in the scene are bringing it..
even jlo and janet with thier old asses move better than her…anyways dnt care coz she is slowing fading…RR= flop of 2009!!
“f by some accident of fate, or maybe record-company cynicism, the new Chris Brown album has arrived at the same moment as his ex’s. The results tempt a reviewer to talk in terms of moral victories, but the real triumph here is artistic. Chris Brown has made a bland, occasionally obnoxious, pro forma R&B album. Rihanna has transformed her sound and made one of the best pop records of the year.”
Rihanna has transformed her sound and made one of the best pop records of the year.”
ROLLING STONE
Rihanna has transformed her sound and made one of the best pop records of the year.”
ROLLING STONE
Rihanna has transformed her sound and made one of the best pop records of the year.”
ROLLING STONE
Rihanna has transformed her sound and made one of the best pop records of the year.”
ROLLING STONE
Rihanna was incredible in all of her performances.RiRi’s album is the best album of the year!!!She is very talented.Rihanna is the future of music!!
I actually think she sounded good.Rihanna like Shakira just has one of those voices that you either like or hate.Whether or not her vocals have improved I cant really say cuz if you really think about it Rihanna hasn’t had that many televised live performances so there’s not that many to judge from. I heard her entire album and I’d say its gloomy rather than dark and edgy like she says. I LOVE Rockstar.I like Wait your turn,Hard,Rude Boy,and Russian Roulette, but I think I have to be in a gloomy mood to appreciate the other songs.Right now I’m just not feelin them.
ok am i the only one who can’t even get this s*** to play? it just sounds like a bunch of static
She’s no Beyonce vocally, we all know that, and sometimes her vocals are a bit off but I still like her songs – she has still put out a good album!! Admittedly though she would need to up it a bit on the live vocals front!
She doesn’t sound great (although she does the Wait Your Turn chorus well) but it doesn’t really matter to me. I’m just glad she sings live when the likes of Britney, Madonna etc mime and turn out crappy performances. Rihanna is always interesting to watch.
It’s because of the Bobs and Nickys of this world that she is still trying to sing, the main word is “TRYING” she should have by now mastered the art of something when performing live and moving. They are talking about the studio enhanced songs not the live stuff that proves the Bobs and Nickys wrong every time she opens her mouth. Everything thus far she has done has been free if she continues to showcase her vocals on this level she will never get a good selling audience. No one in their right mind wants to pay for something like this and I dont care what she has on. Backtracking, voice overs and backup singer dont get it, Rihanna is a terrible performer, singer and she has not grown vocally or on her stage performance. Even Alicia Keys and Mary J at least try and we know for a fact neither can.
SHE DID GREAT STOP HATING SHE SINGS LIVE EVERYTIME AND SHE DID GREAT ON RR YALL WACK UGLY H*** * UGLY MOTHERS
AT LEAST SHE DOESNT LIPSYNCH OR PREDRECORD LIKE JANET OR JLO
umm. It’s because of the NEW YORK TIMES, ROLLING STONES, LA TIMES, BOBS and NICKY’s and a HUNDRED MILLION fans that keeps making music, dumb ass.
rih rih luv the haters.. thats why she stay in the forfront.. yall make her famous.. go rih rih..
i think she did a good job.. who gon check me boo
i cnt hear the sound
I thought she sounded good, better than the AMA’s.
You can’t hear the sounds as I can’t because it has been edited out. Rihanna is terrible in the vocals department and today it’s about selling her ablum so the sound had to be edited. Is it true her label is selling her ablum for $1-$3.99. Went to Walmart and pick up the I AM Yours and it is off the hook. Since i purchase it today already have seen it 3times.Beyonce puts on a show and her vocals are amazing,she gives you back more than yur money’s worth. Rihanna has fashion style and that’s the hype behind her.
S*** Chick, But Voice is not good live at all, but she prob can sing, jus not live!
she is okay. i kinda like wait your turn. she clearly has fans. we will see
S*** I SHOULD BE THE ONE UP THERE SINGIN HER SONGS S*** I CAN DO 100X TIMES BETTER DEN DAT ON MY WORSE DAY I REALLY DONT PAY ATTENTION TO HER LIVE PERFORMANCE I JUS LISTEN TO THE MUSIC I WOULDNT PAY TO SEE HER LIVE BUT I WILL LISTEN TO HER LIVE ON TV BTW WAIT YOUR TURN, G4L AND RUSSIAN ROULETTE ARE MY SONGS… HER BAND SOUNDS HELL GOOD THOUGH. ITS A SHAME PPL IN THE AUDIENCE DONT KNOW WHT THEY R SAYING WHEN THEY ARE SINGING UMBRELLA DEY DONT HAVE A CLUE ILLUMANTI.. BUT SHE DOES LOOK GOOD THOUGH HER ACCENT IS SUPER S*** THATS WHAT DRAWS U TO HER..
Ok I don’t normally comment on this site but I had to say something. To say somebody is ignorant just because somebody doesnt like the same artist that you do is stupid. and ignorant in itself. Also is even more ignorant to not be honest if your favorite artist didnt have a good performance they didn’t have a good performance. I actually like some of rihanna music and think her voice works well on some records like take a bow, distrubia, umbrealla, breaking dishes and some of her previous work., but it still remains if u have a different voice and cant pull it of vocally live rather u sing live or not or you cant perform your ass off then what good are u other than a studio artist. i know someone mentioned ciara earlier …yes she is not the best singer but she dont go out her range and she normally sings live as well and atleast she dance her ass off in most of her performances or have some kinda stage pressence when she dont…..rather the critics say the album is good or not the fact of that matter is the performances for it havent been good….and although russian roullete and hard are ok songs none of which have even been anywhere as good in my opinion are as good as even the gggb.
@ LOS I agree with you. I’m a Whitney fan and got called a hater when I commented that I didn’t think she good at the AMA.
She is supposed to know how to dance and sing, but you wouldn’t know it. She just walks across the stage looking fierce (which she definitely does), but that is not what an artist is supposed to do (including rappers). There is supposed to be something else there to make me want to see you in person. If its going to be like this I might as well just stay home and listen to the CD. I’ll get better vocals there anyway.