@DRFENTY You're right. Not everyone can be as untalented as Rihanna, & as gimmicky, & will let her label model her into everything they want her to be just for record sales. You are so right. Not everybody can do everything else, but work on their album while a whole team works on her album ("Loud") & she comes in & throws her lazy, uninspired, creature from the black lagoon vocals on. Some people are actually TALENTED, multi-TALENTED at that. But, unfortunately labels don't wanna support TALENTED people, they rather support a naive, untalented individual whose IMAGE they can mass market & manufacture the puppet in whatever way they want for their own profit, wants/needs. Some people actually are apart of their album making process, but creatively & musically. Actually come up with vocal arrangements, calling on producers & artist to work with, concept ideas for the album, it's imaging, music videos, go in for choreography, write lyric's to their album, think about sounds they wanna do W/ inspiration of that sound on mind & it actually touching people & having a more deep meaning to it.