As far as her up tempos go, Rihanna has always struggled to execute the renditions of her cuts live half as well as well as she does in the studio.
However, the same can’t be said when it comes to her ballads or mid tempos. The proof of that pudding was showcased in the earlier part of last week, when she took her ‘Diamonds World Tour’ to Baltimore’s 1st Mariner Arena, and performed her Reggae kissed cut ‘No Love Allowed.
Watch her soar after the jump!
If only she was this good all the time.
Pretty Good.
of course the queen is always slaying.
Digger Bey shut the f*** up. I did not even say anything about Beyonce. Beyonce has many moments in her career that will be remembered. Damn, yall need to stop with these stan wars. I swear yall get paid for this s***!
Wow at last a compliment frm TGJ about time!!!
They getting scared becuase if Rihanna takes a break they will be in the unemployment line!
Im loving this era of Rihanna! It’s one to remember.
I wish beyonce was.
I’ve been to 2 DWT…. Fort Lauderdale and Jersey.. Rihanna killed it each time and to me the ballads are the best. Stay and Diamonds performance give me soo much hope and make me wanna cry at the same time !
I’m going to be positive today….
Although the song she was singing wasn’t hard at all , I’ve seen her perform worse. Kiddos to Rihanna for managing to stay in tune for the whole time that person recorded this video.
DEATH!!!
B**** NOBODY CARES OR VALUES YOUR OPINION YOU FAT F**!!
mmm…its’ aiight but hate the song tho
are you kidding me this song is everything!!!!!!!!, i guess you really have to be a reggae fan to understand the genius in this piece
Mayb if i heard the whole thing id think different. Ill find it and listen to if
Oh she is “that good” all of the time to you idiots.
You’re just too proud to admit it.
It could have been better. She sounded like she had a sore throat!
@Nichole BYE
Unpurchased still struggling to go double platinum in the US, 5 months down the line.. When JT did it in less than 2 months!
FLOP
WELL F** ITS HAS SOLD 3 MILLION WORLDWIDE AND ALL HER SINGLES HAVE SLAYED ANY SINGLE FROM THAT FLOP FLOP THIS WAY!!!
B**** iz yew MAD? When will your fave go platinum in one week? Lady Gaga did it sis.. Sit and don’t stand up till we tell u _/
Gaga? The 99 cent, broken hip queen?
H** sold 1 million in the first week, and 2 million overall! FLOP! 😆
UNA went platinum without ANY discounts (in America) or re releases. STAAYYYYY PRESSED SIS! 😆
b**** lady gaga’s album only shifted 1 million in a weak because it was priced at 99 cents have you seat calmly on a cone though
Yeah even if she does Loud numbers all over again you’d still call her a flop.
I know may people dogged this album but I definetly think this is her best era. Unapologetic is a real good album so good that it scared King B who is unable to give us a song 🙁
Keep trying lol
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I’m surprised that Sam didn’t plug Elijah Blake. Funny, the time when you should promote him, ya don’t. lol
I saw her Monday and she killed EVERY song! The haters can’t go a day without their repetitive, tired shade. #imsleepdoe
lmao, Nice try My Forehead Tho!
Flop!!!
LOLOLOLOL BOI STOP USING MY NAME LOLOLOL!!!
I’m listening to Mariah Carey’s – O’ Holy Night
This woman can sing, the song just reminded how much I love her
She can sing for dayyyyyyyys
Not curry goats which howls like owls
DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
^^ Really b**** -____-
YESSSSS MY IMPERSONATOR IS BACK!!! Give me life babe
And while you’re giving me life…GET A LIFE H**! 😆
Wow!!! Yea, nice try h** now stop using my name h**.
i don’t get it o_o
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. What’s that f*ckin raw fish p*** smell? Must b Hoeianna boney ass lmao. I bet her ass got red and green bumps all up n her c****** and ass crack. Nasty ass slutty B****. Breezy finally left the filthy s***. He was getting tired of f*ckin this S*** and his d*** would swell up and turn all kinds of color. Breezy. Boi u betta get all kinds of diease tests.
S***!
WHO U?! NAME STEALER!!!!
4/5
For Rihanna’s standards: 4.5/5
She can sing ballads much better than dance songs, specially when she’s not moving and there’s no much instruments playing.
youtube.com/watch?v=kBSVpuE5eCc
AND F*CK ALL U HOEIANNA STANS! Stay Ugly, Broke, Bitter and Mad ass hell bwahaahahahahahahhaahahhahahahaahaahahahahhahahahahahaahhahahahaahhahahahahahhahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahaha.
You’re the only mad one here. You are so f****** annoying omg. Go jump in the Atlantic Ocean during high tide. 🙄
B****, go jump off the nearest cliff! You know I stand for them both!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You’re just jealous because your fav can’t get a hit.
Half-billionaires and artists who can get $116M just from 58 tour dates don’t need hit tracks last time I checked..
Any f** H** that doesn’t want BeyaWnce to get a hit is lying. And don’t act like hits don’t bring in sales too f**.She is not as big as her hype if she doesn’t get a hit. Deal
I didn’t say “We don’t WANT HER TO get a hit”, we said “She doesn’t NEED it” when her career is built on much more things than $1 sales and radio airplay.
Yes, I want her to get hits, but only for her albums to recieve better promotion. Not because I’m some pressed 8-year-old singles-obsessed midget who doesn’t know about the existance of anything else in the music industry.
@ Digger Bey
I’m a BeyHive member too but it’d be really appreciated if you change your GROSS Gravatar.
I mean . .
Extremely WHITE skin + BLONDE Hair + RED Lipstick?
I do understand she’s originally a light-skinned Chreole and that heavy lightning could make it even worse, but certainly f*****’ NOT THAT MUCH!!!
She look better white h**! You biatchesssss be hatin on the queen BOW DOWNNNNNNNNNNN, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I’m not a hater and I wouldn’t “bow down” to someone who bleach their skin heavily, specially when they’re supposted to be a role model for African-American women.
She thinks by bleaching her skin she’ll gain more respect but that only made her an official JOKE.
shut up
I liked it :):):):):):):):):)
She slayyyyyyyyyyed!
Wasn’t that good; okay at best if you ask me. I am still waiting for that song that Rihanna will sing completely on-key without relying on the audience to sing the difficult parts for her. I guess my blunt and beer will be the highlight of my night when I see her on tour come October 13th.
She can’t even dance
At least she doesn’t have a 10″ Black d*** in a pair of boxers.
I didn’t say anything about ur MOM
And who are u @H20? I’M NOT CHANGING A MUTHA F*CKIN THING! Especially for an Bandwagon Fake Ass F** like u. Get lost C*nt. THE QUEEEEEEEEN doesn’t want fake f*** like u, n her f*ckin BEYHIVE b****. @ The Fake DIGGER BEY….b**** STOP USING MY DAMN NAME, BEFORE I DRAGGGGGGGGGGGGG UR ASS ALL THE WAY TO AN FIREY HELL!
Crummy c***
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but what if the person imitating is a polarizing icon that should be doing otherwise — someone like Beyoncé?
On Monday (April 29), pop singer Kerli posted a side-by-side photo on her Facebook page of her and Beyoncé donning the same Amato Haute Couture dress. The photo of Beyoncé comes from the pages of her 2013 “Mrs. Carter Show” tour book.
Except, it’s not just the Furne One designed dress — which also Nicki Minaj wore in her “Va Va Voom” video — that’s similar in the photo. Both singers can be seen painted in white, from head to toe, and stylistically posed as sculptures.
No one owns a look, image, dance move (after all, how many artists have pulled out signature Michael Jackson moves?), or in this case, an experimental costume. They’re not copyrighted property, but filed as intellectual property.
Any artist, including Beyoncé, can wear whatever another artist wore, but that multiplicity gets suspicious and easily pegged as stealing. And understandably so, when it’s not only the look of the artist that is being traced, but his or her entire idea.
Beyoncé first caught flak for working up a dance similar to Josephine’s Baker’s iconic banana dance in her “Deja Vu” video, then was seen sporting a skirt with dangling bananas when performing the “B’Day” track. But let’s be honest: that wasn’t that serious, at least not at that point in her 20-year plus career. She later borrowed from Bob Fosse’s routine, “Mexican Breakfast,” in the video for her girls anthem, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).” There are also references to “Rich Man’s Frug” scene (of Bob Fosse’s “Sweet Charity”) in Bey’s “Get Me Bodied” video.
There’s a difference between inspiration and imitation. “Countdown” is a good example of Beyoncé doing both in one piece of work. She references Audrey Hepburn’s “Funny Face” dancing and both Hepburn and Peggy Moffitt’s late 50’s/early 60’s fashion, then elaborates with color schemes and pairs the choreography perfectly with the pace of the soundscapes. She also samples Boyz II Men’s countdown from their song, “Uhh Ahh.”
As the video continues, we see Bey’ using the same choreography, cinematography and costumes that Belgian choreographer and dancer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, used in “Rosas Danst Rosas.” It’s one thing to be inspired by someone else’s work and revamp with one’s personal style, but it’s another to duplicate exact movements, which is ultimately violating the artist’s intellectual property. Context matters.
Before the debut of “Countdown,” Beyonce was criticized for nearly replicating Italian singer Lorella Cuccarini’s live performance with her performance of “Run the World (Girls)” at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards. She later stated that she had hired the same choreographers that had worked on Cucarini’s performance, but it’s still puzzling as to why she didn’t work with them to create a groundbreaking concept of her own.
The choreography, seen in the performance and the song’s accompanying music video, comes from Mozambigue dance troupe Tofo Tofo. Instead of thanking them for the inspiration after the fact, as she’s done with Cuccarini and Keersmaeker, Beyoncé brought them to the U.S. and hired them to dance alongside her in the “Run the World (Girls)” video.
The 2011 song, off her fourth studio album “4” swipes the beat from Major Lazer’s 2009 “Pon De Floor.” According to Diplo, one half of Major Lazer, the making of “Run the World (Girls)” started out as a “joke” (whatever that means).
Beyoncé’s “1 + 1” video features scenes similar to the unfinished French film, “Le’Enfer,” while her “Love On Top” video has dancing scenes much the same as those in New Edition’s “If It Isn’t Love” video.
ut more bothersome than Bey’s inspiration-turned-imitation act – and less subtle as her career progresses – is that she’s playing off the risks that other artists have been brave enough to take (and appropriately praised for) instead of challenging herself and taken some herself.
Perhaps visual and dance concepts don’t come as naturally to her as vocal prowess, but I’m doubtful that she can recruit those for which it does. No shots at Frank Gatson Jr. (but shots?) who is a director, visual artist developer, creative director and choreographer who’s worked closely with greats like Diana Ross, Mariah Carey, Tina Turner and consecutively with Beyoncé.
Even as a vocal performer, Beyonce is more of a canvas than a creator. The majority of her discography was written (yes, some co-written) by other singer-songwriters, from the likes of Ne-Yo to The-Dream. But the formula works for her: she holds 19 top 10s on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with six No. 1s.
The bittersweet side of Beyonce stealing imitable art is that when she does, she does it well. Perhaps it’s why we give the diva a pass, or two, and will in the future. Let’s also not forget that voice of hers and stage stamina that hypnotizes many into disregarding such acts — after all, words and imagery can only strike a chord or transcend to a degree if they’re executed with astounding talent.
When a writer allows his/her bias to show, he/she loses all credibility. It’s no secret that Beyonce is a very “inspired” artist- and I use inspired loosely, but to imply that she’s stealing every time she does something that is similar to another artist is retarded. Clearly Beyonce was paying homage and tribute to Josephine’s Baker when she did “Deja Vu” and male 90’s bands when she did the choreography for “Love on Top”. Had the writer not allowed his/her bias to influence the way he/she wrote the article, he/she wouldn’t have used said examples and few others.
That s*** needs to be written….asap
I want her to do a full reggae album so bad. She is truly her strongest in that field.
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Sam,
Are you going to print the article from billboard? The one where she is getting from dragged for stealing from unkown young WHITE girls. Beyonce has done it again; she has stolen from a poor innocent young white woman. AFTER her tour raps, she should just quit, apart from her stans, the GP are not here for her, there is no way beyonce will gain new fans with all this revelation. WHY does she steal from people? She has no talent. F****** flop.
What has happened to her amy winehouse single? I have yte to see it on itunes, yet Lana del ray song is doing well. Lana song will chart, while beyonce will not.
As for her tour, the only people seeing this tour, are her original fans, but, as her career goes on, she will not gain new fans, she has been trashed by the GP way to much this year.
Trashed for fake GQ photoshopped GQ
trashed for failing superbowl ratings
trashed for endorsing a soda, but doing the michelle obama lose weight
trashed for her terrible ghetto singles
trashed for lip synching
trashed for going to communist CUBA
trashed for stealing young INNOCENT WHITE girls work
HER CAREER IS OVER. THE hatred her is too strong for her to gain new fans needed for top the usa charts/
🙁 Praying for my fav.
And might I add, she has just become an BILLIONAIRE! She can buy and sell ur raggedy favs and ur FAMILY bwahaahahaahahhaahahhaahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhah
Yes b******, i eat, spit, swallow, tea bag, you name it! They don’t call me the truth for nothing!
rihanna is god i love her.
i want a reggae rihanna album next she’s really in her zone at her best when she sings those cuts I slick want her to revive kisses dont lie
rihanna is amazingggg:D i love her
RIHANNA IS THE QUEEN AND YOU WILL ALL BOWDOWN
Bwahahahahahahahaha Me @ Truth and @ H20…..RUNS TGJ! We got Pathetic C*nts wanting to b us. Posting n our names bwahaahahahahaahhaahahahaha. That tells me “I’M THE S***”, cause f*** want me and wants to be me lmao. Keep posting S***** Bastards. Cause everybody knows between the Real and Fake. I luv it bwahahhahahahahaahhahahahhahahahahha
B**** shut the f*** up f*****
ssHUT UP YOU DIRTY F**
shes been good for all of the DWT apart from the two first nights where she was sick and she didn’t do well “what now” …
The king of slaying IS HERE hide your dirty musty blond weave beyDONEce!No love allowed is one of my faves from unapologetic 🙂 loveeeeee dis s***.
this is what made Rih FAMOUS, when i watch this performance, i see a SUPERSTAR, her tone, her vocals, her fashion were UNIQUE, B****** need to take example *cough Rita cough* :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUGry1nRAk
I love the Marley Rihanna, say something! reggae, reggae!
say something! rockers, rockers! 🙂
still struggling .. nd annoying ass voice