Her run atop the Hot 100 may be unmatched by any of her contemporaries, but it seems Rihanna‘s live act continues to fall flat with every attempt it makes to wow her audience.
Unfortunately, while her more staunch supporters may have found ways to overlook her shortcomings on stage, the Australian press struggled to do the same when forced to review her recent ‘Diamonds World Tour‘ stint in the nation.
What they said?
Review roundup below!
“It’s hard not to be cynical about the kind of show that will be put on by a performer who makes more headlines for public spats, tweeting notes on a Thai sex show and posting an illegal snap with a protected animal, than her own gigs.
But she’s also released seven albums in seven years, won six Grammy Awards and has a Twitter following of more than 30 million people.
So I wanted to be impressed with the two hour show put on by Rihanna for the Australian premiere of her Diamonds World Tour, but I just wasn’t.
Bored and restless fans had waited inside the Perth Arena for her to take the stage, the delay inching ever-closer to the three-hour wait suffered by her Boston fans.
More than 40 minutes late, she appeared on-stage sporting a mullet and within the first minute had begun grabbing and rubbing her crotch – something that continued unabated for most of the show (and for those playing along at home, was accompanied by lyrics like “come and put your name on it” and “boy I wanna f— you right now”).
The spectacle of the crotch-grabbing might have been lessened had most of the audience been singing and dancing along, but the first 10 songs included just one single – Talk That Talk.
She dedicated the first half of her all-ages show to what she referred to as “this reggae ****” – the nod to her Barbadian roots was jointly appreciated by some fans and a source of boredom for others.
While slurring marked the first half of the show, it was her disinterest in singing along to more than half the words of each song that marked the second half.
Largely carried by her back-up singers and backing tracks, she danced across stage with or without her microphone at her mouth, to much the same effect.
But when she changed gears from the reggae and kicked off a run of singles with Rude Boy, the change was palpable. Hands skyrocketed into the air and seated fans jumped to their feet.
When she followed with What’s My Name, her lyrics were echoed back at her by thousands of enthusiastic fans waving their phones in the air and jostling for a better view.
Six costumes included what appeared to be a pair white pants, but were actually crotch-height boots, a red and yellow leather bustier and pants with see-through mesh sides and a silver hologram costume.
Much of the audience – significantly comprised teenage fans – remained standing for Rihanna’s Umbrella, All of the Lights, Rockstar, Take A Bow, Hate That I Love You, We Found Love, S&M, Only Girl in the World and Don’t Stop The Music and gave mostly positive reviews on Twitter of her performance.
Barely a trickle made their way out before she returned for an encore and finally smashed it out of the park vocally with Stay and Diamonds.
“Thank you guys so much for reminding me of what Australia’s all about,” she said at the end of the near-sold out gig. “This was the perfect way to start this tour.
“I’m spoilt; I mean the rest of Australia don’t really have to bring it because you guys are top f—ing notch. I can’t wait to come back here.”
Oh no!
Excerpt from Yahoo Australia‘:
Speaking of Barbados, Rihanna seemed most at ease rolling through the five-song second act of reggae numbers better suited to her patois. This featured the first No. 1 of Tuesday night in the rowdy Rude Boy.
The singer – well, part-time singer – was joined by two backing vocalists and a muscular rock quartet featuring lead guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, formerly of Boston rockers Extreme and ex-husband of Baby Animals singer Suze DeMarchi.
This was the first time Rihanna had kicked off a tour in Perth, previous visits in 2008 (with then boyfriend Chris Brown) and 2011 finished at Burswood Dome.
“This was the perfect way to start the tour,” she said during one of the brief audience interactions. “You guys are top f…ing notch.”
Wish we could say the same about her.
Rihanna isn’t the best live singer (that’s Beyonce) or best dancer (Beyonce, too), and she doesn’t have the best production (Lady Gaga). She’s prolific but not as hard working as Kylie, Pink or Dolly.”
Sorry about it.
Excerpt from ‘In My Community’:
“Those who paid upwards of $100 for their tickets must have also been wondering where their hard earned dollars had been spent as her stage lay incredibly bare by today’s concert standards.
Relying heavily on her backing vocals, forgetting her lyrics and appearing disinterested, Rihanna did present a catalogue of songs that kept her biggest fans happy, covering everything from Rude Boy, Umbrella and What Now to the dance-inducing We Found Love, Only Girl in the World and Don’t Stop the Music, which was performed in a fun, hologram dollar bill mini-dress.”
People raved about Pink’s record-breaking The Truth About Love Tour earlier this year and are certain do the same when Beyonce graces our shores again in October/November, which made Diamonds even more disappointing.
What a shame.
that’s because one has talent and the other one just have a lot of fans
preach it boo! #beyhive that’s why number of fans doesn’t matter when u have 0 talent. thank God we stan for the Queen of talent <3
beyonce has has had bad reviews too from her rip off tour from the indian press TGJ don’t report it
Nothing in comparison to Rihanna. Almost everywhere shes performed complained about her. Everywhere Beyonce has performed has praised her performing.
thief beyonce ” Jennifer Lopez Dance Again ” Rip off tour was NOT FLAWLESS.
. She has not had good reviews on every show bey-thief has gotten bad reviews from fans and the media.
lip sync
being late
exposing herself to the crowd.
Nothing in comparison to Rihanna still. Most of he reviews have been good, most of Rihannas have been bad. Sorry but its true.
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Oh kiiii this just gets better and better lol.
Miley cyrus is better than both… no lies.
I like miley but…NO!
LMAO EVEN MILEY HAS TO LAUGH AT THAT ONE…
looks like the industry wasn’t the only thing SLAMMING into that ho
Well all they did was state the obvious. And its prettier obvious her mind was going to be somewhere else after this Teyana fiasco, Rihannas not professional like Beyonce she will let it show on stage.
Plus Beyonce is doing way more dates in Austrailia than Rihanna due to huge demand yet shes supposed to be ‘washed up’
I mean pretty obvious
yes and beyonce is doing 14 SOLD OUT shows in aussie! bey broke the record for the most shows in aussie history. only her and gaga were able to do that <3
Overall, this hasnt been a great week for Rihanna and the Navy has it? Lol
EVERYBODY PUTS THE HATE,SMACK DOWN ON RIHANNA,QUESTION IS THEY ARE AFRAID SHE IS GETTING TO MUCH SHINE…ITS TIRING,THE “SOS”…
People has spent years on trashing Rihanna Efforts,
With Rihanna and Beyonce Performances
Beyonce is seen as Beysus, PERFECT, and can’t do any wrong,
Rihanna is still working on it, and has not had the voice lesson, and dance,charm school credential Beyonce has behind her. nor do Rihanna have 50-million dollars riding with her,,,
Bash Rihanna and post on her tireless efforts to stay a float all you want.
There are many who have more talent then Rihanna and isn’t doing nothing but sitting on their fat asses talking shyt and bashing the hell out of all of Rihanna efforts good are bad.
Rihanna is even bashed when she get a hit are sale music , when she get another wax figure because Beyonce has more then Rihanna and all the other artist dead or alive.
In reality and the real world, you haters are impossible.
Haters less see how this year end since its clear that all of you are hell bent on trying to make Rihanna as miserable as ever.
Bey Hive are Twitter thugging Rihanna and everything they can to try and hurt Rihanna, but the more you bash Rihanna the better it will always be for Rihanna and her navy who yall hate with a passion.
Haters by all means keep taking cheap shots at Rihanna and until we read or see others who are sitting on the side lines doing better then Rihanna . Kiss Rihanna and her Navy behinds, far and wide.
Because its clear Rihanna will never be able to please her haters and the Media who hounds her endless.
Get off her c*** already.
u cant blame Sam, hating on Rihanna is e only he can get some hits
I hate to say this but rihanna needs to wake up too much weed is not good beyonce can afford to never put out an album because her tour will always sell rihanna drop your friends melissa needs to go you are sinking your career next year ber tickets wont sell katy said her entourage is hurting her I thought I saw some changes in her now she digress to her old ways your 25 time to grow the fuc up
And shes 25 years old, she should be at her prime, yet shes performing like legends with drug abuse after 30 years in the game.
Katy Perry done came for that Hot 100 wig already.
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#stadiumlife indeed…..
#stadiumkilla
Chris brown moved in u need to why are u messing up your career we I think she dont care she will when nobody buy her tickets I hate to say this thenall the haters willbe laughing melissa is not a good friend to ri I think she enables her bad behavior weed is bad too stay off twitter how long she keep been a mess u 25 grow and build your career she needs therpy
#industrypussy
Although i dont think that Beyonce sings live all the time at her concerts, i feel that Rihanna needs to master the technique of lip syncing during portions of her show if only to keep these negative critiques of her shows
Bullyanna and her bully fans deserve this tbh.
Exactly. Where’s are all the navy claiming the little monsters were the biggest Internet bullies?? LOL…I guess they are quiet now.
Riri is not having a good week.
Duh we all know Rihanna is horrible. That’s what’s drugs do.
How can you support someone like that?
Rihanna is an junkie, alcoholic, cyber bully, and a s***.
No one is as stupid as to think your comment won’t be sent unless you enter “thatgrapejuice dot net” in the website box but @ Beysus Over Jesus.
You’re not a Rihanna stan if I’ve lived for a day
$100 a ticket? And people have the nerve to say Beyonce is milking her fans just by performing her old songs (that her fans still love) when this broad cant even be bothered to put on a half decent show even after all the SCATHING reviews? My goodness the G**** and their double standards.
This week for Rihanna
First Singapore rips her to shreds
Then Teyana rips her to shreds
Now Australia is ripping her to shreds.
#PawDat
!!!!!
Thank God the money isn’t even going to her pocket though …
I mean after four world tours and about $200M on Forbes, her NW is $90 million ? 🙄
And that lawsuite revealing she’s only keeping 6% her tour gross ……………………………..
BEYONCE IS THE BEST PERFORMER ALIVE
No lies here
Please, I was there at her concert in Perth and all these reviews and lies! She was amazing and vocally amazing! When I heard these reviews I couldn’t comprehend what show they were as she was on fire her in Perth. These reporters want a role modal and rihanna isn’t one, so they stop at nothing to bring her down.
THATS BECAUSE YOU HAVE LOW STANDARDS
I would rather see high b**** Rihanna than boring, lip sync b**** Mariah tbh
exactly! even the singapore show, which i was at, got raving reviews by the press and fans. only a handful of the 65k ppl complained abt her lip syncing some songs. Sam is just highlighting negative reviews to get the hits this site so desperately need
65.000 out of 65.000 complained about her lipsyncing ?
Wow!
b**** dont u know how to read?! “ONLY A HANDFUL of the 65k ppl complained….” time to go back to school and stay there!
I am seriously getting used to bad Rihanna views which is not good.
I wish people would stop blaming this miserable b****** problems on weed. I smoke weed damn near everyday and act nothing like her. Rihanna is not the only artist to smoke weed. S*** there have been performers who smoked crack and were 100000 times better than her. She is just a lazy, immature, catty, insecure, boring b****. It doesn’t matter though because people are gonna support her garbage regardless. And to think I was a fan at one point (06-2010)
LOOOOOOL
Not Cher selling 60K of her floppy disc. FLOPer is predicted to sell 60K even after kissing Caca’s.
Cher is like 70 years old. She has nothing left to prove. Worry about Rihanna’s 8th album bew bew.
Lmao excuses, A Flop is still a Flop.
But didn’t you say Ciara who is young enough to be her granddaughter and couldn’t even sell 60k wasnt a flop?
Ciara is an R&B album though, R&B isn’t doing good at the moment.
The excuses. She got outsold by Tamar and that chick from that reality show WITH all that promo. FLOP!
^ But Tamar has no gold single 😆 😆
and her sales slipped 70% second week
she’s only at 140k this week & Ciaras closert to her sales, despite vince buying up all her copies
BOTTOMLINE is Tamar on her 2nd album, on ciara’s 2nd album she went plat in 5 weeks
worry about your fave, ugly
Ciara singlehandedly brought R&B back to Black audiences & NO ONE else besides Mariah performed well this yr w/ R&B
Tamar is actually at 170k and a 70% drop is natural.
LOL TAMAR’S ALBUM IS STILL IN THE TOP 20 WHILE K. MICHELLE HAS FALLEN OUT OF THE TOP 50, AND CIERROR IS NONEXISTENT ON THE CHARTS.
R&B IS DOING FINE. IT’S THE FLOPS LIKE CIERROR AND K. MICHELLE THAT ARE NOT LOL
MDNA 300K first week, Cher, whatever the f*** her album is called 60K, after riding Caca’s c***. FLOP FLOP FLOP.
LOL YOU FORGOT TO SUBTRACT THE 185K THAT MADONNASAUR HAD TO GIVE AWAY WITH CONCERT TICKETS, EVEN AFTER SHE RODE GAGA’S NAME FOR PUBLICITY.
AND MDOA IS STILL THE BIGGEST FLOP ALBUM IN HISTORY. BIGGER FLOP THAN ANY CHER ALBUM.
FLOP FLOP FLOP, MADONNASAUR IS THE QUEEN OF FLOPS LOL
Madonnasaur rofl…
So after riding Caca’s c***, tweeting and retweeting Caca and being called “queen” by Caca’s 30 million zombies, FLOPer will only sell 60K.
I bet this album won’t even do 300K can’t be tamed by Mikey.
Samantha, what happened to Celine Dion’s FLOP me back to retirement?
BETTER THAN RIHERPES FLOP RIGHT NOW
Speaking of h*****, did you have yours treated with all that d*** sucking you did to get FLOPause to chart ?
B****, applause was in the top ten since it debuted so stfu.
Celine has a f****** real respectable career with sales Rihanna will never see. How can you look yourself in the mirror? lol Why don´t you worry about Britney Spears selling less tickets in her first year in Vegas than Celine in her 10th year??????? LOL Celine will sell albums, the right amount for a person with a career since the 80´s and after being absent for 6 years from the charts, she doesn´t care about singles charts.
Mariah > Celine
Madonna > Cher
Everyone else including their momma > Diana Ross.
LOL FLOPRIAH HAS 3 FLOPPED SINGLES AND AN ALBUM NOT GETTING RELEASED BECAUSE IT WILL BE HER 5TH FLOP ALBUM.
MADONNASAUR HAS THE BIGGEST FLOP ALBUM OF ALL TIME EVER AFTER GIVING AWAY FREEBIES FOR CONCERT TICKETS. HER 4TH FLOP ALBUM.
LOL KEEP STANNING FOR FLOPPED HASBEENS HON
Mariah Carey does not have 4 flop albums liessssss
Lol! A Kelly Stan Has no right to call anyone Lazy kii
No actually I don’t have low standards, I have tickets to beyonce in 2 months and I’m so excited as I know she will be amazing. But people just look to pick out the bad things with rihanna because she is an easy target. But again was actually at the show and was expecting her not to try, but she was really good. People need to give her break. Cold case love gave me life!
Not a fan of either, but Beyoncé is more talented then Rihanna, well most of the industry is. Rihanna is nothing but a childish, insecure little girl who needs to grow up. She spends most of her time on twitter/instagram throwing shade instead of putting all that energy in things she doesn’t do like: write her own songs, actually show up to a concert/event on time, sing live and sound good while doing so, learn how to dance, perform, and entertain a crowd. Her performances are tragic. How are you one of the most popular artists of this time, but you spend so much time throwing shade online at other female singers, I guess any singer with talent is a threat to Rihanna since she has none. If they weren’t she wouldn’t be focusing on them, but her fans. She don’t even respect her own fans either. She’s a gimmick, a overrated sellout.
of course Sam is going to post negative things about rihanna and won’t even look at the positive reviews she got from the show either way people stillcame to see her and people are still going to see her in the near future regardless of the negative s*** just like people are going to see beyonce regardless of her repetitive performances and no new material out which I still think its a waste of promo in her case but oh well! everyone is not beyonce if they were music would be zzzzzzzz
I see NO lies though..I would NEVER pay to see Rihject live! She’s a SINGLES ARTIST and sold her soul for fame and success! That’s the only way such a horrible singer, with no talent, and basic looks, has got this far! Smh
Thank God for that, we wouldn’t want your ghetto ass with hood mentality at a Rihanna show anyway.
Rihanna wants to be ghetto and hood so bad.
LOOOL Dont worry i wouldn’t dare waste my coins! But i find it ironic that you “try” to put me down for having a “hood/ghetto” mentality, when you support Rihject who portrays that? Smoking CRACK and weed! Ghetto hairstyles(mullet), saying she’s obsessed with Chris’s d***! She has a RATCHET hideous bestfriend! Pour it up was just as RATCHET as you claim Bow Down to be!
I guess you’re just a LAME who wants to be ghetto, but can’t pull it off! 😉
Are we really surprised anymore?
Almost every other article on this bytch is about Rihanna…I mean shyyyyyyyt!!!!!
I’m not gonna get into the beyhive RihannaNavy war…but I will say this…. It’s quite sad when you go to a concert and can tell that the artist just doesn’t want to be there. I really hope Rihanna finds that happiness again, and really starts to understand how valuable the fans are. She has never been an AWESOME performer, but to keep being late and just show lack of interest is becoming her “thing”, she will surly fall… The Rihanna Reign will end……which is quite sad because you can talk about her vocals all you want, but the girl can make a catchy hit. #LOUDera #GGGBera plz
Haha This s*** is amazing Rihanna’s true colors are showing and it’s about damn time, I hopped of the ship 2 1/2 years ago and I’m finally seeing navy fans hop off the ship on twitter. Reality is finally slapping her in the face. But ayeee she is a crappy performer with a terrible stage voice.
Rihanna has made it and can retire tomorrow if she
wanted to, and if rihanna is so bad then why do this site post on her and why do the hive keep her on their minds, brains and in their heads, that is what time it is.
There must be something about this girl , and what other artist doing it like her beside Rihanna .
As long as this site can write up all the Negative reports on Rihanna and laught out loud behind the scenes at how big a fool many of us are, keep laughting because Rihanna will get the last laught on her career. You try to sweeten the pot for her off and on to try and keep the navy coming back I suppose there is just something about this artist named Rihanna, go ahead and trash Rihanna and praise Beyonce and keep writing all the NEGATIVE on her and keep nothing but Good things going for Beyonce, and later on down the road, watch and see the true Goodness of Rihanna goodness will still shine through as the noon day sun. Rihanna’s glory,goodness,endurance,and strengths will keep
keep coming back to bite her many haters in the ass.
And about that 100
-million net worth,that is a lot of $paper for a chick that get so many bad write ups about her performances and how she can’t sell albums, shes a single artist, well singles make money too, many wished they did have as many singles as she have sold.
There’s a dead cat on the line some place because how can Rihanna sound and perform so bad yet Beyonce had only made less then 7-million more then Rihanna had for the first six months , seem to me Beyonce should have made twice as much as her WHO THEY CL,AIM IS SO BAD ON STAGE, AND TRYING TO MAKE HER DRUNK WHEN SHES SOBER, BULL. Haters and some Media is saying, ARE am i missing something. 2+2 IS STILL FOUR OR IS IT FIVE NOW.
EVERYBODY IS PISSED WITH RIHANNA EVEN TOP SHOP FOR GETTING THEIR ASSES SUED, AND RIHANNA WINNING
This site Rarely post on the positvity that surround Rihanna it’s all way the bad,but its okay keep living,keep right on exhaling,the best is yet to come.
It is a very good sign as to the power that is Rihanna since shes compared to Beyonce her MOMMA all the time more then she is any of her peers like the under thirty something .
WHERE ARE ALL THE OTHER UNDER THIRTY YEARS OF AGE ARTIST,WHAT DID THEY DO ON TOUR?
LOL WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING A MEDIOCRE TALENT WHO’S CAREER WAS CLEARLY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR HER?
Not surprised. I wouldn’t call Rihanna a entertainer, but more of a beautiful singer who can carry a tune. I definitely think her style/looks/swag carries her a long way….I think that if Rihanna looked like Fantasia but had her voice there’s no way she’d be famous imo…
Haha look at birdshits burnt ass trying to bring up a senior citizen, like Cher, just to divert attention away from Rihanna’s flop ass Rhinestones Tour. I’d rather watch Beyonce perform Crazy in Love for two hours straight than watch that h** perform new material. The Salvation Army can’t talk s*** about anyone. Every single one of those b****** deserve to be punched in the face with a microphone.
Why is this poor thing coming for Cher??? LOL @lovebird you just need to give it up. You stan for the official lame and basic group of artist: Rihanna, Katy Perry, Britney and Justin Beiber. It can´t get any worse than that. How can you try it with real legends????? LOL
beyonce best dancer? OMG ! HAHAHA JENNY FROM THE BLOCK AND JANET ARE THE BEST DANCERS!!
They told no lies
Oops! Lmaoo
Rihanna is a b****, a bully, and not very talented. She cant dance even if you lit the stage on fire, she bullies people online, and she is just trashy. You cant even compare someone like her to Beyonce, because its like comparing a turd to a Diamond……….no point. Rihanna has one of the most mean spirited, pathetic personalities in music. Its clear she is insecure, unhappy, and trashy. You can put lipstick on a p**………………
F*** Rihanna #industrypussy
Rihanna’s power will naver be under, She’s good in what she deas, To be compede to one of the best singer’s like Bey always, And still be as productive, Give her a brake.
She 25 and she has the power of a 50year legand.