The answer would be no. Just listen to Ri Ri sing. Maybe she can dance, but Beyonce's got 10+ in a business that Rihanna's barely got 5 in. Crazy outfits and new hairstyles will only get you so far (Lady Gaga anyone?).

Dethroned from what, exactly?

Rihanna has better songs than Beyonce. Perhaps that's why she's doing better.

But no doubt her label will release song after song to radio untill they have a hit.

allsmutaside said:

Spinlight said:

You can't be serious. She sounds ungodly in concert.

But she dance like an angel.

INCREDIBLE dancer!!!!!! Just look at her moonwalk!!!!!

Makes Michael look like an amateur.

BlaqueKnight said:

allsmutaside said:

But she dance like an angel.

INCREDIBLE dancer!!!!!! Just look at her moonwalk!!!!!

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Makes Michael look like an amateur.

Beyonce's management "bought" her throne...I dunno, I find her irritating, unoriginal and lacking anything that really adds anything really mind boggling to the table. She screams, throws her weave around and hasn't written any type of meaningful songs. I have no idea. Rihanna, don't even get me started. All style, no substance. I just wish singers who actually played instruments were dominating R&B music right now. I think black music right now is really in the gutter but I hope it gets better soon.

Rihanna sure has skanked up her outfits over the years.

HotGritz said:

Rihanna sure has skanked up her outfits over the years.

Perhaps that's the reason for her rise in popularity.

just1lousydime said:

HotGritz said:

Rihanna sure has skanked up her outfits over the years.

Perhaps that's the reason for her rise in popularity.

most likely.

I think of Rihanna as a celebrity and Beyonce as a singer. Even though I don't care for Beyonce's music, that really does seem to be her passion and her talent.

I think Rihanna could have modeled/acted/celebutanted even without the music. The music just put her on.

All that to say, I don't think comparisons between the two make much sense.

PS. And since Beyonce is partnering with the White House and such...I think her position is quite a different.

I'm sorry did Rihanna knock Beyonce off of a toilet at some uber hot spot? That's the only dethroning two those will ever have to worry about!

Rihanna's music is "loud" and "fun" and that's what this current shallow music scene is after...mindless fun and erratic energy. That's the only thing she has over Beyonce. Unlike Rihanna, Katy, Britney, Ke$ha and Gaga...Beyonce has a harder time tempering her style to what the hipster/emo club kid prefers to hear. "Run the World (Girls)" was such a neurotic attempt on her part to try and capture that scene and make a splash that it became disengenious. So busy, so elaborate and so overproduced that it came out a mess.

I predicted that Beyonce would have the hardest time in 2011, because she's got more conflicting expectations than her peers. The rest of them (Rihanna included) are just pop, and that's what is in vogue right now, so they can come out with some ditzy song that sounds like the bastard child of Haddaway and Captain Hollywood Project, and it'll be mindlessly accepted. Beyonce has to try and walk the line between balancing both of what mainstream pop and her core R&B audience wants to hear. If she goes all the way pop, black people will turn on her and won't easily accept her back later on. If she stays R&B, top 40 radio will ignore her like Keri Hilson and Keyshia Cole.

I don't envy her this year.

That being said, when that scene finally dies out, Rihanna is done. She wasn't created for the long haul; her whole purpose was to make money off the here and now, and when she goes out of style it won't be pretty. Beyonce will become like Donna Summer. She'll have a few more hits early in this decade. Hit a long dry spell, then maybe have a surprise hit at the end of the decade. From there, it'll be about her legacy of hits and playing to her dedicated fanbase.

chamber said:

Rihanna's music is "loud" and "fun" and that's what this current shallow music scene is after...mindless fun and erratic energy. That's the only thing she has over Beyonce. Unlike Rihanna, Katy, Britney, Ke$ha and Gaga...Beyonce has a harder time tempering her style to what the hipster/emo club kid prefers to hear. "Run the World (Girls)" was such a neurotic attempt on her part to try and capture that scene and make a splash that it became disengenious. So busy, so elaborate and so overproduced that it came out a mess.

I predicted that Beyonce would have the hardest time in 2011, because she's got more conflicting expectations than her peers. The rest of them (Rihanna included) are just pop, and that's what is in vogue right now, so they can come out with some ditzy song that sounds like the bastard child of Haddaway and Captain Hollywood Project, and it'll be mindlessly accepted. Beyonce has to try and walk the line between balancing both of what mainstream pop and her core R&B audience wants to hear. If she goes all the way pop, black people will turn on her and won't easily accept her back later on. If she stays R&B, top 40 radio will ignore her like Keri Hilson and Keyshia Cole.

I don't envy her this year.

That being said, when that scene finally dies out, Rihanna is done. She wasn't created for the long haul; her whole purpose was to make money off the here and now, and when she goes out of style it won't be pretty. Beyonce will become like Donna Summer. She'll have a few more hits early in this decade. Hit a long dry spell, then maybe have a surprise hit at the end of the decade. From there, it'll be about her legacy of hits and playing to her dedicated fanbase.

I could see all of this happening.

Curtwill1975 said:

chamber said:

Rihanna's music is "loud" and "fun" and that's what this current shallow music scene is after...mindless fun and erratic energy. That's the only thing she has over Beyonce. Unlike Rihanna, Katy, Britney, Ke$ha and Gaga...Beyonce has a harder time tempering her style to what the hipster/emo club kid prefers to hear. "Run the World (Girls)" was such a neurotic attempt on her part to try and capture that scene and make a splash that it became disengenious. So busy, so elaborate and so overproduced that it came out a mess.

I predicted that Beyonce would have the hardest time in 2011, because she's got more conflicting expectations than her peers. The rest of them (Rihanna included) are just pop, and that's what is in vogue right now, so they can come out with some ditzy song that sounds like the bastard child of Haddaway and Captain Hollywood Project, and it'll be mindlessly accepted. Beyonce has to try and walk the line between balancing both of what mainstream pop and her core R&B audience wants to hear. If she goes all the way pop, black people will turn on her and won't easily accept her back later on. If she stays R&B, top 40 radio will ignore her like Keri Hilson and Keyshia Cole.

I don't envy her this year.

That being said, when that scene finally dies out, Rihanna is done. She wasn't created for the long haul; her whole purpose was to make money off the here and now, and when she goes out of style it won't be pretty. Beyonce will become like Donna Summer. She'll have a few more hits early in this decade. Hit a long dry spell, then maybe have a surprise hit at the end of the decade. From there, it'll be about her legacy of hits and playing to her dedicated fanbase.

I could see all of this happening.

Don't worry about Beyonce. Baphomet has her back!