Rihanna thinks she's everybody.

babyjubilation said:

Rihanna thinks she's everybody.

Ain't that the truth ruth!

You kidding? Rihanna has more talent in her left toe than Sheila does in her whole body!

Sheila can't drum to save her life!

This is a joke.

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Red hair like Janet Jackson with a curl like Sheila, Darlin Nikki like the purple one, almost like mike on fiyah!

Just sang that to the tune of Slow Jamz

To be fair, she has been doing that for at least 18 months on tour now. It's not like it's new news.

smoothcriminal12 said:

You kidding? Rihanna has more talent in her left toe than Sheila does in her whole body!

Sheila can't drum to save her life!

This is a joke.

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TylerHippie said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

You kidding? Rihanna has more talent in her left toe than Sheila does in her whole body!

Sheila can't drum to save her life!

"oh no u di-int"

Sheila E. is the daughter of well known percussionist Pete Escovedo. Coke Escovedo is her uncle=percussionist. Tito Puente was her God Father=great salsa musician and percussionist.

Sheila E has performed with:

George Duke

Lionel Richie

Marvin Gaye

Herbie Hancock

Diana Ross

(all in her early twenties)

The lady is a legend in her own time.

Best known in this space and time for her work with Prince and Ringo Starr and Phil Collins just to name a few. Space and time does not allow me to inform you further.

While Rihanna was merely show-boating, it would seem logical that someone would at least teach her some sort of rudimentary drumming style and technique so she'd at least look convincing as a timbales performer. On the video she looks like a toddler with her first drum set. "I go boom boom mommy. just kidding, you know what i mean though.

Be real and informed smoothcriminal12, please don't put a great performer like Sheila e down before you know her true history and how much she's contributed to the world of music.

but it's okay ignorance is blessed. again, i forgive u

Free2bFreeda added:

okay i get it now, you were just kidding right?

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I think Rihanna is a good pop singer but this playing the timbales and drums is a cry out from her to convince people she's a musician. It's like she wants to be taken seriously by people that already made up their minds about who she is as a recording artist.

Good God no.

And it continues.

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rihanna is such a wack performer. Its embarrassing. I wouldn't pay a dime, or go for free.

She just can't move, how is she gonna being from the islands and have NO RHYTHM.

so all people from the islands (and not all are necessarily black) are supposed to have rhythm?

Damn what does Sheila E think? That was um.

TylerHippie said:

free2bfreeda said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

You kidding? Rihanna has more talent in her left toe than Sheila does in her whole body!

Sheila can't drum to save her life!

"oh no u di-int"

Sheila E. is the daughter of well known percussionist Pete Escovedo. Coke Escovedo is her uncle=percussionist. Tito Puente was her God Father=great salsa musician and percussionist.

Sheila E has performed with:

George Duke

Lionel Richie

Marvin Gaye

Herbie Hancock

Diana Ross

(all in her early twenties)

The lady is a legend in her own time.

Best known in this space and time for her work with Prince and Ringo Starr and Phil Collins just to name a few. Space and time does not allow me to inform you further.

While Rihanna was merely show-boating, it would seem logical that someone would at least teach her some sort of rudimentary drumming style and technique so she'd at least look convincing as a timbales performer. On the video she looks like a toddler with her first drum set. "I go boom boom mommy. just kidding, you know what i mean though.

Be real and informed smoothcriminal12, please don't put a great performer like Sheila e down before you know her true history and how much she's contributed to the world of music.

but it's okay ignorance is blessed. again, i forgive u

Free2bFreeda added:

okay i get it now, you were just kidding right?

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Yes. But it was fun to read that long-ass paragraph knowing that it was a joke the whole time.

I like Rihanna as a pop star...she does that part well.....

She is a beautiful girl and no she has NO Rythm to speak of, besides winding a bit...

with that said as sad as this was to watch....and it was SAAAAAAAAD.....a part of me gets great gratitude to see all of these younger performers biting off of my baby Prince. It use to be that everyone bit off of MJ to no end and 99% of the time is was a complete FAIL!

I would LOVE to be that fly on the wall when Sheila and Prince viewed this little diddy.....I bet their faces were priceless.

Are we forgetting just a couple of months ago Prince covered rude boy?

Why do people get so up and arms about artists covering each other?

The nonsense people call music these days.

RKJCNE said:

Are we forgetting just a couple of months ago Prince covered rude boy?

Why do people get so up and arms about artists covering each other?

Still over that one.

BlaqueKnight said:

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smoothcriminal12 said:

Free2bFreeda added:

okay i get it now, you were just kidding right?

Yes. But it was fun to read that long-ass paragraph knowing that it was a joke the whole time.

wow - that was pathetic! She missed the cymbals and drum a number of times and she is just banging on it and hardly playing it!

the sad part is she probably thinks she is good, and rolling stone will print an article about how she is expanding her range of talents...

I don't know which is more baffling, the fact that people actually pay money to see this chick "perform" or the fact that she thought she could pull of faking like a drummer....Perhaps she is the embodiment of what fame in our era means----basically you are famous for being made famous not necessarily for having any disernable talent. Also, is it me or does it seem like Rihanna always looks like she's just standing around on stage and doing random stuff. I don't make it a point to watch many videos of her in concert (even my dogs whines when he hears Rihanna, seriously! LOL!) but it seems like she has this vibe like it's always her first time on stage...what a joke

I just can't believe how big her head is. It's like a Wheaties box. An empty Wheaties box.

SeventeenDayze said:

I don't know which is more baffling, the fact that people actually pay money to see this chick "perform" or the fact that she thought she could pull of faking like a drummer....Perhaps she is the embodiment of what fame in our era means----basically you are famous for being made famous not necessarily for having any disernable talent. Also, is it me or does it seem like Rihanna always looks like she's just standing around on stage and doing random stuff. I don't make it a point to watch many videos of her in concert (even my dogs whines when he hears Rihanna, seriously! LOL!) but it seems like she has this vibe like it's always her first time on stage...what a joke

I saw her in concert on Friday and said the SAME thing to my friends. I used to dance and one of the things I've noticed in her "performances" is that she appears to be "marking" her choreo and never dances full out. Granted, the bitch can't dance but still. Plus, she just walks around and poses on stage. And dont EVEN get me started on her sitting in the middle of the stage with her legs gapped open while wearing a bathing suit or panties or whatever that bullshit was. That shit was some hot mess for real.

Say what you want about Bey but she don't do shit half-time when on stage. She brings it full out from a performance standpoint.

She's nothing but a postmodernist buffon. And she knows it. That's why I dig her. She knows what she is. I have a soft spot for this kind of manipulative, cynical pop-stars. This drum solo was meant to be jokey and flashy (in other words, harmless bullshit).

This lady may be frivolous, but she ain't stupid...

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