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Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~
I agree with you austin. I'm really shocked. I see why she's releasing so much stuff and being sponsored by name brand companies. Girl, needs the money. From personal experiences, I can tell you that "A Girl Like Me" and "Good Girl Gone Bad" were both ****** albums. Seriously, they are. Please don't waste your money on her albums. Rihanna is an single artist. I wish I had know that sooner. I can see why her albums sale bad in the first week. They wait until like a month or two to release her albums after her singles began to lose hype. Plus Rihanna doesn't really promote her albums properly....just her singles. DDD: I thought the whole idea of them releasing Reloaded was STUPID. They might as wll had made a whole album. Americans aren't literally fond of buying extended versions of albums unless they hadn't brought the album.
Rihanna really did get sucker..really hard. The singles that were released after Unfaithful and SOS weren't remotely as big as the those two singles. The only MAJOR hit GGGB had was "Umbrella" (..and Hate that I Luv You I think). By her releasing reloaded, I think many people saw it as a waste of money to buy her album again, so they prolly just purchased the "newer" songs off Itunes. =/
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While I'm not surprised with this news and would agree Rihanna is percieved as a single artist, it's definitly not because Good Girl Gone Bad was, well, bad. It's more because of her infamously bad first two albums, which were absolutely atrocious, and I say this as a huge fan. Sure, music is subjective, and I don't mean to sound like I'm attacking you, but calling GGGB anything less than an extremely solid pop album is ridiculous to me. Seriously, you can't deny it has virtually no filler (except maybe Say It), and has had the best string of internationally successful singles of any female pop album this decade. If anything, most of her GGGB singles were much bigger than both SOS and especially Unfaitful. Umbrella and Dont' Stop The Music were both mega hits internationally, and Disturbia and Take A Bow have already performed incredibly well in the U.S. Next to Shut Up and Drive, Hate That I Love You was probably her least successful GGGB single, by the way.