^Agree with both of you even though I
Rihanna's music & live performances to pieces. I'll be honest, really honest, I've been fighting with myself to try & like the single and its been up & down with me, but I really can say it's not going on my regular usual daily music playlist anytime soon. The more I push myself towards it, the more it shoves me back a few feet.
As for promotion and releasing music, I also must agree. They're taking SOOOOO LONG for no real good reason. They're supposed to be the Queens as they love putting it over there, but how can they possibly stay on top if they're not doing anything to grab top spots on polls and awards all the time? One song can only win them so many of those. And while I'm also agreeing on the whole promotion thing with them compared to Namie, the sad thing is that in Japan, it's quite normal for artists to start doing promotions over a month in advance. Even release snippets of new tracks that'll be on the new release. However in Korea, they seem to love telling everyone like only a week or maybe sometimes 2 weeks in advance and only show off random promotional images and rant on & on about how "great" it'll be without so much as a 10sec snippet of the new music to show the public til the full thing actually releases, which annoys me to no end. -_-