The Official Rihanna Thread

[MemorialAddress]

Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~

@Bondy: I had a feeling you were going to say asian artists do that. My statement was meant to be as in america. =/

Michael Jackson made videos for just about every song on Dangerous

[Ayumi27]

Originally Posted by MemorialAddress08

Michael Jackson made videos for just about every song on Dangerous

True, but not each track, but 11 out of 14 I think

[bondingo]

Originally Posted by Ayumi27

True, but not each track, but 11 out of 14 I think

Exactly, and Rihanna didn't do a video for every track on Good Girl Gone Bad, but a large amount of them. That completely destroys Luv's argument. Looking at it in those terms, Rihanna would be copying Michael Jackson, but I don't believe that's the case myself. Promoting an album by turning a high ratio of the tracks into singles and therefore making videos for them is no new strategy that any artist is doing because they stole the idea from another artist. It's a rather devious marketing technique that, in this case, seems to be working rather well.

Oh, and btwz Luv: Blondie's "Eat To The Beat" and 50 Cent's "The Massacre" both had videos for every song. Those both came before B'Day. So what were you arguing again?

[MemorialAddress]

Originally Posted by bondingo

Exactly, and Rihanna didn't do a video for every track on Good Girl Gone Bad, but a large amount of them. That completely destroys Luv's argument. Looking at it in those terms, Rihanna would be copying Michael Jackson, but I don't believe that's the case myself. Promoting an album by turning a high ratio of the tracks into singles and therefore making videos for them is no new strategy that any artist is doing because they stole the idea from another artist. It's a rather cheap marketing technique that, in this case, seems to be working rather well.

Exactly. I mean, artists make music videos for songs on their albums, that's all there is to it. Who cares if multiple artists make videos for all the songs on their CD? That doesn't mean they're copying one another.
That would be like saying the entire music industry copies eachother by making even one music video, since obviously SOMEONE had to have made the first video ever. I hope I made sense here...
Ooops! I agreed with bondingo again!

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by bondingo

Rihanna would be copying Michael Jackson, but I don't believe that's the case myself.

hhhmmm she doesn't copy him, but she definitely samples him It's cool to hear Michael screaming in "Don't Stop The Music" -woo hooo hoo hee heee heee- plus parts of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" playing on it LOL

And a new album? Good!