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This egg has 5 Million IG followers, and McDonalds is the #1 hamburger in the world.
The masses aren't always the optimal filter for quality
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Official Rihanna Halftime Show Thread (1 Viewer)
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Let's pump the brakes a little...
This egg has 5 Million IG followers, and McDonalds is the #1 hamburger in the world.
The masses aren't always the optimal filter for quality
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I don't think anyone was talking about quality, just the (supposed) numbers.
Let's pump the brakes a little...
This egg has 5 Million IG followers, and McDonalds is the #1 hamburger in the world.
The masses aren't always the optimal filter for quality
BassNBrew
Footballguy
If a McDonald's hamburger had material to lip sync and could shake it's buns, it would be the halftime act. My point was to the people that hadn't heard her music that she's insanely popular.
Let's pump the brakes a little...
This egg has 5 Million IG followers, and McDonalds is the #1 hamburger in the world.
The masses aren't always the optimal filter for quality
If a McDonald's hamburger had material to lip sync and could shake it's buns, it would be the halftime act. My point was to the people that hadn't heard her music that she's insanely popular.
Let's pump the brakes a little...
This egg has 5 Million IG followers, and McDonalds is the #1 hamburger in the world.
The masses aren't always the optimal filter for quality
250MM albums sold, 2nd biggest selling female artist in history, 14 #1 hits which is more than Michael Jackson, she’s huge.
Although personally I hate the 14 #1 hits stat. It was much easier to get a #1 in the era of big corporate radio that she dominated. And some of her #1’s she’s singing a chorus of like 10 words tops for somebody else.
In the running for best SB song hook of all time. Along with Bad Romance. To be joined by Delicate once Taylor finishes her tour. Lol.
rockaction
Footballguy
It's really just an interpolaton of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. It repeats the melody line.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yep, clear to hear when laid over each other - two great songs still. I prefer the Lauper take though.
Harry Frogfish
Footballguy
I have yet to hear, had no interest, but nice catch. Now I want to check it out. This bugs me to no end, when an artist basically rips off or copies a hook or melody, whatever you want to call it, from another artist. I know it happens more than most realize but when it's blatant is when it really gets me. "Interpolation" seems like an awfully nice way of saying it, but I'll have to listen.
BTW, anyone that hasn't seen her performance on Letterman -- I forget which song -- it's as sexy as it gets. YouTube it. It's one of those where even Dave was like, whoa. And he wasn't a host that overdid his adulation, at all.
Never caught that one before. S.O.S. is just a super obvious sample of Tainted Love with new lyrics over it.
rockaction
Footballguy
Nice post, man. Thanks for the positivity. "Interpolation" is the nice or technical way (I've noticed "interpolation" becoming the technical saying in copyright law and/or sampling websites) of saying ripped off or borrowed. I think Cyndi Lauper probably got paid. If not, she has suing as recourse, which artists loathe to do but if a song gets that big and they wrote it, then...
I'll have to check out the performance on Letterman. Sounds nice.
rockaction
Footballguy
Yeah, interesting. I prefer RIhanna's, but originals should get their due. I like that house four on the floor thing, though, so I'm a little bit in the tank for the modern Moroder click.
Harry Frogfish
Footballguy
Found it, the David Letterman Show performance. I know next to nothing about her but this is still ingrained.....
Listen to Dave's comments at the end, he's like a school boy out there, funny ****.
And if that's not a smoke show, I don't know what is.
Also, I miss Letterman.
Listen to Dave's comments at the end, he's like a school boy out there, funny ****.
And if that's not a smoke show, I don't know what is.
Also, I miss Letterman.
GordonGekko
Footballguy
Not that complicated to be honest.
Bernard Arnault took some major financial hits during the pandemic. Some laid bare in public, most however were not. Rihanna performed at the Super Bowl because he wanted her to perform at the Super Bowl. That's it.
The open tells before hand were that Asian social media influencers were doing heavy promotions for Fenty brand cosmetics, which is Rihanna's main bread winner outlet. That didn't happen for no reason.
Social media headcounts are vastly inflated. It's informally called "identity shadowing" It's a marketing strategy for constant engagement to create a "cult of personality" Same for Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Black Pink, Beyonce, BTS, etc, etc. Here's the thing that matters, no one on that list I just mentioned gets to move forward with juggernaut level marketing support without being fully controlled.
Just like Tiger Woods or LeBron James, Rihanna goes where she's told, smiles when she's told, promotes what she's told to promote, kiss the butts she's told to kiss and essentially her life is run for her. She's a product now, not a real whole person anymore. Which is pretty tragic if you think about it deep down.
Whether the masses liked Rihanna's performance is irrelevant to Arnault. The degree to which Fenty brand can entrench into foreign markets is the litmus test of success in this endeavor.
I don't think some of you really get it, but all it's going to take is one major data breach that goes viral and 75 percent of the legacy brand name singers and artists you love will probably end up killing themselves. You're a product, not a person. You sell to consumers who are seen like cattle, not human beings.
What is Rihanna's career legacy and if it's enough to avoid doing the Super Bowl to hold onto it isn't the reason why she was told to do the gig.
massraider
Footballguy
For being the most corn-fed-lookin' middle American dude ever, Dave was one hepcat.
