* Yawn *

This was marketing 101.

And you don’t make music your way, and list 50+ album contributors in your CD booklet.

I like the new style much better. So good for her.

Shut up!!!..she really think she somebody.

Ummm, Rhianna needs to watch her mouth. How does she know those other females were trying to be like others? Now, when somebody say she is trying to be like Beyonce she get offended…So why would she say that about others. She was blending in with the rest too. Who is Mariah trying to be like? She has been around, doing the same thing, way longer than any of those mentioned. She act like she was the first to cut her hair off. Please. Nothing about her style is original. She wears cute stuff(due to her stylist) – but far from original.

Rhianna, you can fool some people but not everybody is buying into your story of control. She is nothing more than a puppet, and is being told what to do and who to be.

Why is there a picture of a HOOKER?

…o ma bad

RHIANNA IS KILLING THE FASHION SCENE, THERE’S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT, AND I THINK SHE MEANT THAT SHE DIDN’T BUDGE AT THE PRESSURE, I AM GLAD SHE DIDN’T THAT WHY I LOVE ME SOME KEYSHIA AND FANTASIA AND MARY AND ALL THE REAL FOLKS DOING OUT THEIR THEY ALL HAVE MY RESPECT!

Good for her that she didn’t go for the Beyonce clone look! That look is getting so played and tired. Other women in the industry need to take note. Be original or at least switch it up!

@soulwoman..no, her style is not original but it sure is refreshing. I don’t think they are all trying to be like each other but they all have that same long blond/brown weave thing going and it gets really old. Maybe if they changed it up some (just the hair), they would stand out more and maybe be recognized a tad bit more (excluding Mariah, you were right about her, she’s been around for a while so she has to copy/clone no one)

Again, there is nothing original about Rhianna’s look. She is no way in the same class as Fantasia, Keyshia or Mary. They are real, yes. Rhianna is on strings. She is being told what to do and say. Take away her stylist, producers and writers and that’s she how “real” she is. She would be lost. She was not the first, second, or third chick in the industry to rock short hair. Fantasia’s hair was short, Kelis hair was short, Tichina Arnold, Eva, Nia long…I can go on and on of those that had short hair in the last 5 yrs.

Oh, and I loves me some Ri Ri! She’s killing it everytime I see her.

stevie wonder can see that her team came up with that look…but whatever helps u sleep at nite…

LOL, is it just me or does she remind anyone of Big Bird from Sesame Street in this picture.

Awww…look at Rhirhi trying to make us think she came up with all this. Im sorry but this whole image was made for her. DefJam made her cut her hair because she was getting comparerd way to much with Beyonce so they needed something different. This is just one of these things Def Jam told her to say.

No1 in the industry does what they want not even the biggest artist. She wasn’t making music her own way Def Jam payed for them producers and big too. As far as her style goes, she has a stylist and stylist are paid to make her look good, she ain’t doing nothing on her own.

Her new album is due this year and i’m kind of sure a new image is going to come along with it.

Sorry to all the Rihanna stans i misht of offended just saying what i think.

@soulwoman May 23, 2008 – 3:30 pm

I totally agree but we have to admit that Rihanna stands out from the other short haired women that you named. I think the other girls are way more talented but you know now a days talent doesn’t mean too much. So based on looks and fashion, she’s killing it. But the other ladies are doing their thing as well. But you know, if looking good is your only real talent, then that’s what they are going to focus on. I do get your point though.

The only one that is struggling in music is Christina Milan. The rest have their own fanbase so they are already being recognized. Beyonce doesn’t need to be recognized anymore than she already is, Mariah is established, and Ciara is successful in her own right. Rhianna mentioned Ciara – Ciara dyed her hair black before when she was still blonde. So I guess she (Rhianna) was trying to look like her. I’ve heard comments about Rhianna biting Kelis, FeFe Dobson (sp?) and other artists style. Why didn’t she address that instead of throwing darts at other artists?

I like Rhianna’s style, too, but she is giving herself WAY too much credit.

hahaha @ da 1st comment..but yea um she made a point every1 is sooo cliche in hollyweird,being different rox!!!

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@soulwoman May 23, 2008 – 3:30 pm

I totally agree but we have to admit that Rihanna stands out from the other short haired women that you named. I think the other girls are way more talented but you know now a days talent doesn’t mean too much. So based on looks and fashion, she’s killing it. But the other ladies are doing their thing as well. But you know, if looking good is your only real talent, then that’s what they are going to focus on. I do get your point though.

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Yeah, I get it. She is the most marketable out of the “short hair” bunch, lol.

O my with the haters…. she’s hott, I totally got a similar hair cut and rocking it…

she better shut up and drive

Nobody ever cuts their hair…they just take their weave out.

Still, it’s nice to see someone with short hair for a change.

Her bob was tracked to death.

De Jam just gave her Fefe Dobson’s haircut and sound, created a faux romance ala Ciara and Bow Wow, found her a hot stylist like Kelis and sold their new mannequin as a new package. She’s a marketing puppet and unfortunately she believes her own hype.

half of the chicks she named can sing and dance her ass back to the islands

Now I wonder who told her too say that? The Baddest Copying Chick in the Game needs to slow her role. Maybe she should be like them it might make her sound better. Rihanna has really gotten the big head with this name dropping.

Originality is one thing, but can she wear other things than black sex wear? But I like the patent leather for my “personal” collection.

She needs to stop lying lol

As much as I think her haircut is cute and suits her, she knows DAMN WELL she didn’t come up with it -.-

Fantastia …class..okay.Iam glad Rihanna isn’t wearing the long, flowing honey colored weave…it’s so played out

Ok, so I am proud of Rhianna. She is absolutely gorgeous and she sure is making a hit with everybody when it comes to her looks and her style. She should be confident enough to brag about being her own person…it’s not like she’s saying she’s better than the other young women in the industry. She’s just trying to be her own person and be proud. Leave the young girl alone b/c she is blowin up right now in the media…which she should be, especially being Chris Brown’s girl. Leave her alone

@ Biracial Bombeshell,

Rihanna is not her own person, she copied Bey, Kelis, and personally I think Aaliyah too. She never was her own person and now all of a sudden she is her own person because she chopped of the hair, halle even did it first!

good decision! Her haircut suits her

I take that back..her singing IS original..only few artists could sound like they are singing in a tin can.

She’s not getting at them people!!! She’s just saying she didnt want to be more like the popular artist which alot of females are forced to do. Everybody isnt going to be the best at singing or dancing but some people are going to be unique and that whats shes become. I respect her individuality. Lemme tell yall a story peep: Motown wanted to stifle Stevie Wonder’s creativity in the beginning of his career. Berry Gordy told him that he needed the Motown writers and producers to make him a sure star dispite him proving himself with a couple of songs already (he wrote Tears of A Clown & worte and produced his own Signed, Sealed, Delivered) . But anybody else would conform because hey, Motown had the best writers/ producers in that day in time and NO ONE had full control of their artistry at that time. They told their artist how to dress, walk, talk, & perform. So Stevie lets his deal run out and gives them an album that he did on his own as his last that was a masterpiece (“Where I’m Coming From”).So for two years he recorded 2 albums that he didnt release and used as leverage to negotiate with Motown who eventually resigned him, and in turn let him have FULL creative control. I AM NOT comparing Stevie to Rihanna!! HELL NAW! The point is this, every artist no matter who that has been signed was signed for a reason and she has every right not to have that common look and make common commercial songs. Look at Stevie! How can you tell him he cant write his own sh*t???Prince wasnt the best singer or dancer but he was a musician and he wrote the best songs and performed them like no other. Good for Rihanna. People didnt hate on T-Boz or Janet for their lack of vocal ability; or in turn, hate on Whitney & Mariah for their non- dancing skills. Anyone who is willing to be themselves and not be conformed or pimped by the system should be applauded.

go rihanna do your thing. be you. that way no one one will say you look like beyonce and want to steal her ugly man.

west indian massive all de way!!!!

I found Rhianna more interesting and worthy of discussion when she was rumored to be dating Shia LeBouf, the star of Transformers. Now, that the rumor has been defunct, and Rhianna is dating Chris, I don’t find her interesting anymore. Frankly, I feel that dating Cris is a bad career move, I mean he’s deep into the urban market. Sorry, but Rhianna should have pulled a Diana Ross, and crossover.

I don’t have nothing bad to say about her. I saw her at MGG on the Glow in the Dark tour and she exceeded my expectations. Long hair via extentions/wigs are too common now…if I didn’t know I definitely found out today when two of my 8th grade students had some new long, locks today…LOL

Rhianna is full of sh**! She ain’t been around long enough to be making any demands. If she wants to demand something, it should be that Def Jam gets her some better music. But even that won’t help the fact that she can’t sing.

OH PLEASE! HER STYLE IS STRAIGHT FROM FEFE DOBSON! SHE NEED TO QUIT FRONTIN…ITS SO IROnIC TOO CUZ FEFE WAS SIGNED TO DEFJAm AND tHEY WANTED hER TO b THIS COOKIE CuTTER ARTISt And SHe REFUSES AND uLTiMATELy GOT DRoppEd…FEFE HAD TRUE ORIGINAliTY…THEY jUST JACKED hER FROm HER StyLE ANd gAvE IT TO RHiAnna……SHE WAS a CLuELESs ISland GIRL…SHE kNEW nUTHin ABoUT EDGE and RoCK…SO SHE NEEds TO KNOCk IT oFF…TALkiNG WRECklEsslY and OUT OF POCKEt

And ANOTHER THinG, SHE STyLE ANd hAIR THInG CUz OBVIouSLY THAts THE only THinG THAt MAkess HER A TAD BIt InTErestIN..WHtEv

i understand her wanting to be different, but she needs to get into fashion and not singing. she doesnt even write her own hits!

rihanna would be better off remembered by her style, not her bad singing. and why is she somewhat talking bad about mariah and bey, they have talent!!

hold up, why dont we just take jay-z, ne-yo, and everybody else that built up rihanna and see if she can still stand on her own.

can she sing? no.

can she dance? no.

can she model? yeah, so why not bust out her own clothing line?

Ok, there is going to be some fallout to this statement. The other girls are going to be heated.

CAT FIGHT!!!

haha..step up her sound?? vocally she’s not the best..and she’s far from the worst…besides that..she has it on lock right now….britney had to move over..id love to see keri hilson come up though

OMG, she looks so hot. It seems that girl is dating online now. I saw her profile on dating site “W e a l t h y lo v I n g . c o m” last week. It is said she is dating young billionaire on that site.

SHE HAS COPIED HER ENTIRE STYLE OFF OF KELIS!!! go check out the “bossy” video, kelis cuts off her curly hair and rocks out in her short hair! rihanna is such a biter and i am tired of her no-singin ass

she should be tired of her own broken record remarks. every interview or comment she goes on record as saying she cut her own hair, she started singing the kind of music she wanted to sing .. blah blah. she has been saying the same damn thing since the release of good girl gone bad. its so played out and so untrue. as many others have stated she did definitely swagger jack FeFe Dobson HARDCORE lol and she mixed in a lil Kelis for the urban effect because she couldnt go to ‘rocker’ otherwise she’d loose the urban crowd. she should feel like a hypocrite even saying these words because reading the credits from her album contradicts every damn thing she’s said and furthermore the label execs made her change her style because she COULDNT compete with all the other long blond haired artists. what a inflated opinion of herself she’s acquired since she got a couple #1′s under her belt

Rihanna is like Beyonce’s special slow child.

^^My bad. I want Kelis to make a statement because RiRi simply jacked her haircut like, a yr or so after “Bossy” came out (Ri cut her hair last yr into that black bob, and “Bossy” isn’t more than 2 yrs old, right? Maybe 2 1/2 or 3).

I’m her big fan, I saw her profile on a celeb dating site “mill ionaireloves. com”, is she single? what’s she looking for there!!

I think almost everyone has missed the point, in regards to her transformation. She may have left the clone pack behind for the time being, but she didn’t do anything original, all she did was to steal the look of the Metal/BDSM community. It is fake and she is a huge joke because of it. The music does not match look. It’s as simple as that. Anybody who views this new transformation as something authetic, then sorry to burst your bubbles but you’ll have been fooled.

I agree w/ Lili..

you don’t name names. Rih you cut your hair Who cares. I don’t see the big deal w/ the hair cut. She’s just another singer is the “it” girl for now b/c of her looks, not talent. I guess she has to milk it for all it’s worth. But i certainly won’t be buying it..

haters riri is fly. bey has worn a wig for years i would like to see her with short hair, haha her fat face will show.. dont hate on ri she is killing it now… saw what you what she is making money weave free…. and wig free

All of this is a package including that statement she just released. First of all she is saying this same thing entirely too much. It seems as though she’s trying to justify the transformation. Like if she says it enough times then she will really believe it. That short hair cut is nothing new. Her music and stage presence is nothing new and really not adding much to the music business. She’s flash no substance. It just goes to show how fickle this business is….for some no talents if you just have an edgy look you can make it. Hers is completely falsified. How can she say Mariah, Beyonce and others were trying to be like each other. Is she trying to put herself ahead of theM? Why because she cut her hair? GTFOH. It’s going to take a lot more than a haircut and fake edge to get anywhere near those artists levels. And changing hair length isn’t going to do it, how about changing ur voice box so you can actually do what ur supposed to be in the industry for..SINGING..and not modeling. She’s so full of herself for no reason at all.

Though I rock the light brown with blonde highlites look on the regular, I like that Rihanna stepped outside the box and found her own look. She looks very beautiful.

i think people are just haters bcuz its Rihanna…..if Bee makes a comment like that its ok bcuz everyone thinks she is the queen of the U.S..alot of female singers do look the same….long lace front wigs……….Rihanna is very different and her style is fly..everyone has the own opinions, but honestly the truth is she is very unique…..u can count on 1 hand how many singers actually look different………..its nice to see someone with their natural hair too!

I miss Fe Fe Doson, what happened to her. Her label wrongly dropped her like a bad habit

Okay she did the victoria beckham!!!!!! Why she trying to take credit like she was fresh wit it. IT HAD BEEN DONE LONG BEFORE YOU JUMPED ON THE BANDWAGON. Now shes got the Halle Berry.

She probably cut it when jigga told her to get off his dick. Cuz she was mad!!!!! and she hated B so much.!!!!

Why all the nasty comments, she’s doing her thing. She’s not saying she created the look, she’s saying thats who she is. And for the person who compared her to fantasia….yuck. Thats an insult and ew. Rihanna clearly looks much better and has much more class. So long to the haters, better yourself instead of downing others. When you got it, you don’t have to down anybody, you just rock it!!

hey, i agree. it took guts to dare to be different and stop all that curly blond weave thing. i am glad someone did it. cause that look is so played, even the females she named look played out rockin it. Rhianna is a fresh face, a fresh style that is needed. The other women she named are just old. She may believe that she made that decision, but believe me, a lot of people tried to make that decision and weren’t allowed. so she is lucky that she has enough support to evolve and be different. Older people like blond flowy curls, young women like the more fresh hip look. its a fact.

Beyonce, Christina Milian, Ciara, Mariah>>>>>Rihanna.

Real talk. Beyonce and Christina look way better than her. Beyonce and Mariah got more talent than her. Ciara will dance her all the way back to Barbados.

Rihanna just wish she was half as good as those women. They all kill her on looks and talent.

Rihanna a fresher look? GTFOH Mostly white people like her cause she appeals to them more. When have you ever heard a rihanna song or seen a rihanna video on BET or black radio stations? Nobody is checking for her no talent ass in the black community.

Beyonce+Christina+Ciara+Mariah= Rihanna who?

@ morgab:

“Rihanna is not her own person, she copied Bey, Kelis, and personally I think Aaliyah too. She never was her own person and now all of a sudden she is her own person because she chopped of the hair, halle even did it first!”

I don’t know where the hell you’re coming from with this! How did she copy Bey? I’m pretty sure she’s nothing like her, and she doesn’t sound like her either. And just b/c she cut her hair she’s like Kelis? LOL, Rhi’s hair looks sooo much more hip than hers. And Halle cut her hair 1st? Halle cuts her hair for anyone who asks her to depending on what her next role is…she has pretty much no control over how she does her hair. So, Rhianna IS her own person, and I think she’s perfect for who she is and who she’s portraying to the rest of us. She’s hot and that’s the truth! Big ups to Rhianna for doing her thang!!!!!!!!!1

@ Q:

Rihanna a fresher look? GTFOH Mostly white people like her cause she appeals to them more. When have you ever heard a rihanna song or seen a rihanna video on BET or black radio stations? Nobody is checking for her no talent ass in the black community.

Are you f-ing serious? Honestly, right now, Rhianna is the MOST played out artists on black radio stations!!! That’s why I can’t even stand listening to the radio. Everytime I decide to take a cd out and try the radio it’s either “Take a Bow” or “…Please don’t stop the music” So…you want to dog Rhianna and say she appeals to more “white people” She is so hot right now that she can appeal to BOTH white and black people…not a lot of artists who can please all types of fans. Nice try though. You thought you were on to something

If her story is true, then she is smart. There is no reason to belittle and criticize her if she thinks she is being original. It is true that since Beyonce, girls have been packaged or repackaged as her clone. It’s not true that they have to do what the label tells them to all of the time. There are stories of artists who have made it big or have crumbled only when they refused to do with the label told them.

@ Q and Biracial Bombshell

If Rhianna appeals to white people, then good for her. It doesn’t make her music any less valid. If anything, artists who have cross over appeal survive. A lot of great black artists were crossover hits: Prince, Jimmy Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Beyonce, Destiny’ Child… and so on. It’s good business sense and the record business is the business of selling. Not trying to be as “black” as possible, whatever that means.

Q, if you were really into being black or whatever you would be glad that a black girl made it and is popular. Although she might be biracial, she will ALWAYS be considered black.

Y’all are dogging her like the statement about everybody wearing the same exact weave wasn’t true! She should’ve kept names to herself because we ALL know the artists she’s talking about but come on…that is REAL TALK! Everybody got the same weave!

Rihalien dont have an original bone in her body. She dont have talent either. She just went from a Beyonce clone to a Kelis/Fefe Dobson clone. Either way she is not the first to do anything. Like others have said she is just a puppet who does what her label tells her to do.

Newsflash to Rihalien: All the chicks you named look better and sing better than your no talent ass. Bish get a clue.

She is starting to look more uglyer each time I see her. She shouldn’t have cut her hair. Were is the Rihanna from ‘If It’s Lovin’ That You Want’?????

She be Hot, like my foul breath in the morning!

This is what everyone says that has a hit formula album the first time around……Rhianna who you foolin?

Where is Kelis and Fefe Dobson now? Yeah, dropped from their record label. I do believe that Kelis was being edgy for cutting her hair. However, short hair was in style in the 90s, but the clones coming out in 2000 are all about the weave. Do you really care whose idea it was? Stop being so pretentious and get over yourselves. This is an industry that is very hard to survive in. Kudos to her for making it.

Also, I rarely hear her music on urban radio either. But, this is the reason she is still surviving in this game because of cross over appeal. And now EVERYONE is trying to get into pop music.

Well I do like her new image, it is edgy,vogue and bold. Let’s be honest, most Black female entertainers do adhere to the “long,blondish hair” mold. However she is only copying Fefe Dobson. She even admitted it. It is so sad that Fefe is not getting recognition for her creativity.Yeah and I agree (although I kina like Ree ree) she is not independent, no one is in show business.

I still want to treat her as a sun shine girl like before although there are so many rumour about her on ~(((~I n t i m a t e m i n g l e. c o m ~____))))~

I love rihanna’s new look. She has a great sense of style.

that b*tch betta keep ciara’s name out her mouth.

first she was tomboy like ciara

then she became beyonce

now she’s fefe dobson/kelis w/ that fake rebel bull

and she want to call out other people. take yo big fohead azz back to the carribean you ho

Rihanna is doing her thang! Good for her! Alot of people believe you have to look a certain way to make it in this business i.e. long, straight, blonde, european hair/weave/wig. She showed everybody that someone can make it with short, REAL, black hair.

When Lauryn Hill was rocking locks ain’t nobody accuse her of stealing the Jamaican Rastafarian hair style(God knows that they were the originators). Why? Because Lauryn made the look work for her. The locks suited her face, her clothes were fashionable and her songs were on point.

If Kelis was on point with her fashion and had introduce her short, black hairstyle when she sang Milkshake, she would have been hailed has a trendsetter but Kelis was sporting pink short hair at one point(we can accuse her of stealing Pink’s pink punk rock look from back in the day), bleached blonde hair at another (definitely stole Marilyn Monroe’s look), black hair at yet another and never stuck to a particular color or length.

Rihanna, on the other hand, kept the black hair and just kept cutting it as Umbrella got more popular.

My point? Everybody steals looks but you have to make the look work for you and set yourself apart from the pack. Halle Berry and Lauryn Hill did it. Now Rihanna is doing it. From one bajan queen to another: You go girl!

RiRi’s style is dope. The haters can’t deny it. I don’ like her concert costumes but her candid pics with her show how fly she always is. I like her accessories, nail polish, and she has really good taste in shoes. I liked the purple and black boots she wore and the black heels she wore to CB’s b-day party.

I also liked the Gucci dress she wore to Madonna’s benefit event for Africa and gray dress she wore to the NRJ awards. Check her style out online…. this chic gives me a lot of ideas and she really needs her own clothing line.

like someone else said .. her bubble gum pop sound doesnt match the s&m look shes been parading around in. ill just be glad when her 30 min are over

@ soulwoman I agree with u 100%

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