She was paying for his phone bill and his brothers schooling a housing . Joe was also using his association with her to book roles in films with Emma Stone and other reputable directors. He used her concerts as opportunities to get work. Used her jet to fly in costars
@keutoprakk@theehappymeal@Thebear1995T Girl please 😭😭 EAs have equal privileges as whites everywhere around the world including west.
We don't live in Jim Crow era. It's 2026.
Their accomplishments & impact globally are far more impressive than hers, not sorry to say, bc they did it as a Korean group singing predominantly in Korean. Not even a remotely easy feat.
Popular music is so painfully mediocre right now. A lot of these new young artists (Malcom Todd, Olivia Dean, Sombr, Alex Warren, Benson Boone, etc) just make inoffensive algorithm-friendly tracks with no unique sound, style, or perspective.
rihanna at #1 is always the only right answer. billie does not have more hits than beyoncé. olivia does not have more hits than shakira. nicki should be on the third lane, the south african at the bottom of the list does not even be on this list… overall i think this is not bad
The best thing she did was pull herself out of this hectic music industry and focus on something that really suits her interests.
But yeah she does hold a lot of space in people's music cravings.
“rihanna gets streams bc of nostalgia” falls apart when the artists you’re comparing her to had to release albums to get attention and still flopped. she has been musically absent for years and nobody in her lane has come close to matching the level of demand she still generates.