1. Rihanna
In my eyes, Rihanna represents everything that is wrong in todays music industry. She has manufactured meaningless songs written for her by teams of writers, she desperately grabs for publicity with non-music related stories, she sexualises the hell out of everything she does in order to sell her music, and most importantly, she is not a good singer. I make absolutely no effort to listen to her songs or hear about her personal life, yet I find myself familiar with a lot of her music, and am usually semi-up to date about her relationship status with Chris Brown, due to the medias endless bombarding streaming of her music and gossip surrounding her. To me, she proves that if you throw enough money into marketing anybody and make them dress like a stripper, even someone with a nasally singing tone, then they can be commercially successful.
Redeeming Feature: I guess being thrust into the spotlight at the young age of 16 is going to take its toll on most people in later years. Perhaps this meant she was never fully able to grow up, which would explain why she immaturely posts pictures of herself taking drugs on the internet. I knew people who did that kind of thing when they were 15. Its not big, and its not cool. Its actually incredibly lame.
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