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  • May
    23
    2012

    Rihanna Skips Through ‘American Idol’ Performance

    Written by Trent | Filed under Rihanna
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    Rihanna performs on 'American Idol'.

    After Fantasia performed on the ‘American Idol’ finale and showed off her raw vocals, Rihanna hit the stage flaunt her new hairstyle. That’s right folks, the master of gimmicks has yet another style, which she proudly flicked as she skipped the high notes of her song ‘Where Have You Been’.

    Dropping the key of ‘Where Have You Been’ and conveniently avoiding the high notes, Rihanna leisurely pranced in one spot while flexing her stiff dance moves. Hey, everybody isn’t going to sing like Whitney Houston so let’s just enjoy Rihanna’s pretty light show.

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    30 Comments

    1. Benron says:
      May 23, 2012 at 9:43 pm

      What high notes, she skipped the “l-i-i-i-ife” parts. Trent you are LOOKING to critisize, who is her rival that doesen’t skip notes live, or even sings live (A.K.A Not Beyonce) She dances stiffly, but legit, when was that news, 2005 yes, 2012 NO! She did better than usual, you can tell by Trent leaving out the words “goat” “yodel” “schreech” “strange noises” or many other of his favorite critisizims.

    2. Che_Petrillo says:
      May 23, 2012 at 9:48 pm

      Dreads and bangs? Like….why?

    3. Stoney-Brie says:
      May 23, 2012 at 9:51 pm

      she could have done better, i have to say she looks good!!!

    4. L>E>M>B says:
      May 23, 2012 at 9:55 pm

      her body looks good but that hair is a no no

    5. theman says:
      May 23, 2012 at 9:56 pm

      She was not that bad. You are starting to seem like a hater. So what if she lowered the key. You ain’t always gotta sing a song the same all the time.

    6. pisces2g says:
      May 23, 2012 at 10:07 pm

      im A big rihanna fan, and i just hope she didn’t get fake dreads for that ol bullshit of a performance…. dont she know lock wearers everywhere look down on that shit? its so disrespectful

    7. Jewerely girl says:
      May 23, 2012 at 10:13 pm

      I have to agree with Trent something was off with her voice,
      I don’t know if she was hoarse or not. I saw her perform
      this song on another show and she sounded way better
      than this. She mange to keep up with the dancers and
      she didn’t look arkward dancing with them this time.

    8. Quiero says:
      May 23, 2012 at 10:16 pm

      Why do friends of Rihanna’s boss and his wife shade Rih on Twitter about this performance if everybody performed like he boss’s wife then it’d be boring. This was a good performance and obviously the crowd and her fans loved it. Why is it that there can only be one black female popstar who is great? Why is the world unfair…there should be dozens of us the world over but no, we can only have ‘one’. Sad.

    9. sunshine says:
      May 23, 2012 at 10:22 pm

      LOL at the fact she couldnt hardly catch her breath at the end. SMH How about she stop smoking.

    10. Ariana says:
      May 23, 2012 at 10:41 pm

      The fact that some people have the nerve to defend this so-called singing… Please!

    11. DOMOdotSCORE says:
      May 23, 2012 at 11:16 pm

      This is a step up from SNL.

    12. Indigo says:
      May 23, 2012 at 11:21 pm

      Ok…If you’ve seen ANY of Rihanna’s performances from when she first came out, you’d know that she’s doing a helluvah lot better than before. I’m not excusing what was clearly a lackluster performance, but at this point we all know that her singing voice and dance skills are not what’s keeping her at the top of the charts and in our faces. It’s the look, the personality, her salability and the machine backing her. At the end of the day she’s still delivering hits, and at this stage in the game she’s probably developed a keen business sense. I don’t think that she’s that talented at all, but I gotta respect the girl’s hustle.

    13. pisces2g says:
      May 23, 2012 at 11:24 pm

      That step must be the one closest to the chair, she needs a seat until her vocals improve! Love rihanna but sick of the shit, how u cant even finish ur hit single live? I mean snl same shit, they mine as well have medical staff on stand by whenever she does this song, sheeeeeeeeeeeeeed

    14. cjmyicecream says:
      May 24, 2012 at 12:39 am

      Rihanna needs to stop smocking and partying. The illuminati won’t help you till the end cuz ppl (even her own fans are getting tired of ya gimmicks. At least this time her dance moves were less stiff than on SNL but the singing… Well considering it is rihanna it wasn’t that bad but still. Smh.

    15. cjmyicecream says:
      May 24, 2012 at 12:39 am

      Rihanna needs to stop smocking and partying. The illuminati won’t help you till the end cuz ppl (even her own fans are getting tired of ya gimmicks. At least this time her dance moves were less stiff than on SNL but the singing… Well considering it is rihanna it wasn’t that bad but still. Smh.

    16. Mooriah says:
      May 24, 2012 at 1:00 am

      She dropped the key? Lmao you a salty bitch. You got the nerve to say she lowered the key when Porky Pig-riah couldn’t even grunt a single note in any key with her fat lipsynching ass recently? lol. You glossed over that shit too with your biased ass. You aint shit.

    17. Girrrl says:
      May 24, 2012 at 1:03 am

      I liked it and I’m glad she didn’t lip sync.

    18. leya says:
      May 24, 2012 at 1:38 am

      are we seeing the same performance? she definitely sang really well. esp compared to when she first started. stop hating, give credit to improvement. she has and will continue to progress. i’m proud of rih, she is working hard and stepping it up, i can respect and commend that instead of bashing her. the only thing that annoyed me was how out of breath she was at the end. she needs to quit smoking.

    19. leya says:
      May 24, 2012 at 1:48 am

      Now your really a hater. She definitely hit that high crowwwwd note and the wheeeere have you been and she HIT THE DAMN “you can have me all you want” note. So idk where the “skips of high notes” comes in. all she skipped was the l i i i ife. STOP hating damn. Everyone that bashed this performance in the back of their head was comparing her to beyonce. stop that, they aren’t even the same type of artist . judge her as rihanna, not as if beyonce did this she would have.. etc. really gotta stop that

    20. Lola says:
      May 24, 2012 at 2:02 am

      Wow your such a hater, she’s getting nothin but love from the media from that performance,and her dance moves were fine, nothing stiff about them. Your doing way too much and making yourself look bad. Your so in the minority.

    21. Ben M. says:
      May 24, 2012 at 2:55 am

      She gave up at the end. lol I honestly don’t see why she was so out of breath after dancing in one spot. All that weed smoking, drug use, and constant touring catching up, sis?

    22. TheTruth says:
      May 24, 2012 at 3:56 am

      Rihanna is just a small island girl LIVING HER LIFE. She can do what she wants. Yeah, this performance wasn’t the greatest blah blah… Where’s the constructive critism at Trent? Sad to say you do sound like a flat out hater (if you were not then there would be a balance of good and bad points like in many of your other posts).

      ‘OMG Rih smokes’ Adele smokes too big woop! Anyway her vacay is officially over so it’s no more partying and back to work to pump out her 7th Album.

    23. TheTruth says:
      May 24, 2012 at 4:04 am

      And we all know why those bangs are there… 5head. But why not? The sad thing are the clones that will rock this hairstyle now…

    24. likane says:
      May 24, 2012 at 5:16 am

      you bitch here is that we call good performance
      Dawn Richard has a crazy talent you do not need to call Beyonce To Own talent with proof dawn richard
      rihanna after 7 years does not happen every day to sing a song properly and put on the hair how many times such a change of hairstyle this year the poor lol
      but anyway it was better vocally on snl but is stiff any day I also feel that his team tries to be so positioned beyoncé because it uses the same kind of scene many dancer decoration only we forget that he had no talent rihanna lol the funny thing is that at the end she is simply herself lol this girl is so stupid

    25. likane says:
      May 24, 2012 at 5:18 am

    26. @JeCire says:
      May 24, 2012 at 5:53 am

      There go that Triangle shit again smh Cant even trust what we hear now a days

    27. olly_tei says:
      May 24, 2012 at 7:51 am

      The stage set up was cool, but the performance looked half hearted. The camera is pretty bad as well, cuting away during the choreography

    28. olly_tei says:
      May 24, 2012 at 7:58 am

      Also i rate the fact she changes her hair often, It definitely suites the perfomance. reminds me of Predator.

    29. Ugh says:
      May 24, 2012 at 8:27 am

      It wasn’t that bad. She and Justin beiber have the same dance skills, stiff and lazy.

    30. Cliff says:
      May 24, 2012 at 8:04 pm

      she kinda looks like Left Eye with the hair, but she did okay

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