celeb news SZA reveals feeling devastated after Rihanna stole ‘Consideration’ for her album

[JBJT2786]

1) she literally says she's grateful for it cuz it literally launched her career

 

2) Again ATRL continues to pit two successful Black women against each other over a damn quote for what?!

 

 

 

[enchanted0]

 now SOS is shaping up to be bigger than any Rihanna eras. It's truly inspiring

[BionicWooHoo]

2 hours ago, Miss Show Business said:

Not every performer needs to be a writer, too. In fact, some good singers, are not good at writing songs. And we need to go back to a point where we can acknowledge that that's okay, instead of forcing artists to do things that don't emphasize their strengths.

 

I think this is what's wrong with a lot of brand new artists these days that struggle to break through. They're all expected to write their material and most of it is just garbage.

And many industry plants are good at neither 

[nostalgic]

Sensationalized title for a non-story...quelle surprise 

[rihannafan]

11 minutes ago, enchanted0 said:

 now SOS is shaping up to be bigger than any Rihanna eras. It's truly inspiring

Are you the one who said Enchanted is more known than Like A Prayer? Checks out

[airplane]

12 minutes ago, enchanted0 said:

 now SOS is shaping up to be bigger than any Rihanna eras. It's truly inspiring

NURSEEEEE

[TaggedGalaxy]

This is not something new in the industry, it happens all the same time. Amerie had a song she wrote taken from her and was supposed to be given to Jennifer Lopez, she leaked her version of the song in order to prevent it being taken from her. It's a double edged sword for newer artists, they obviously want to present their best music to the labels in order to get it released, but sometimes those labels want to take those songs for their bigger artists. At least Rihanna kept SZA on the song as a feature and didn't use her vocals with no credit

 

 

 

[Embustera]

This girl seems very shady, I don’t know if I like her. 

[airplane]

5 minutes ago, Embustera said:

This girl seems very shady, I don’t know if I like her. 

she’s a pathological liar and her lyrics are corny 

Edited December 2, 2023 by airplane

[Kiss It Better]

2 hours ago, Big Bad Wolf said:

Are we surprised? Technically, Rihanna is a foreign thief. I'm stunned at SZA's bravery to finally reveal this!

"SZA's bravery" like she said talked about this a million times in the last 7 years 

 

2020

https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2020/07/10/sza-summer-2020-issue/

Quote

“Punch gave me strict instructions not to play anything from my album, but I wasn’t about to go in there, to a room with [him] and Rihanna, and play the flops. I’m playing “Drew Barrymore” and I’m playing “Consideration”. I’m playing everything I have!” she laughs. “But Punch says, ‘I’m telling you, do not do this,’ so we agreed that I wasn’t gonna do that. Then I walk in, Pharrell is sitting there drinking wine, and I guess my hands just slipped and I played my album. I played Ctrl.”

 

2019

 

2017

 

2016

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sza-interview_n_5730c663e4b096e9f09212b0

Quote

"It was definitely just a random blessing," she said, looking back on her experience with the "Work" singer. "I made a song [Rihanna] connected to, and it just happened. She was super humble, just about everything. So it was really like, just a warm moment."

 

 

Edited December 2, 2023 by Kiss It Better

[Frogger17]

2 hours ago, rihannafan said:

People who act like having singing talent isn't enough for a singer are just... How do I say this nicely?

Why not? Ya’ll act like songwriting talent isn’t enough for certain artists, so I don’t see the difference.

[mael]

Rihanna seems to get a pass for everything.

[wish]

Not sure how I feel about SZA twisting the narrative like this. I know she's campaigning rn but this reads as ungrateful and almost like she's throwing Rihanna under the bus to make herself look like a ~true songwriter~

 

Weird behavior. Why play the victim when Consideration literally catapulted your career?

[istan4badgalriri]

a pathological liar.

[rihannafan]

26 minutes ago, Frogger17 said:

Why not? Ya’ll act like songwriting talent isn’t enough for certain artists, so I don’t see the difference.

Because those artists are also singers who can't sing and their songwriting is "spelling is fun"

[Yuanyu]

3 hours ago, FolkLover1989 said:

Album wise in USA it's shaping up to be bigger 

Rihanna was never this big on BB200

 

SZA is becoming huge album artist

Album wise in USA 

[LOTF]

4 hours ago, Miss Americana said:

And now in 2023 her music is eons better than whatever the other girls writing camp shits out AND she is bigger than that talentless thief has ever been...

Talent always finds a way to win.

SCREAM

SZA ain't touching Rihanna's status, not in a million years 

[LOTF]

1 hour ago, wish said:

this reads as ungrateful and almost like she's throwing Rihanna under the bus to make herself look like a ~true songwriter~

 

She knows that's the game that's being played right now 🥱

[DawnAnti]

WE GET IT MOVE ON MY GOD

[Prodigal Self]

[Bey'Knight]

5 hours ago, LustSpell said:

You played a great song at a writing camp, and got surprised when it got asked for? You'd think a songwriter would keep the stuff for their album private and not shown to other people. Why show the song you based YOUR album around?? Why gamble that

she was on that:

 

[mrpartyrocker]

2 hours ago, enchanted0 said:

 now SOS is shaping up to be bigger than any Rihanna eras. It's truly inspiring

how does it feel living in a world so delusional? 

[Soda Pop Queen]

Some people getting on sza head here but I kinda understand her frustration at the time. She was "in a writing camp" back then but it wouldn't surprise me if she was forced to be in one in order to get funded by the label (the conglomerate over TDE). She had 0 bargaining power and name status in the industry in 2016 as she was still an indie girl. Also, this isn't the first time she's talked about it. 

 

but what's done is done. Rih added another dope track to her acclaimed Anti record and SZA went on to make her own star, writing many more songs as good as, if not better than, Consideration. They both benefited. 

[mrpartyrocker]

4 hours ago, Blade Runner said:

She's decent and does the bare minimum that it's required for someone so famous. djhf But talent? lol Be frrrr. 

You’re talking as if Madonna is some kind of a vocalist or professional dancer. Y’all should look more into your faves “talents” before making up narratives about others. 

[mrpartyrocker]

I mean I get that in the end she was grateful and stuff but I will never understand artists that started off as songwriters complain about how their work was “stolen” from them. I mean you were doing this for a living, girl. You chose to start off as a songwriter and literally Rihanna launched her in the industry (aside of the fact that she made enough bucks to live off it). Rihanna kept her on the track and even offered her the opportunity to perform on one of the most important award show stages. If she was this “b!tch” y’all portrait her to be, she would’ve sang it on her own. I hate to see that Rihanna doesn’t get the credit she deserves for supporting new coming artists and songwriters that don’t get many opportunities to live off that activity.