0% Nudity

0% Drugs

0% Autotune

100% pure talent

This performance is just pure CLASS, raw TALENT, full EMOTION. no ONE, absolutely NO one has done a performance better than this. No need of 90 dancers and tacky light, just a woman with a mic ON. I don't think we've seen a performance of this magnitude ever since.

Do you agree?

love rih and this performance, but no

Nope

The criteria being no nudity, drugs, or autotune...

6 minutes ago, Reginald said:

The criteria being no nudity, drugs, or autotune...

There was recently a thread praising this performance of pure exhibitionism mixed with flashing lights and 15 dancers to distract the people from the lack of vocal talent. I think Atrl should go back to the days of pure artistry. There's no one like Riri

@Cheers

IDK but it gave us the 'give her her 10s!' quote from Zach so it's important to me regardless

I still can't believe she had one era where she actually showed signs of artistic maturity and ability (ie actually co writing music and giving A tier performances) and then just dipped. I have no doubt she would have actually put out something worthy of that title if she was interested in a music career, imagine an album better than Anti

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Why you have to set her up like that

No, it's this

Britney. Slave. VMAs.

Nope, not while this performance exists...

Like, how effortless was that?

Her voice was the 8th wonder of the world. Along with her charisma and presence to back it up..

no but it's her best

11 hours ago, Kabrona said:

0% Nudity

What's exactly wrong with nudity? It's great when done tastefully and with class. Rihanna's the perfect example for it

i miss riri

...so it's this

...or this

...even this

...in fact, have a compilation!

Girl...

Riri is a super cool makeup seller former entertainer, don't get me worng, but if you say "top 50 best performances ever" i wouldn't think of her for any spot. She's basic on stage.

Queen Rih! Tate is the new Rihanna btw

Gowns, beautiful gowns.

Well no but Katy and Taylor cannot deliver a performance like that so yeah good for her

Well no but it's one of the best in the past 10 years. Rih's been an underrated (by online pop stans) performer her entire career.

This is neither 2000 or 2001 VMA Britney so not quite but it's also a performance that I love very much and probably my fav Ri performance overall