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Rihanna sold her standard coffe table photobook for $150 dollars. It is a 502 pages high gloss paper book consisting of more than 1,000 pictures taken by a whole world renowned photographer, Dennis Leupold, who has done editorials for luxury brands and fashion magazines, taken during a span of YEARS. The other editions you're referring to had actual gold plate stands and the rare ones which were only 10 in the whole world were marble sculptures done by world renowned artists The Haas Brothers. While one could make an argument for how expensive luxury items (which the Rihanna coffee table book and its stands are), it is beyond ridiculous to compare it to a small empty pine wood box. The levels of craftsmanship, the quality of materials used, the time spent in developing, the costs of production and the different processes, the market values, etc of both items are so dissimilar that it's beyond comprehension that anyone would even compare the two scenarios

Good for the hive. Anyone buying a pine box, with pine being the cheapest kind of wood, for 1,000 dollars is a complete and utter fool. I still can't believe she did this

Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman 9X Platinum 2.66M units ( An impressive feat of being the best selling album by a Black female artist in the U.K. Rih will eventually surpass her but still incredible) Olivia Newton-John Grease Soundtrack 9X Platinum 2.7M units Kylie Minogue Kylie 7X Platinum 2.1M units Tina Turner Foreign Affair 5X Platinum 1.5M units

Xtina absolutely pulled off her reinventions. I think she gets dragged a lot because of petty stan wars, but it's odd how y'all can lie and not give credit where it's due. She absolutely kicked it out of the park with both Stripped coming from her teen era and then Back To Basics was brilliantly done image wise as well. Bionic didn't quite go the way it was supposed to but those first years were very well executed.

It should be Lady Gaga. Don't care if she doesn't have an era to promote, give it to her and get her up on that stage where she does a medley. She can have a 4 part one like Rih did. Anyone else before her wouldn't make sense.

Sure Thing becoming such a big hit worldwide is wild to me

I think that I just learned about her existence like two weeks ago is a terrible thing and her label should have made her more present in media before her album released.

Yeah this is outrageous Is it because she had to self-fund during B-Day and is trying to get back the money?

There aren't many highly visible feminists with marxist leanings. I think Angela Davis (who has her share of wrong standings) is probably the only popular one who's alive? But even then, I think it's usually more important not to fixate on an individual and elevate them to idol status. Especially where the socio-political is involved. There are many individuals in history who we can learn from, including Steinem with her flaws, without elevating them to be paragons of whatever ideals we have. They are human after all, and they're bound to disappoint you.

I think, Steinem, like a lot of people, simply focused on issues that were most pressing to her identity. She certainly believed in feminism, and her grandmother belonged to a suffrage movement. That her fight for equality didn't include class isn't unique. There are a lot of people whose beliefs of equality don't go beyond what would benefit them, I know a lot of communists and socialists who are misogynistic and homophobic. Of course this doesn't erase the work she did, but also her work with the CIA didn't involve overthrowing governments or the more sinister operations the organization has done in its history. However, her claiming she would still work with them despite all we know is disappointing. I don't think she was intentionally subversive with prioritizing feminism, she just happened to be a feminist who is not communist (like the majority of individuals across all equality groups) and who had short-lived ties with the CIA (very few can claim this). The CIA association is bound to taint her work, and for good reason, but multiple things can be true at once. EDIT: This is a response to the Steinem posturing bit, and think one can believe in one side of equality and disregard the other. I agree with pretty much everything you've stated otherwise. Especially that gender without addressing class struggle amounts to little.

Not sure whether I should @ you (but won't because it might bring you unwanted attention) but please post something so that the navy don't think you have some exclusive and start another meltdown

The diverse genres in the hits too, from a doo-*** influenced track to an EDM track like literally no one is doing it like her. Probably the most legendary catalogue of the millennium

The way fear of music being AI is going to make people cling to older songs even more

That's not what you had said though, you had tried to minimize their bigotry by making a blanket statement about "none of our faves being saints". No one denied that they had good music, but questioning why people don't look past their bigotry when most of the members of this site are queer is ridiculous. One member is virulent in her hate, she's part of the group, too bad that she's tainted their image because of her bigotry but people (especially queer individuals) are allowed to not **** with them.

If you're fine with listening and praising homophobes, fine and dandy. Doesn't mean everyone has to. Neither of them support the queer community, and one of them is strongly and openly against gay people. If a gay person decides that a deal breaker for them, then that's a deal breaker for them, period. Trying to make it into "none of our faves are saints" as though they've said they wouldn't want a gay son or compared homosexuals to criminals is dumb, especially considering they still hold these views and didn't retract.

Because they're bigoted homophobes?

Toxic We Found Love Summertime Sadness Cruel Summer Someone Like You Halo 7 Rings Die With A Smile/Dark Horse (tie)

It was her best album the moment it dropped, and it remains her best album today. Self-titled comes close, but Renaissance has too many highs and is way higher sonically.

It's actually Xtina by a bit. Her first album is almost diamond, and Stripped was massive as well. Future Nostalgia was a huge era for Dua but she doesn't have another era that was also huge as Xtina did. But also Dua is younger and still relevant, so she most likely will surpass her if things go well for her, but it's Xtina at the moment.