![]() But Rihanna is a far more nebulous talent. While singing “The Glamorous Life” by Sheila E., she walked to a platform at the rear of the arena then banged out an exceedingly simple drum pattern on a kit set up there.īeyoncé, say, would have practiced hard to get her skill level up to passable. She’s a dance-pop star who isn’t much of a dancer every time she moved, her backup crew clustered tightly around her as if to shield her. Onstage Rihanna slithered, she hopped, she sashayed. Otherwise compensations were the thing here. That uncertainty and lack of power were most evident when she walked through the crowd during the up-tempo smash “Don’t Stop the Music.” Only in a few more contemplative moments later in the show - “Take a Bow,” “Hate That I Love You” and “California King Bed” - did she relieve her band, her dancers and the sound system from doing the heavy lifting. That’s because Rihanna is an able but not powerful singer who mushes her words together into long, bulky blocks and rarely shoots for big moments.
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