RiRi sings real good on X Factor

Rihanna‘s given enough good vocal performances by now to consider her a strong singer, but somehow it’s still a shock whenever she gets on stage and doesn’t sound like a dying goat. I guess all those early years of vocal torture really left a scar.

Anyway, RiRi performed her new single, “Stay”, on the X Factor finale last night, serving up CD quality audio like a true kween. She wasn’t so hot during “We Found Love”, though, finishing off that performance with an ear-shattering banshee screech that reminded me of the vocal atrocities that she’s sometimes capable of.

Really though, I’m just confused as to why RiRi’s performing last era’s hit when she just dropped a new record. Are her back-to-back album releases so close together that she can’t remember which song is from which album?

In other news, homegirl is still tweeting photos of herself naked and with Chris Brown for attention. It seems like an awful lot of work just to promote an album. If she just focused on making good music and giving flaw-free vocals like tonight’s “Stay” rendition, she wouldn’t need to twerk on Breezy’s pencil dick for publicity any more.

Am I right?

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  • Mike502

    LOL you’re just like the Rihanna of bloggin’.. you don’t give a fuck about anything…and you love big cocks so fucking much… LOL
    I love you proph…
    PD: thatgrapejuice is like the Beyonce of bloggin’… so… don’t be mad at me….

    And Riri was great…

  • Adamoadam

    Her “naked” pictures look like they were taken at the end of a drunken’/coke filled Christmas Eve party in 1973.

  • http://twitter.com/DarkKard4 Sunny

    I LOVED THIS PERFORMANCE!! I’ve never seen the audience so excited either.

  • SerferTJ

    Damn, Chris’ pencil peen must double as a throat lozenge, cuz Rih’s vocals have been ON POINT this era!
    And I actually like the fact that she’s focusing on ballads this era, cuz it shapes her as a more of a well-rounded artist. Maybe by album number 8 (next fall) I’ll commit myself to being a fan again.

  • Albert

    Flawless from start to finish! Really loving her this era. Hope it lasts more than a year before the next one..lol.

  • Guest

    Why do I find it weird that the words good and Rihanna are in the same sentence?

  • http://twitter.com/TheProphetBlog The Prophet

    Not sure if that was a diss or compliment!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Quiana-Jackson/1219808991 Quiana Jackson

    you anit never lied. lmao at prop.

  • Mike502

    compliment of course!

  • TT

    “Breezy’s pencil dick” LOL

  • http://www.twitter.com/themusicprophet The Music Prophet

    ‘Stay’, as I’ve said before is one of the only unapologetic tracks I kept… And this performance shows why. The song shows such a strong vulnerability … It’s amazing… And I’ll admit it… She nailed the performance

  • itstwitmebetch

    She didnt sound like a goat this time. Keep it up Riri.

  • http://twitter.com/thsbtch_ andrew
  • http://twitter.com/nicphillips83 Nic Phillips

    “Really though, I’m just confused as to why RiRi’s performing last era’s hit when she just dropped a new record.” OMG exactly what I was thinking! Someone needs to remind her that was last album, even though it was only out like 6 months ago :p

  • XF

    That might have been the best live vocal of her career.

  • Marhaebwa

    Rihanna’s last line on X Factor: “We Found Love in a HOPE LESS PL^*”$^&%!*!^£&*C***banshee wail***JBHJAAS***crack***BBAJSKG***pussypopped***&!^%”^&CE!”
    Afterwards, giving minimal fucks.

    Lol, in a crazy way, she’s proving NEAR-flawless this time round.

  • HotBlackTea

    This album is GOOD shit. I can’t get enough of it. And Stay is my JAM. Ride that dick like a pony – just don’t tweet that nasty incest shit to us.

  • iAmAwesome

    “Art.”

  • iAmAwesome

    I didn’t hear what you heard, because…

  • Brandon

    Say what you will about Rihanna, but she basically sets the standard for all of the pop star bitches to follow. I can’t think of a pop star more dedicated to promoting her music.

  • WTF

    We have a Mariah over here

  • gotgotgone

    ”Really though, I’m just confused as to why RiRi’s performing last era’s
    hit when she just dropped a new record. Are her back-to-back album
    releases so close together that she can’t remember which song is from
    which album?” That made me lol. I am so glad she is finally slaying with her performances. Not as good as her SNL performance though.

  • Blah

    the first half was a great performance and i like that she’s gone back to the short hair, she looks great!

    btw proph, did you know that no doubt are back in the studio? i was pretty surprised! i hope they’re pulling a “rock steady” kind of thing, only months after their previous album http://beaconstreetonline.net/no-doubt/video-no-doubt-backstage-interview-at-kroq-acc

  • Robert

    Are we watching the same video? She sounds the same really

  • http://twitter.com/satnitespecial Tay

    They don’t belong together…the fact that he added “vocal” to the title made me dry-heave

  • NomNoms

    I’m probably the only one who liked that banshee wail. Makes me wanna hear her rip some vocals on some edgier tracks.

  • Faithz
  • Faithz

    I am glad that she has toned it down, and gotton
    serious for this Era.

  • Faithz

    Rihanna works hard and play hard and shes the only female
    in the entertainment industry who is knocked for working as hard as she
    does and she is compared to Beyonce more then all of the other artist put together.

  • Faithz

    She is also called more nasety names then all of the Porn
    stars put together all over the Universe.

  • Faithz

    If Beyonce Fans could wiggle their nose and
    turn Rihanna into a frog they would have did
    it so many years ago that Rihanna’s name
    would only be a distance memory.

  • Faithz

    The 13th word of the first verse of the first song on “Unapologetic,” the seventh album by Rihanna, is a curse, and she relishes it, hitting the syllables hard, spitting them out sharply as if she hoped they might wound someone. The song, “Phresh Out the Runway,” is a chaotically dense spray of boasts over a muscular, scraping beat. Rihanna sounds indignant and impressed with herself, proclaiming, “Walk up in this bitch like I own the ho.”

  • Faithz

    Rihanna’s new album makes forays into tough sounds fit for a James Bond movie or strip clubs; at other times, she is vulnerable.

  • Faithz

    Rihanna isn’t so much profane in language though certainly sometimes that as in presence. Of all the pop megastars of the 2000s, she is without peer when it comes to her image, which is steely and unforgiving and bulletproof, a pleasure-guided man-killer with concrete for skin.

  • Faithz

    That doesn’t mean she’s never hurt on “Unapologetic” (Def Jam), which is one of her best albums, along with her 2007 breakthrough, “Good Girl Gone Bad,” and her 2010 pop peak, “Loud.” But even on the most vulnerable songs, she maintains her cool, never once verging on the maudlin.

  • Faithz

    The character on this album is the product of several years’ refining, a process that began with her 2006 single“Unfaithful,” an aching song befitting a singer with far more shading to her voice.

  • Faithz

    Rihanna never did become a powerful singer, but by the time of “Good Girl Gone Bad,” her third album, she had begun to understand the limitations of the contours of her voice, and its advantages. She would never be the best vocalist on the pop charts, but she could be the most attitudinal, the most salacious, the most bitter. She could invent a persona as big as the songs.

  • Faithz

    And so, over the years, as her game face froze in place, her voice cured into a weapon of emotional chill and strategic indifference. It’s decidedly unfriendly, made to give orders. It matters way more than anything she might say.

    Take “Numb,” a sinuous collaboration with Eminem that appears early on the new album. Rihanna has maybe three dozen words between the first two verses, but her meaning is clear from the delivery, which is forceful and slurry, alternating between stretched and staccato vowels

  • Faithz

    Who but Rih would show up on the world stage

    looking like this but Rihanna,,,

    http://i.huffpost.com/gen/659544/thumbs/m-RIHANNA-HACKNEY-WEEKEND-620x930c.jpg?6

  • Faithz

    If only we could some how build a fire under Beyonce so that she could bring something new, and different to the table , that would be great.

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jXMIsK3dV50/S9XQ4hLfF6I/AAAAAAAAZTE/vTekTAF0NSw/s1600/Rihanna+Gold+Horned+Mask.jpg

  • faithz

    You can always count on Rihanna to
    add something to the mix .
    http://img.youtube.com/vi/eMOIUUS8GWo/0.jpg

  • Faithz
  • Faithz

    This chick’s beautiful eyes, many talks about that big head but if there was a way to get a brand new designer head them there are many who
    would have ordered theirs years ago.

    http://www.ultimate-rihanna.com/gallery/albums/Photoshoots/2010/normal_Rihanna-sexy-1576351.jpg

  • Faithz

    Don’t you wish you had been invited to the party.

  • Faithz

    Bitter Bird pressed to the Max.

  • Faithz

    I don’t know what you mean but on the Grape Juice if you are not riding with Beyonce then your butt gets banned try it and see, they want nothing but Positivity on and about Beyonce and they never ever post anything negative on Beyonce and give the likes of Rihanna and others the blues.

  • Faithz

    Speaking of performing old stuff did you happen to see the Performer who did the Super Bowl Half time show for 2013.

  • Faithz

    So refreshing and about time for this slowed down sound from Her.

  • Faithz

    To me shes still working on her art as time goes on.

  • G

    she sounds better these days because most of her current songs have been in a lower register! her voice is lower in diamonds and stay, she isn’t straining to hit higher notes! i personally never liked her music until i heard her singing in lower keys.