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Post by darko95 on Aug 11, 2014 13:50:10 GMT -5
I've never heard of a producer or writer blocking somebody from performing on an awards show...something sounds off
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on Aug 13, 2014 5:18:12 GMT -5
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Post by Live Your Life on Aug 13, 2014 9:23:28 GMT -5
What the hell does she do to these men? He's being a bitter bitch, just like when Rob Kardashian went on his Twitter rant after they broke up.
Apparently, she's dating one of Tommy Hilfiger's sons now.
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Post by Sir Benji on Aug 13, 2014 9:56:37 GMT -5
It's obvious they had a bad break up and it's obvious that both parties still have feelings for each other.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 13, 2014 11:40:33 GMT -5
How did I miss this gem? The same way I have missed Rita Oral's career, it seems. @ her naming a burger joint after her vag tho. Edit: Buuut, it's fake so... Why am I not surprised? Rita is a heartbreaker. Calvin must have really loved her because I don't think he would allow a relationship to f**k up his money. LOL. His money is fine without the likes of Rita Ora. He is essentially putting her in her place. Who's gon' make hits for her now? Does she have a sex tape yet? Maybe once Black Widow becomes a number 1 smash, more offers will come in for this chick. I actually really like her part on that song.
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Post by Kishi KCM on Aug 13, 2014 14:03:21 GMT -5
Rita got them good sugar walls! She got these men FUMING! But she better not phuck up her career and my jams, I NEED IWNLYD to be a hit!
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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 13, 2014 16:44:52 GMT -5
He lost points with me for being such a bitter bitch; try being a businessman first. Whatever she did ain't worth losing coins over.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 16:48:41 GMT -5
Maybe she called him out his name and said his production was wack or something. That is the only conceivable explanation for why a grown man would throw such a hissy fit over a professional Rihanna impersonator.
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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 13, 2014 17:12:24 GMT -5
Maybe she called him out his name and said his production was wack or something. In her Ryan Seacrest interview, she said that he's an amazing songwriter and she would never discredit his talent.
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on Aug 13, 2014 17:31:26 GMT -5
He probably found out she used him only for these songs... There are legends how little this girl needs to spread her legs. She's trying for so long to make her carrer happen, and there are like two or three song that are worth-listening to imo. Shame She's already an epitome of wasted potential to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 15:57:13 GMT -5
It's sort of a two way street - she clearly did something trife, but he needs to be the better person. I don't blame him for taking the unreleased songs he wrote for her back, but let her have the single at least. That said, Calvin has a history of calling people out when he feels slighted (see Katy Perry, Roisin Murphy) and giving no fucks about whether anyone thinks he's being a whiny brat about it, so we know that he's not one to take anyone's bullshit lying down. Rita just crossed the wrong one.
I suspect there's more to it than just 'she cheated and I'm heartbroken' though. They're on the same label. Never mind how Calvin feels about effing up his money, how does Roc Nation feel about him possibly interfering with theirs? And the fact that they've basically 'let' him block her like this instead of intervening really makes me wonder what she did to have no one in her corner, even for the sake of business. In fact, when Calvin was mad at Katy and Roisin it was because he felt that had interfered with his craft and/or money. So I think that Rita must have done something to make him feel the same, and if she did cheat that just made the whole thing worse.
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Post by Dammn Baby on Aug 15, 2014 4:11:33 GMT -5
This bitch needs some relationship counselling.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Aug 15, 2014 8:42:26 GMT -5
Calvin is a douche.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Aug 15, 2014 9:26:27 GMT -5
Hell Hath No Fury Like Calvin Harris.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 9:28:44 GMT -5
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 20, 2014 13:22:04 GMT -5
These women need to stop being industry THOTS and love themselves and their vaginas. Fucking for tracks got her here and if she keeps doing it, the cycle of never-wasness will never end.
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Post by allow that on Aug 20, 2014 13:31:43 GMT -5
f**king for tracks got her here and if she keeps doing it, the cycle of never-wasness will never end. She has four #1's in her own country though... f**king for publicity is probably more like it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 14:01:46 GMT -5
Rita wouldn't be the first Brit who is a star in her homeland but can't get off the ground in the US and will hardly be the last. The weird thing with Calvin is that he tends to be the exact opposite of a publicity whore, so his relationship with Rita was unusual from the outset. If anything, she was the one who brought all the publicity to the table since he normally shied away from it. I do think she was just with him for a come-up though, and now it's backfiring badly.
My question is did the label put all their 'hits' eggs in one basket with Calvin or what? There's no excuse for her having not announced a second single coming soon and I was under the impression that Calvin didn't work on her entire album, just several songs. Putting another single out there would give her and her team time to cobble together some more songs for a full CD, but right now I sense that she has been left completely hanging.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 20, 2014 15:57:03 GMT -5
Looks like Rita will have to find someone else to show her talents to if she wants to escape local status.
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Post by Kurt on Sept 12, 2014 14:10:15 GMT -5
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on Sept 12, 2014 14:43:09 GMT -5
I have a feeling she'll pull 20k at best.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Sept 14, 2014 23:39:59 GMT -5
Total?
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Post by Queen of Insomnia. on Sept 15, 2014 11:12:07 GMT -5
^Well, when I thought about it you are probably right
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Post by Glove Slap on Sept 19, 2014 17:08:35 GMT -5
It's interesting that despite so many connections, and so much money, both from her team/label and herself (unlike most acts trying to break through in the US, she's actually extremely extremely wealthy), she still hasn't found the stateside success that others have had in recent years with far smaller budgets. No one ever promoted Ellie Goulding, Florence Welch, Ed Sheeran, etc. as the next big thing stateside, they just started small, connected and developed those connections further, often without traditional radio success pushing units.
The biggest issue with her first album was that even though they worked on it for so long, most of the songs sounded like they belonged when they actually started, so around 2009-2010. Some stuff sounded like it belonged even further back than that. And even though I liked it, trying to break her with How We Do (Party) stateside wasn't a good decision.
A lot of her popularity seems to be smoke and mirrors, her success musically so far doesn't point to someone with a celebrity as large as hers. She may have 4 #1s, but if you look at their chart runs they opened huge and then didn't stick around and don't really have massive totals. When you compare them to songs from Rihanna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, some of which didn't even hit #1, Ritas numbers for her chart-toppers look far less impressive. Her album hit #1 too, but the opening sales weren't up to par with other big breakthroughs (Jessie J, Emeli Sande, etc.) and they had to discount it frequently to get it to platinum. They poured money into it, but in the end she didn't approach the numbers that Ellie, Emeli, Lana, Ed, Florence, and some others put up with a much smaller hype machine, not even close.
I do see her developing more as a J.Lo-style celebrity. She had big hits, but her album sales were never stratospheric. However, her celebrity was absolutely colossal, and the reason she's stayed profitable into the present day. To Rita's benefit, she's starting young so she'll be able to enjoy her 20s in the major limelight much more so than Jennifer did. They've started too with the whole 50 shades role. When I Will Never Let You Down was coming out in the UK, she kept talking about the role for over half of pretty much all her interviews and then just mentioned her single as an afterthought. After her album didn't really go on to be a massive success and her stateside attempt failed, her entire musical career just went on the backburner in many ways. She might have really liked the taste of fame when she was with Kardashian, so perhaps she's decided to focus on maintaining and developing that, which certainly isn't a bad idea as that kind of profile definitely opens doors. You'd never think of Calvin Harris as someone who'd be part of a talked about couple, but she just brought all the publicity from her previous relationship into it full force. I can't even really fault Calvin for what he did. The entire time they were together, there were all these rumors about her just getting with others behind his back. It's proven that Calvin has a close eye on social media, the news, and what's being said about him and his work. He must have really cared for her to just ignore that the entire world was watching them and seeing him as the guy who was getting duped. Imagine how horrible it would feel to see that the world was ultimately right.
It also seems that for whatever reason, Roc Nation REALLY wants her to be a huge star, their thirst is hilarious. They seem to be fine with her treating music more and more like a side career, or just one part of many ventures. Music may have gotten her foot in the door, but now she can just make her name in other ways. She doesn't even seem to care that her reputation is already in the f**king gutter, their entire strategy seems to just be to continuously just hoard publicity. Props to her though, it's not like she's a starving artist who has to do or die in the industry. She's already made her fortune and is just doing what she wants, she's a literal example of a strong, independent woman. She's not getting money from some sugar daddy or from people she f**ks, she has legitimate business and investment ventures, so she'll always have that. She's probably gonna end up a successful socialite.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2014 18:24:53 GMT -5
I think a big part of her problem is that, for whatever reason, despite the money/promo/machine that she has been afforded, she has not landed herself a real breakthrough hit. A big difference between her and the other artists you mentioned, imo, is that they are all renowned to varying degrees for their artistry whereas Rita is largely looked at as a Katy Perry/Rihanna/Gaga wannabe whose music is very superficial factory pop. So she doesn't really get any critical acclaim or recognition and since the music isn't exactly sticking with the radio listening GP, she's just in a very bad place as a pop star. Her efforts remind me a lot of Nicole Scherzinger or even like...early Mandy Moore. But the big difference, as you stated, is that Rita has branded herself as a celebrity to the point where people know her name (and face because of the eerie Rihanna resemblance) without knowing anything about her. I don't think it will ever happen (because I think she's just exhausted all her chances at this point) but I really think all it would've taken was a through and through hit that couldn't be denied to move her to at least mid-tier pop star. I think RIP came the closest to that but ultimately was probably just a little too dated and a little too generic to really make moves for her.
I feel like the most confusing part is definitely Roc Nation's consistent backing of an out and out flop. I wonder what their ideal plan of action was/is for her career.
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Post by allow that on Sept 26, 2014 11:28:59 GMT -5
Interesting move!
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Nov 2, 2014 21:06:53 GMT -5
I love me some Rita but biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch you tried it
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Post by Glove Slap on Nov 8, 2014 21:18:14 GMT -5
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Post by Fancy on Nov 8, 2014 21:21:02 GMT -5
lmfao what the fuck?
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