More stupid hogwash drivel, and you're even trying to pass it off as resting on some kind of "objective truth" pushed up on the shoulders of imposing critics and stuff like "lists of the 500 greatest songs ever" etc. And clearly in your little world if somebody tells a few plain truths about your idols and their lack of musical substance or even real, long-term impact (beyond sales numbers in records and merchandise), then that person is a "hater".
You're not even a decent troll. I feel sorry for the people who have to hang out with you in real life; you are simply clueless and obnoxious and very ignorant.
A few words about charts and sales. Performers/songwriters like Janet Jackson, Elton John, David Bowie, Diana Ross, really any band or singer who scored hits back in the day, were launching their hit singles and albums (who seriously cares about a Rihanna album?) at a time when charts were always fiercely competitive. It was extremely difficult to get to number one, it was very hard for artists with a small, fringe fanbase to even get into the top ten, and few tracks stayed on the top spot for more than a week or two. But kids these days barely buy singles anymore and are used to living with a wallpaper of cheap muzak that's as much visual as musical, so there's much less of real competition to hit the upper reaches of the charts. That's why shock tactics and novelty tricks have become so much more important to get to the top of the charts - that or media exposure of a kind that's got no connection at all to the music.
And the magazine critics? Often they are under much stronger pressure than you realize to sugar-coat it when they talk about the new starlets, the likes of Rihanna, Pink, Justin Bieber, Christina Aguilera - their editors don't want the paper or website to appear standoffish and uninterested towards what's high on the charts, or what "the city kids are talking about". If they wrote just from their own tastes and their own understanding of music, many of them wouldn't bother about Rihanna, LMFAO, Nicki Minaj or even Madonna's recent stuff - they would be a lot more openly critical of it. But they have to be seen to pull in new readers or their bosses or the folks who buy ads in those papers and who want to reach a young audience would give them a long hard look.
Industry awards like the grammies, the MTV awards and so on are essentially glorified handouts to the artists who have flogged the most copy over the last year or who seem to have a buzz about them at the moment. They are mostly quite irrelevant as a criterion of the importance and outreach of an artist. Almost no one will really miss Rihanna and her music five years after she's quit the music scene.
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