Rihanna performs a medley of “Needed Me,” “Pour It Up,” and “Bitch Better Have My Money” live at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York City. vevo.ly/2sMkUV
usually the artists censor the swearing but she didn't so the producers had to. the same thing happened in don't hurt yourself in beyoncé's performance
@@-uglyhag-5000 no it’s her being off key. They blocked off certain words. And she can’t sing anyway. Her music just attracts people not her voice baby. Go check her out singing hero by Mariah Carey. Sounds like a cat dying in heat.
This is one of my favorite performances. Even though she made some mistakes, it was fire. not everything needs to be perfect. The whole aesthetic and the transition between the songs was amazing and I love it.
Yes! I agree. I love this performance and the bitch better have my money performance when she wears the green boots and the furry green coat. She was pulling her dress down during the whole performance. It’s kinda charming how she shows she’s not perfect on hollywood where everyone is “perfect”. Lol
Her mic sensitivity was programmed too low, so her voice sounds too direct and isolated, so its throwing her off. You need some reverb or else your voice is puncturing through the song it sounds unnatural especially in a song thats low and quiet like "needed me." Reverb fixes the pitchiness.
Dancers ON MOTHERFUCKING FLEeEeEKKKK. Were they in some LSD, cocaine shit? Damn ReQuest Dance Crew always slay but this performance is next level baddeness. Also Im writing a book about Rih's boots, cause look at them honey. Wait for it.
Jaylen Cox Honey I know, they're ReQuest Dance Crew, the ones from the Justin's Sorry video, they've performed with Jlo and rih before, they're the shit
IDC WHAT NONE OF Y'ALL SAY MY BABY CAN SING AND EVEN THOUGHT THE NEEDED ME PART WAS A BIT OFF SHE CAME BACK LATER AND SLAYED WITH DIAMONDS/STAY/LOTB. "RIHANNA CAN'T SING" MY ASS.
Not y’all talking about her voice 🥴. RIHANNA did what needed to be done. Gave looks, choreo, and one heck of a performance 👏🏿🥰! I miss her being on stage.
For all y'all sayin she fucked up Needed Me, it's bc she couldn't hear herself. And she still did better than any of y'all could do soo.... THAS MY BABYYYYY😍😍
i watched a lot of anti tour performances of needed me. She sounded exactly like this. So she can't hear herself every time she sings needed me? excuses excuses lol
She was singing the high notes in the background of the original song. That’s exactly how it was in the original song the only difference is, it was in the background there and here she is singing it as the mainline .
I can understand some people commenting about her voice. Her voice was overused she did a dozen of shows during the amazing ANTI World Tour and Rih slayed giving it her all! Everything was perfect during that tour but especially the ballads. She sang LIVE and Rih picks the ballads that give you true emotions but those are harder to sing. Stay, Diamonds and Love on the Brain f.e. are very high pitched songs and not even Mariah or other big names can sing those high pitched songs night after night without it effecting their voice. It's impossible but if you were at ANTI then you know she gave us the best of the best!
Beyoncé and Mariah are known to be professional lip synchers. Beyoncé lipsynched for ages but because of that incident when people found out she's more cautious on when to lip sync and the songs on formation weren't as high pitched as the one Rih does. People have made comments about Rih's voice in the past because she sings live! There will always be live audio on almost all of her videos here on youtube taken by fans. I'd rather have a note that's not totally perfect then to watch someone do a karaoke on their own songs.
Some people just hit the jackpot in life! Looks, figure, talent - then, they also have drive, ambition and a crazy work ethic. She's beautiful and so talented but she's worked hard and I hope she's enjoying her success!🥂
I'm so happy that this video was posted because I was there that night. During the transition from Pour It Up to BBHMM I screamed so loud and wiled out so much that she whipped her head at me and smiled. One of the greatest moments in my life.
naw nicki minaj doesnt deserve her fame after she married a pedophile and supported another pedophile then paid the little girls they r@ped hush money.
Needed me was garbage. I cringe and replayed because I was surprised she could mess it up that much. But she got better. Her last Performance of the vma night was the best out of hers. Still like her though
Orrii A. it really didn't sound that bad to me but maybe that's because I've heard the song like 3 times and I don't remember how she's supposed to sing it lol
i love Rihanna as well as Beyoncé but arent you a bit annoyed and bored with Beyoncé's same clothing and same kinda dance steps? Rihannas style changhes a lot and you can see different things from her. Im not hating
+Jessica Marie better than bey anyway.. Rihanna didnt have to buy The Vanguard Award like Beyoncé who bought all the 8 awards.. She didnt deserve them. This is what I read on the magazine
I agree Kittie Cat, RiRi is young and full of different style, u never know what she's gonna bring.. I love both of them, but can RiRi shine too, Yonce., been shining and thats what's up, but its the same ole same ole. SWITCH!!!!
+kittie cat really, your quoting what you read on a magazine, written by someone who probably had no sources and just wanted to write something so that it could be published... sweetheart, please don't do things like that, it could easily be mistaken for ignorance whether or not Beyonce deserved those awards, she was the most deserving of them. Even if you may dislike her, and i really didn't care for lemonade, but its obvious that even if it was not a stellar performance of an album, she has put in more work into her music than most artists today, and more than any other artist that was nominated
i don’t get it!! i looooved this performance and i come back to rewatch! she’s just unapologetic herself and what she’s feeling...y’all don’t even know what real sounds like anymore!
Pour it Up and BBHMM were fantastic! The show was amazing and her voice too! Yeah, Needed me wasn't so good but not horrible like everyone says! I loved all Rihanna's performances on VMA, she's fierce!
I like this performance better than her superbowl performance something about her performance at the superbowl and that stupid red shit she had on that made me hate that performance I know she was pregnant but I still hate her superbowl performance but still love rhianna forever
