March 26th, 2012 at 10:00AM
Rihanna is often described as a ‘manufactured’ pop star, because she doesn’t write her songs, but neither did Sinatra or Elvis. She embodies a song in the way an actor inhabits a role—and no one expects the actor to write the script. - John Seabrook, “The Song Machine,” The New Yorker, March 26, 2012

Rihanna is often described as a ‘manufactured’ pop star, because she doesn’t write her songs, but neither did Sinatra or Elvis. She embodies a song in the way an actor inhabits a role—and no one expects the actor to write the script.

- John Seabrook, “The Song Machine,” The New Yorker, March 26, 2012

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