She's really coming with this record. I'm glad she's making the music she wants to make

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAS BLESS us LORD!

Glad you got all that from a snippet.

What? Where do you get Rihanna from FourFiveSeconds and Higher? They're literally female Kanye songs. They sound exactly like what hes doing right now. Hes handling her strings clearly.

Im obsessed with this snippet on rihplay

She SLAYED ME
Its incredible
R8 is gonna be ha masterpiece

How much more do I need to hear? How drastically different could the rest of the song be? Thats such a dumb defense. You don't have to get so defensive with me anyway, I love Rihanna.

I wanted R8 to be dark grim polished production with rnb and hip hop flare.... this will do I suppose. the second snippet slayed me though.

Lol. You're missing a huge portion of the song though. There could be any number of melodies/sounds/instruments/vocials in the middle of this song that you have no clue about.

Serving vocals.

I prefer Towards the Sun over FFS and this mess

Higher is Pure rih to me tbh
Im not gettin that female Kanye vibe at all

You guys are too much. Stan logic. Her voice and the production of the track in this snippet make it a partner to FourFiveSeconds. They're both representative of a certain sound that is apart of this new record of which sounds like Kanye's influence is dominant because its very very reminiscent of the music he is making for himself at the moment which I am not into. Im not writing off the entire album and saying Rihanna sucks now blah blah blah, im actually really looking forward to hearing the rest of it because its obvious it seems to be a departure from the sound of her previous records. But all I was saying was these two tracks are wack to me and im hoping its not reflective of a majority of this new album. So you can all chill out on your Rihanna defense mode.

You're actually dumb and it's painful to read the **** you write. If Rihanna didn't like the song or feel as if it was **** she wouldn't be releasing it in the first place, she would take a stand if she believed what she was recording wasn't up to her standard.

her raspiness in the 2nd snippet is

Are y'all being paid by her to post these lies? Seriously.

She is yelling straight from her throat. You. are. not. supposed. to. yell. from. your. throat. That's not "raspiness", it's plain dreadful technique and she's either attempting vocals that are beyond her capablities or needs to stop drinking.

OMG ****ING SLAYED. Is this ha VOCAL ERA??