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Fan Base: Archived: Stand Your Ground (#15)
Member Since: 10/30/2010
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Anti is good.
I don't know how it ranks compared to Unapologetic, RR or GGGB but it's better than the first 2, Loud and TTT for sure.
I feel bad for her pop fans. She's definitely over that phase of her career.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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omg Pose 
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Member Since: 2/13/2012
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How come Beyonce couldn't make a song she's featured on go Top 80 on the Hot 100 in 2015?
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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"bubububu BEYST got 85 on metacritic cause of the surpize reeleese GIMMICK   "
lmfao what the **** is the excuse now navy? she not only surprise released it but also for FREE 
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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the navy praying for at least a 70 im choking
her artistic lifework she spent 3 years diligently working on despite waning relevance and yall will be happy with just 70? |
But weren't y'all just saying she does nothing and just sings over material handed to her?
The incoherence of it all
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 8/8/2006
Posts: 42,086
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Originally posted by 2014
I'm honestly starting to think all these people who are praising ANTI, are simply trolling.
Like, there has to be some kind of explanation
Did Jay Z pay them? Are ATRL members part of the Samsung deal? |
Please follow my advice:
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Originally posted by Chemist
REMOVE THE LITTLE MONSTER IN YOU
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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The girl can sing, indeed, and on Anti, all of the focus is on that voice and her appealingly wayward personality, singing about sex, love, drugs, desire and frustration as if her life depends on it. Without all the practised song-craft that usually knock the wind out of listeners, what she has come up with is atmospheric, sexy and strangely disturbed, tapping into the kind of distorted beats and chilled tempos that burble through progressive hip hop.
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Rihanna’s done piano ballads before (Stay, Unfaithful, Take a Bow), but there’s something different about Close To You. Where those songs painted their sadness in fairly obvious colours, the Anti closer is more like a pained shrug than a dramatic denouement. Again it’s incredibly minimal, just some twinkly piano and Rihanna working through some lovely, but suitably subtle, melodies. It’s so delicate that you almost don’t realise how pretty it is on first listen, but slowly the hooks reveal themselves. Actually, that’s probably true of the whole album
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The Guardian
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Member Since: 2/13/2012
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Anti is still getting high 70s 
3 iffy reviews right out the gate makes it look worse than it's going to be.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by Jennifer
Anti is good.
I don't know how it ranks compared to Unapologetic, RR or GGGB but it's better than the first 2, Loud and TTT for sure.
I feel bad for her pop fans. She's definitely over that phase of her career.
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Anti has pop songs on it, just not uptempo ones.
Pose is life
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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The launch of Rihanna’s eighth studio album was so obviously, resoundingly botched that you kept imaging her mentor Jay Z running around the offices of his streaming service Tidal shouting, “Don’t panic! Don’t panic!” like Clive Dunn in Dad’s Army. After months of careful preparation, involving a mobile-only website that transmitted cryptic messages and the unveiling of the artwork in an LA gallery, Anti mistakenly appeared on Tidal on Wednesday afternoon, was promptly bootlegged, then hastily shunted out as a free download.
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The sense that Rihanna might have developed a case of the “Serious Artists” is compounded by the artwork, which comes complete with an excruciating little poem, written in braille so that the visually impaired can be mortified by it as well. “I sometimes fear that I am misunderstood,” it opens, before suggesting that “what I chose to say is of so much substance that people won’t understand the depth of my message”, which is certainly one way of interpreting her oeuvre to date, including Cheers (Drink to That), S&M and, indeed, Cockiness (Love It). “She may be the queen of hearts, but I’m gonna be the queen of your body parts,” she sang on the latter, demonstrating her unfathomable depth.
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the panning
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Member Since: 12/27/2011
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I love that it was such a joke to y'all for us to rave about Gags winning a Golden Globe and being the most talk-about person at the event but y'all over here are being like "she got best new track at Pichtfork!!!"
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Everyone & their mother seeing right through her gimmick
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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its free and they could only manage 1m?
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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The Guardian giving her a cover
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How Rihanna rewrote the rules of pop
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The haters truly never win
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Member Since: 7/9/2010
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Are free downloads supposed to be something impressive? Regardless if 1 million or 20 million?
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Member Since: 2/13/2012
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Good thing Anti is not half as bad as Artpop.
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
Posts: 24,463
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Originally posted by 2014
I'm honestly starting to think all these people who are praising ANTI, are simply trolling.
Like, there has to be some kind of explanation
Did Jay Z pay them? Are ATRL members part of the Samsung deal? |
Are you paid to praise Nick Jonas's music? There's your answer.
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Banned
Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Artemisia
its free and they could only manage 1m?
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MTE 
mess at her bragging about it on twitter 
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 8/8/2006
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Naw
It was streamed 13M times via Tidal and it was bought 1M by Samsung
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