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Celeb News: 'Talk That Talk' reviews
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Either way, Talk That Talk is pretty easily the worst Rihanna album yet, though I wouldn't be surprised to see her break that record next November.
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The reviews.
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Well, I'd rather take that from Slant than the ones they gave Teenage Dream and Animal.
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6 sentences about album and the rest of review based on her career,vocals compared to divas,shade and more shade.I mean...
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6 sentences about album and the rest of review based on her career,vocals compared to divas,shade and more shade.I mean...
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I think the critics are getting sick of her and the fact she releases an album every year
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6 sentences about album and the rest of review based on her career,vocals compared to divas,shade and more shade.I mean...
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What do you expect? There really isn't THAT much to say about an album like TTT
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For such a harsh review, 50/100 isn't that bad.
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The succeeding portions of the album are mostly notable for how desperately they try to one-up each other at raunchy, instructional sex talk.
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That Slant review.
I mostly agree with it, but the positive thing they said about Rihanna is indeed true: she gets a lot of amazing, edgier material.
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why do people exaggerate the one or two bad reviews and ignore all the 4/5 star and A reviews??
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Bad review here: http://www.differentscene.co.uk/?p=4276
For an album with a running time of just over half an hour, it’s quite remarkable that “Talk That Talk” manages to somehow outstay its welcome by a good 20 minutes. And yet in that short time, Rihanna manages to cram in a couple of the best pop singles you’ll hear all year, a few bog-standard bump’n’grind fillers and smack dab in the middle of them all, a candidate for the worst song that has ever been recorded by any artist in the history of recorded music...ever. But more on that later.
Things get off to a rather pedestrian start with “You Da One”, as simple and repetitive a song as you’re likely to hear outside of a pre-schoolers’ playground. You know the kind of thing. A nursery rhyme level tune and generic lyrics. It’s this kind of overly-simplistic song that typifies Rihanna’s oeuvre. Many great pop songs rely on melodic repetition and deceptively melodies, but Rihanna’s writers rarely seem capable of elevating this formula beyond the humdrum. Yes, it’s undeniably catchy, but in a good way? No. And yet “You Da One” is already shaping up to be another huge hit, so perhaps the writers deem it unnecessary to sweat over such trifles as musical sophistication, with so many punters clearly eager to embrace the material. Far better are the two Calvin Harris-produced songs that follow. The first of these “Where Have You Been”, a guaranteed future smash, sees Harris bringing his A-game for Rihanna. Stabbing synths, stuttering beats and even a delicate touch of flamenco guitar all build to a truly thunderous, anthemic chorus which will doubtless blow the roof off of nightclubs all over the globe upon its inevitable release. The recent transatlantic #1 smash “We Found Love” sticks to a similar formula to equally sensational effect. Somewhere out there, a certain Australian pop princess must be weeping tears of botox, for Harris’s work here is in a different stratosphere to the anaemic ditties he provided her with on her last two albums.
From there however, the quality of the material on offer here nosedives and the album never quite manages to recover. On the title track, a phoned-in Jay-Z rap can’t help to disguise a flaccid, monotonous tune. What follows however, is breathtaking...for all the wrong reasons. Who could have known that a song recorded by the relatively inoffensive young Barbadian singer could so boldly...so completely, stake its claim amongst the most misguided, cringe worthy, staggeringly awful pieces of music ever committed to record. Truly, nothing can prepare you for such lyrical profundity as “Suck my cockiness/Lick my persuasion/Eat my poison/And swallow your pride down”. Set to a largely tuneless backing, she repeats(many, many times) “I love it/I love it/I love it when you eat it”. It remains genuinely baffling why a 23 year old woman would choose to record a track with lyrics that the average 12 year old schoolboy would consider immature. Another clubfooted attempt at a sexually charged track follows, in the form of “Birthday Cake”, replete with yet more clumsy sexual metaphors. Mercifully, this one clocks in at a still-too-long 1 minute 18 seconds. Perhaps the producer momentarily came to his senses and hit the fade button before his gag reflex was overwhelmed. We’ll never know...or care. That double whammy of grotesque shag-pop over, the album proceeds colourlessly with the bland ballad “Drunk On Love” which fails to engage. Only “Roc Me Out”, sounding as it does like a “Rated R”(still her best album) leftover, somewhat redeems things. Alas, it’s a case of “too little, too late”.
Make no mistake, this album will rack up millions of sales, but it’s hard not to detect the whiff of “Oh this will do” on much of the material that has ended up on this rushed affair. In an increasingly overcrowded pop marketplace, Def Jam clearly doesn’t feel confident enough to let a year go by without a new offering from their young star, for fear that she’ll be replaced in the public’s affections by another ingénue. Let’s hope that next time however, they provide her with material strong enough to fill more than 10 minutes of her album.
2 out of 5
Download: We Found Love, Where Have You Been
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waiT
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Either way, Talk That Talk is pretty easily the worst Rihanna album yet, though I wouldn't be surprised to see her break that record next November.
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Now tell me how's my opinion a joke too,compared to this.A prime example.Old bitter biased grandpa.
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What do you expect? There really isn't THAT much to say about an album like TTT
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That's your opinion, and I feel exactly the same about Born This Way.
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Either way, Talk That Talk is pretty easily the worst Rihanna album yet, though I wouldn't be surprised to see her break that record next November.
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It's hard to imagine anything else on Talk That Talk matching the success of "We Found Love," but, then again, she's taken worse material to the Top 10.
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"Where Have You Been," a boring, dubstep-normalizing dance number
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Finally someone else called this song boring.
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Originally posted by ChrisX
Well, I'd rather take that from Slant than the ones they gave Teenage Dream and Animal.
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The remainder of Teenage Dream is a raunchy pop nightmare, with A-list producers lining up to churn out some of the worst work of their careers.
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You're right I didn't know they hated so much the pop tards
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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
That's your opinion, and I feel exactly the same about Born This Way.
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Take heart, I doubt TTT will have to contend with a ridiculous 0 grade from some reviewer off on a random tangent.
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Originally posted by Riverwide
Bad review here: http://www.differentscene.co.uk/?p=4276
For an album with a running time of just over half an hour, it’s quite remarkable that “Talk That Talk” manages to somehow outstay its welcome by a good 20 minutes. And yet in that short time, Rihanna manages to cram in a couple of the best pop singles you’ll hear all year, a few bog-standard bump’n’grind fillers and smack dab in the middle of them all, a candidate for the worst song that has ever been recorded by any artist in the history of recorded music...ever. But more on that later.
Things get off to a rather pedestrian start with “You Da One”, as simple and repetitive a song as you’re likely to hear outside of a pre-schoolers’ playground. You know the kind of thing. A nursery rhyme level tune and generic lyrics. It’s this kind of overly-simplistic song that typifies Rihanna’s oeuvre. Many great pop songs rely on melodic repetition and deceptively melodies, but Rihanna’s writers rarely seem capable of elevating this formula beyond the humdrum. Yes, it’s undeniably catchy, but in a good way? No. And yet “You Da One” is already shaping up to be another huge hit, so perhaps the writers deem it unnecessary to sweat over such trifles as musical sophistication, with so many punters clearly eager to embrace the material. Far better are the two Calvin Harris-produced songs that follow. The first of these “Where Have You Been”, a guaranteed future smash, sees Harris bringing his A-game for Rihanna. Stabbing synths, stuttering beats and even a delicate touch of flamenco guitar all build to a truly thunderous, anthemic chorus which will doubtless blow the roof off of nightclubs all over the globe upon its inevitable release. The recent transatlantic #1 smash “We Found Love” sticks to a similar formula to equally sensational effect. Somewhere out there, a certain Australian pop princess must be weeping tears of botox, for Harris’s work here is in a different stratosphere to the anaemic ditties he provided her with on her last two albums.
From there however, the quality of the material on offer here nosedives and the album never quite manages to recover. On the title track, a phoned-in Jay-Z rap can’t help to disguise a flaccid, monotonous tune. What follows however, is breathtaking...for all the wrong reasons. Who could have known that a song recorded by the relatively inoffensive young Barbadian singer could so boldly...so completely, stake its claim amongst the most misguided, cringe worthy, staggeringly awful pieces of music ever committed to record. Truly, nothing can prepare you for such lyrical profundity as “Suck my cockiness/Lick my persuasion/Eat my poison/And swallow your pride down”. Set to a largely tuneless backing, she repeats(many, many times) “I love it/I love it/I love it when you eat it”. It remains genuinely baffling why a 23 year old woman would choose to record a track with lyrics that the average 12 year old schoolboy would consider immature. Another clubfooted attempt at a sexually charged track follows, in the form of “Birthday Cake”, replete with yet more clumsy sexual metaphors. Mercifully, this one clocks in at a still-too-long 1 minute 18 seconds. Perhaps the producer momentarily came to his senses and hit the fade button before his gag reflex was overwhelmed. We’ll never know...or care. That double whammy of grotesque shag-pop over, the album proceeds colourlessly with the bland ballad “Drunk On Love” which fails to engage. Only “Roc Me Out”, sounding as it does like a “Rated R”(still her best album) leftover, somewhat redeems things. Alas, it’s a case of “too little, too late”.
Make no mistake, this album will rack up millions of sales, but it’s hard not to detect the whiff of “Oh this will do” on much of the material that has ended up on this rushed affair. In an increasingly overcrowded pop marketplace, Def Jam clearly doesn’t feel confident enough to let a year go by without a new offering from their young star, for fear that she’ll be replaced in the public’s affections by another ingénue. Let’s hope that next time however, they provide her with material strong enough to fill more than 10 minutes of her album.
2 out of 5
Download: We Found Love, Where Have You Been
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Doesn't count. Thank god.
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
What do you expect? There really isn't THAT much to say about an album like TTT
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But it has gotten good reviews outside Slant and The Independent
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Originally posted by Chemist
You're right I didn't know they hated so much the pop tards
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They gave BTW 4/5.
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It's her weakest album in years in my opinion.
So. Much. Filler.
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