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Celeb News: 'Talk That Talk' reviews
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This is going to have worse reviews than Loud
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Originally posted by Keir's bitch
This is going to have worse reviews than Loud
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Well LOUD is the better album...
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Originally posted by DG1
Well LOUD is the better album...
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Loud has CKB and Fading so you're lying
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Originally posted by DG1
Well LOUD is the better album...
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That's not what you said when it leaked, interesting I must say 
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Originally posted by Keir's bitch
Loud has CKB and Fading so you're lying
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And LOUD has the EPIC "What's My Name" And CKB is no filler, it's much better than most, if not all ballads on TTT...
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Originally posted by Peep Show
That's not what you said when it leaked, interesting I must say |
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Originally posted by DG1
It's not her best album, LOUD & Rated R are easily superior to this.
And CKB>>>>>>>>>>>>Farewell!!!!!
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This is what I said when it leaked
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Originally posted by DG1
And LOUD has the EPIC "What's My Name" And CKB is no filler, it's much better than most, if not all ballads on TTT...
This is what I said when it leaked |
I guess I mixed it up with another Beyonce stan, but dead sis do you really think CKB is better than Farewell? 
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I guess I mixed it up with another Beyonce stan, but dead sis do you really think CKB is better than Farewell? |
Yes, I'm 100% sure about that... CKB is probably her best ballad.
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Originally posted by DG1
Yes, I'm 100% sure about that... CKB is probably her best ballad.
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Its score right now is a 61. 
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Originally posted by RîhMark
Its score right now is a 61. |
To get an idea of what the real score will be you can add or minus about 3/4 pts to it... So it can be anywhere from 58-65 right now. It's on a scale and some reviewers have more importance than others.
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Although I think TTT is better than Loud, I have no problem with the current score. Loud was overrated. A 67 was too high for that mess.
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Originally posted by DG1
Well LOUD is the better album...
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No.
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BBC MUSIC (UK) - "TALK THAT TALK" REVIEW:
Drearily sexual lyricism over showy but shallow production dominates RiRi’s sixth LP.
By: Mike Diver 2011-11-21
An artist experiencing diminishing returns since 2009’s startling reinvention album Rated R – from victim to victorious in one long-player – Rihanna’s latest can’t stop the rot that set in with the mixed messages of 2010’s Loud. Not that said set was poor – it just failed to match the pop highs of the Umbrella-packing Good Girl Gone Bad and Rated R’s darker tones. The tracks of sixth LP Talk That Talk make a lot of noise but move lethargically – familiar tropes surface in the lyrical content (sexy times being the core focus), and musically it’s a smorgasbord of European dance trends and contemporary RnB production, showy but soulless. Of course there are ballads, too – but after all the saucy front, the slowies feel utterly blunted.
The album begins at a low, the staccato vocal hooks of You Da One irritating rather than engaging. The squelchy, buzzing Where Have You Been is one of two productions from Calvin Harris – indicative of the mainstream dance scene of the UK and Europe making steady progression into the US RnB market. It’s an inoffensive pairing of building beats and sliced-and-diced vocals: to the right feet on the right dancefloor it’ll be manna itself manifested as an arms-in-the-air clubbing highlight. The second Harris hook-up, We Found Love, swells with fevered keys until it explodes, blinding neon like, all over its frenetic, repetitive chorus. It’s by-numbers fare from Harris, given edge by a quite deliberately provocative music video – just the 47 million YouTube views since mid-October.
A forgettable vocal from Jay-Z on the title-track foreshadows an awful exercise in quasi-erotic wordplay on Cockiness (Love It) and a wholly pointless minute-something in the company of star producer The-Dream, wasted on the boring profanities of Birthday Cake. At its halfway mark Talk That Talk takes a turn for the downbeat, the Beyoncé-style paean to perfect monogamy We All Want Love sitting awkwardly beside questionable sexual morals presented by earlier cuts. And Drunk on Love, for the second time in as many weeks release-wise after Rihanna’s guest slot on Drake’s Take Care, matches the Barbadian singer with a Jamie xx (Smith) production, the backing a slightly tweaked take on The xx’s Intro. It feels lazy, an impression that runs the course of this collection, which never convinces the listener that the artist on its cover is fully committed to the cause. On the commercial dubstep rumble of bonus track Red Lipstick, produced by Chase & Status, she sounds as if she phoned in her (again, drearily sexual) vocal five minutes after waking up.
In the recent past Rihanna exhibited a cool nonchalance; here, she’s trapped between playing the characters of a ruthless dominatrix and a docile sort willing to be putty in a boy’s hands. If the real Rihanna doesn’t stand up for her seventh LP, one has to wonder if she’ll ever find herself again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fzq4
Counts for MetaCritic, no rating, but this will be a mixed to negative score...
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1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 4. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (UK)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 6. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (NORWAY)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 8. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (IRELAND)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 15. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (FRANCE)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 19. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (BELGIUM)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 24. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (NEW ZEALAND)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 28. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (CANADA)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 30. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (US)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 39. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (SWEDEN)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 53. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (NETHERLANDS)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 59. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (SPAIN)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna (DENMARK)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna (FINLAND)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna (GREECE)
2. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 10. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (LUXEMBOURG)
2. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 12. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (SWIZTERLAND)
2. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 26. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (GERMANY)
2. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 33. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (AUSTRIA)
3. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 200. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (MEXICO)
4. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 67. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (ITALY)
5. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 31. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (AUSTRALIA)
9. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna (PORTUGAL)
THIS is what people say to the critics...............
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This is her best album since "A Girl Like Me" !!!!!!
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I honestly don't think the album is that good. It's better than Loud but Loud was very basic for me bar cheers and only girl.
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Originally posted by -Derek
This is her best album since "A Girl Like Me" !!!!!!
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Talk That Talk > Loud
We Found Love > Only Girl
who cares what the critics say?
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Originally posted by zzmyth
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 4. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (UK)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 6. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (NORWAY)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 8. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (IRELAND)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 15. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (FRANCE)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 19. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (BELGIUM)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 24. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (NEW ZEALAND)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 28. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (CANADA)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 30. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (US)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 39. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (SWEDEN)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 53. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (NETHERLANDS)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 59. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (SPAIN)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna (DENMARK)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna (FINLAND)
1. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna (GREECE)
2. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 10. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (LUXEMBOURG)
2. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 12. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (SWIZTERLAND)
2. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 26. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (GERMANY)
2. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 33. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (AUSTRIA)
3. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 200. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (MEXICO)
4. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 67. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (ITALY)
5. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna & 31. Talk That Talk - Rihanna (AUSTRALIA)
9. Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) - Rihanna (PORTUGAL)
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But this is a review thread.
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TIME: Rihanna has a new album. You're going to be hearing these songs the entire winter.
Positive review
Rihanna is on a roll. One year after releasing Loud, the album that gave us the Grammy award-winning “Only Girl (In the World)” — as well as “What’s My Name?” “S&M” and “Man Down” — the Barbadian pop music vixen is already back with another full length effort, Talk That Talk. You should familiarize yourself with these songs right now because you’re going to be hearing them all winter.
Recently, Rihanna has been moving away from dance pop towards electronic/dubstep music, and Talk That Talk offers up several tracks that don’t require any remixing to make them dance floor ready. Like “We Found Love,” the album’s first single (and number one Billboard hit) and “Cockiness (Love it),” a filthy little track (“Suck my cockiness, like my persuasion” Rihanna demands in the chorus) that repeats a vocal sample so fast that it actually becomes the basis for the beat.
Then there’s the album’s title track, a spirited hip-hop song with a pop hook that reunites Rihanna and Jay-Z (the two appeared on her 2007 hit, “Umbrella”). Hova delivers ambling verses laced with double entendres and funny quips, including the very bizarre sexual reference, “ had it by her bladder, she’s like ‘Oh I gotta pee!’”On first listen, the line will make you pause — “Did Jay-Z just rap about going the bathroom?” — but actually, it’s just indicative of how much fun he appears to be having. You can almost hear him laughing as he says it. Elsewhere in the song he tells us he’s “flying out to Pisa just to get some pizza,” a line that sounds like something the Beastie Boys, not Jay-Z, would write.
There are a few exceptions to Talk That Talk’s dancehall sound: “Watch and Learn” leaves the Euro club scene in favor of a reggae-influenced drum beat while “Farewell” is the obligatory torch ballad that every female pop singer is required to include on an album these days. Most of Talk’s 11 tracks deal with love (or some lusty form of it, anyway). There’s “We Found Love,” as well as “We All Want Love,” “Drunk on Love” and the slightly less direct, “You Da One” and “Roc Me Out,” (which includes the lyric, “I’ll let you in on a dirty little secret, I just want to be loved”).
But Rihanna’s love is an obsessive sort. She doesn’t want to be your soulmate the way Beyoncé does. She doesn’t feel all giddy inside the way Katy Perry claims you make her feel. Instead, Rihanna equates love to feelings of drunkenness and uncontrollable addiction — the stuff of tragedy. She’s more akin to Lady Gaga in that sense. But there’s one big difference: Gaga seeks out emotional destruction while Rihanna seems to stumble into it.
It’s difficult to write about this without mentioning Rihanna’s ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown. For the past three years, every song she’s put out has been assessed in relation to her harrowing 2009 assault by Brown. I worry that by repeatedly mentioning the incident, we make it harder for her to publicly move on. But Brown’s assault was truly vicious and it’s something that the singer seems to be working through in her songs. Rihanna’s first two albums after the assault, 2009’s Rated R and last year’s Loud, both contained darker, angrier songs such as “Rude Boy” and “Man Down,” in which she confesses to killing a man who assaulted her. (And don’t forget her domestic violence duet with Eminem, “Love the Way You Lie”). So I’m happy to report that Talk That Talk is much more lighthearted than her previous efforts. It’s not completely carefree — have you [i]seen the video for “We Found Love?” — but at least she doesn’t sing about murdering anyone, anymore. And in fact, “We All Want Love” is offers a glimpse of true romantic optimism. Rihanna still doesn’t trust many people, but at least she’s opening herself up again to the possibility.
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I'm not sure if you have noticed this, but Talk That Talk sounds more like a following EP to Loud. It's more like a ReLouded tittle name. I don't know but it has the same vibe!
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