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Celeb News: 'Talk That Talk' reviews
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Originally posted by BadBitch
I don't understand how this is getting so critically panned. It's arguably one of her best albums to date.
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It's not getting critically panned. It's getting mixed reviews.
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Chicago Tribune - "Talk That Talk" Review:
“Talk That Talk” sounds like a rush job designed to keep Rihanna rolling through the holidays.
By: Greg Kot
2 stars (out of 4)
Another year, another Rihanna album. “Talk That Talk” (Def Jam) is the 23-year-old Barbados native’s sixth album in seven years. It caps a year in which she released a series of hit singles from her previous album, the 2010 release “Loud,” staged an arena tour and appeared on tracks by Drake, Coldplay and Nicki Minaj.
Despite her commercial achievements – 20 million worldwide album sales, the youngest artist ever to achieve 10 No. 1 singles – her music is starting to sound thin and predictable. At 37 minutes, “Talk That Talk” is both skimpy in length and content. It’s also her friskiest album yet -- and that’s saying something. In comparison to the dark, disturbing film noir of her excellent 2009 album, “Rated R,” this is a chintzy soft-core **** movie.
Most of the songs turn on double or single entendres involving cake, icing, licking, eating, and doing it “on the bed, on the floor, on the couch.” The album rings up a lot of buzzy, burping electronics, especially on the rave-tastic “Where Have You Been” and “We Found Love.” Familiar Caribbean and Eastern touches from past Rihanna albums get recycled into bombastic dance tunes. The singer at times comes off as a bystander on her own album; she shares a writing credit on only four songs and she lets Jay-Z do all the heavy lifting on the title track.
Amid all the standard-issue booty calls and boisterous synthesizers, a couple of tracks show the kind of progression and depth that typified “Rated R”: the electro-acoustic, No I.D.-produced anthem “We All Want Love” and “Drunk on Love,” in which Rihanna lets a little vulnerability creep in over a haunting break beat from British minimalists the XX. Otherwise, “Talk That Talk” sounds like a rush job designed to keep Rihanna rolling through the holidays.
[email protected]
RATING: 2/4=50/100
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...4041412.column
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Originally posted by Sammi
For me: RR>GGGB>TTT>AGLM>MOTS
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And the critics agree. 
...left out LOUD on purpose? 
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Originally posted by Nicole
It's not getting critically panned. It's getting mixed reviews.
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but isn't 58-63 score for an album bad? Even LOUD had an higher score.
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Originally posted by DG1
Chicago Tribune - "Talk That Talk" Review:
By: Greg Kot
2 stars (out of 4)
Another year, another Rihanna album. “Talk That Talk” (Def Jam) is the 23-year-old Barbados native’s sixth album in seven years. It caps a year in which she released a series of hit singles from her previous album, the 2010 release “Loud,” staged an arena tour and appeared on tracks by Drake, Coldplay and Nicki Minaj.
Despite her commercial achievements – 20 million worldwide album sales, the youngest artist ever to achieve 10 No. 1 singles – her music is starting to sound thin and predictable. At 37 minutes, “Talk That Talk” is both skimpy in length and content. It’s also her friskiest album yet -- and that’s saying something. In comparison to the dark, disturbing film noir of her excellent 2009 album, “Rated R,” this is a chintzy soft-core **** movie.
Most of the songs turn on double or single entendres involving cake, icing, licking, eating, and doing it “on the bed, on the floor, on the couch.” The album rings up a lot of buzzy, burping electronics, especially on the rave-tastic “Where Have You Been” and “We Found Love.” Familiar Caribbean and Eastern touches from past Rihanna albums get recycled into bombastic dance tunes. The singer at times comes off as a bystander on her own album; she shares a writing credit on only four songs and she lets Jay-Z do all the heavy lifting on the title track.
Amid all the standard-issue booty calls and boisterous synthesizers, a couple of tracks show the kind of progression and depth that typified “Rated R”: the electro-acoustic, No I.D.-produced anthem “We All Want Love” and “Drunk on Love,” in which Rihanna lets a little vulnerability creep in over a haunting break beat from British minimalists the XX. Otherwise, “Talk That Talk” sounds like a rush job designed to keep Rihanna rolling through the holidays.
[email protected]
RATING: 2/4=50/100
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...4041412.column
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This will low down the score even more...
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Originally posted by DG1
Chicago Tribune - "Talk That Talk" Review:
“Talk That Talk” sounds like a rush job designed to keep Rihanna rolling through the holidays.
By: Greg Kot
2 stars (out of 4)
Another year, another Rihanna album. “Talk That Talk” (Def Jam) is the 23-year-old Barbados native’s sixth album in seven years. It caps a year in which she released a series of hit singles from her previous album, the 2010 release “Loud,” staged an arena tour and appeared on tracks by Drake, Coldplay and Nicki Minaj.
Despite her commercial achievements – 20 million worldwide album sales, the youngest artist ever to achieve 10 No. 1 singles – her music is starting to sound thin and predictable. At 37 minutes, “Talk That Talk” is both skimpy in length and content. It’s also her friskiest album yet -- and that’s saying something. In comparison to the dark, disturbing film noir of her excellent 2009 album, “Rated R,” this is a chintzy soft-core **** movie.
Most of the songs turn on double or single entendres involving cake, icing, licking, eating, and doing it “on the bed, on the floor, on the couch.” The album rings up a lot of buzzy, burping electronics, especially on the rave-tastic “Where Have You Been” and “We Found Love.” Familiar Caribbean and Eastern touches from past Rihanna albums get recycled into bombastic dance tunes. The singer at times comes off as a bystander on her own album; she shares a writing credit on only four songs and she lets Jay-Z do all the heavy lifting on the title track.
Amid all the standard-issue booty calls and boisterous synthesizers, a couple of tracks show the kind of progression and depth that typified “Rated R”: the electro-acoustic, No I.D.-produced anthem “We All Want Love” and “Drunk on Love,” in which Rihanna lets a little vulnerability creep in over a haunting break beat from British minimalists the XX. Otherwise, “Talk That Talk” sounds like a rush job designed to keep Rihanna rolling through the holidays.
[email protected]
RATING: 2/4=50/100
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...4041412.column
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Originally posted by BadBitch
but isn't 58-63 score for an album bad? Even LOUD had an higher score.
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Loud had a pretty good score. It's not like Loud is any more of a bad album than TTT.
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Why does Rolling Stone give such brief reviews of albums, and yet it probably holds the most weight, and is the most credible, out of all the others?
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
Hmm. I expected 65-75.
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Originally posted by Lux.
Why does Rolling Stone give such brief reviews of albums, and yet it probably holds the most weight, and is the most credible, out of all the others? |
Pitchfork>Rolling Stone
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Originally posted by Lux.
And the critics agree.
...left out LOUD on purpose? |
No I forgot it like seriously  ,well that speaks for itself.
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Originally posted by DG1
Pitchfork>Rolling Stone
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Originally posted by DG1
Chicago Tribune - "Talk That Talk" Review:
“Talk That Talk” sounds like a rush job designed to keep Rihanna rolling through the holidays.
By: Greg Kot
2 stars (out of 4)
Another year, another Rihanna album. “Talk That Talk” (Def Jam) is the 23-year-old Barbados native’s sixth album in seven years. It caps a year in which she released a series of hit singles from her previous album, the 2010 release “Loud,” staged an arena tour and appeared on tracks by Drake, Coldplay and Nicki Minaj.
Despite her commercial achievements – 20 million worldwide album sales, the youngest artist ever to achieve 10 No. 1 singles – her music is starting to sound thin and predictable. At 37 minutes, “Talk That Talk” is both skimpy in length and content. It’s also her friskiest album yet -- and that’s saying something. In comparison to the dark, disturbing film noir of her excellent 2009 album, “Rated R,” this is a chintzy soft-core **** movie.
Most of the songs turn on double or single entendres involving cake, icing, licking, eating, and doing it “on the bed, on the floor, on the couch.” The album rings up a lot of buzzy, burping electronics, especially on the rave-tastic “Where Have You Been” and “We Found Love.” Familiar Caribbean and Eastern touches from past Rihanna albums get recycled into bombastic dance tunes. The singer at times comes off as a bystander on her own album; she shares a writing credit on only four songs and she lets Jay-Z do all the heavy lifting on the title track.
Amid all the standard-issue booty calls and boisterous synthesizers, a couple of tracks show the kind of progression and depth that typified “Rated R”: the electro-acoustic, No I.D.-produced anthem “We All Want Love” and “Drunk on Love,” in which Rihanna lets a little vulnerability creep in over a haunting break beat from British minimalists the XX. Otherwise, “Talk That Talk” sounds like a rush job designed to keep Rihanna rolling through the holidays.
[email protected]
RATING: 2/4=50/100
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...4041412.column
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TTT isnt my favorite Rihanna album but I was expecting a high 60s score. The major pop star albums released this year received pretty good critical acclaim(Femme Fatale 67, Born This Way 71, 4 getting a 73)
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
Loud had a pretty good score. It's not like Loud is any more of a bad album than TTT.
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TTT is amazing (give or take a few songs). LOUD is just horrible. It's filled with generic reject songs or worse verisons of songs she's already done in the past. TTT is more cohesive. I blame Dr. Luke for this mess.
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I don't know that Pitchfork is the most credible of all reviewers...they posted a picture of a monkey peeing as one of their "reviews" of an album. They are the most highly read and popular reviewer that Metacritic includes, though. Rolling Stone is among the top 5.
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Originally posted by DG1
Pitchfork>Rolling Stone
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Yeah, that's true. Although, Pitchfork arn't going to bother reviewing this album, just like BTW. 
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Originally posted by Wilkes
There's the problem.
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LOUD was worse and it got an higher score. 
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Member Since: 3/3/2011
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Originally posted by BadBitch
TTT is amazing (give or take a few songs). LOUD is just horrible. It's filled with generic reject songs or worse verisons of songs she's already done in the past. TTT is more cohesive.
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An album where half the songs are about cheap, dirty sex and the other half are about her being intoxicated by true love is meh. If anyone tries to make an argument for it, I'm sure it'll be Pitchfork, though.
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I blame Dr. Luke for this mess.
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Why don't you blame her and her label for being so desperate for hits that they felt the need to bring in yet another colossal producer (and quite frankly, the best there is in pop music).
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
I don't know that Pitchfork is the most credible of all reviewers...they posted a picture of a monkey peeing as one of their "reviews" of an album. They are the most highly read and popular reviewer that Metacritic includes, though. Rolling Stone is among the top 5.
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I thought that RS was the most popular, I'm sure it is.
I prefer Pitchfork, Slant, Popmatters and Spin but...
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Originally posted by Wilkes
I thought that RS was the most popular, I'm sure it is.
I prefer Pitchfork, Slant, Popmatters and Spin but...
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Metacritic ranks their most popular reviewers, and Pitchfork is #1. I don't know what metric they use to rank them. Clickthroughs, perhaps?
1. Pitchfork
2. Entertainment Weekly
3. Q Magazine
4. The A.V. Club
5. Uncut
6. Rolling Stone
12. NME
13. Spin
21. Slant
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