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Celeb News: 'Talk That Talk' reviews
Member Since: 11/4/2011
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Originally posted by Stepfon
I see reviews don't matter to the Navy anymore. That was not the tune during the Rated R era.
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I knew they would start backtracking and making excuses.
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Member Since: 8/19/2011
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I really expected a 60-70. I'm really appalled.
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Member Since: 9/21/2010
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Originally posted by HausOfA-M
Then why are you in the Mad House?
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Do I have to like a whole album because I like the intro?
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Member Since: 9/21/2010
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Originally posted by Stepfon
I see reviews don't matter to the Navy anymore. That was not the tune during the Rated R era.
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Of course they matter. There a just other things that are more important.
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Member Since: 9/12/2011
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Originally posted by Stepfon
I see reviews don't matter to the Navy anymore. That was not the tune during the Rated R era.
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I'll speak for myself, I don't care for reviews at all, I never have hence why I hardly post in this thread. They won't affect my opinion nor will they affect the sales and I pity all the navy members who will start hating on the album because of the bad reviews.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by elliotis19
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It's the other way around IMO. 
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Member Since: 6/8/2008
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Originally posted by hausofkisuke
I knew they would start backtracking and making excuses.
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The girls always do. I see a lot of hypocrites this week on ATRL from the various stanbases. That Billboard 200 chart thread will be one to watch next week, trust & believe. I like the album so I am wishing Rihanna well but chile...
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Member Since: 11/4/2011
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Originally posted by Stepfon
The girls always do. I see a lot of hypocrites this week on ATRL from the various stanbases. That Billboard 200 chart thread will be one to watch next week, trust & believe. I like the album so I am wishing Rihanna well but chile...
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http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=160096
And it begins.
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Member Since: 6/8/2008
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Originally posted by hausofkisuke
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Is the Navy going to have a lot to be thankful for next week? Only time will tell...
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Member Since: 4/1/2011
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Some of you guys are acting like these reviews are absolutely terrible.
They're not.
Most of the reviews make decent points and she hasn't had any reviews which humiliate TTT.
IMO, TTT is getting the ratings it deserves. The lyrics are weak and the production seems rushed. Although some of the songs are great, the album as a whole is rather unremarkable.
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Member Since: 8/19/2011
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Originally posted by elliotis19
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This is a mixed review. It's more negative towards the end.
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Member Since: 9/13/2011
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Originally posted by Sushi
Some of you guys are acting like these reviews are absolutely terrible.
They're not.
Most of the reviews make decent points and she hasn't had any reviews which humiliate TTT.
IMO, TTT is getting the ratings it deserves. The lyrics are weak and the production seems rushed. The album as a whole is rather unremarkable.
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Member Since: 9/12/2011
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Originally posted by IWasHere
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As someone mentioned before you'd co-sign every negative thing people say about Rihanna, just give it up already we know you dislike her, stop spending your time in this thread and move on.
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Member Since: 8/19/2011
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Damn.
I was expecting 65- 70.
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Member Since: 9/18/2010
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They will NAWT do the best pop album of the year like this 
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Member Since: 3/3/2011
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Originally posted by FAME.
They will NAWT do the best pop album of the year like this
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Born This Way remains unbothered. 
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Member Since: 8/21/2011
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I shall comment on this.
Critics are supposed to know the art of music more than anyone. Their duty is to study every single genre of music, or the type of music they're reviewing, and criticize not only the skills of the artist, but the capability of the artist to push boundaries. A critic should never, NEVER, give any personal review of the material, since the review is to share publicly to show the audience what kind of work the artist is making. So yeah, bad and good reviews shall exist, to make the artist know whether his/her work is, in other words, commercial-attention-seeking-garbage, or its worth all the money spent.
What I see today, is that many reviewers don't care about the artistic background, the references, the thoughts and the message and quality of the song. They just care about the commercial side of it, and that's why we are used to listen to same crap always: we listen to them, and we hail them. We have forgotten that music is art, not only entertainment, and that is more than singing about having sex while drunk on the ceiling without a reason. People should do their homework before judging someone else's work, it's not ours, we didn't create it. Otherwise we are just being basic bitches.
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ATRL Contributor
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
Femme Fatale remains unbothered.
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Agreed
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Member Since: 10/29/2010
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SPIN Magazine - "Talk That Talk" Review
With Aubrey "Drake" Graham ushering in a new era of complicated, emotion-drenched man-swag, it's only natural for Rihanna — the woman he claims once broke his heart — to emerge as his inverse, a tough-skinned, roost-ruling power lover. Stuffing her music with subversive sexuality and straight-up freakiness, she simultaneously puts up a wall, brassily challenges suitors to please her, and assumes they'll fail. On Talk That Talk's "Roc Me Out," she coyly dares a dude to sex her up, but then hits him with the punch line: "I'll let you in on a dirty secret / I just wanna be loved." From another artist, this might be a song about self-doubt. From Rihanna, it's like she's willfully withholding faith and throwing it back just to tantalize. The Jay-Z reference (and collabo!) does not go unnoticed.
The occasionally perfect pop on Talk That Talk softens the concept. Where last year's Loud had a hefty helping of unshakable singles, this album's arc, however simple — sex, love, sex, repeat — is cohesive and sweet. And for someone whose persona is so "bad-girl rock star," Rihanna sure loves techno music. Of all the dubstep-savvy starlets rolling out recently, she was the first by several years (2009's underrated Rated R), and this album doesn't skimp on 4 A.M. synths: "Where Have You Been" is tailor-made for a Coachella pool rave, while "Birthday Cake" and the Bangladesh-produced "Cockiness (Love It)" deliver elated, global-bass super-boom.
Even the requisite tinny StarGate ballad, a grandiose reinterpretation of the xx's "Intro," is doused with lusty passion, analogizing love to liquor. Still, it's alpha-chick sexual power that wins out; as she sings on the lush highlight "Watch and Learn": "If you learn how / I'll stay." It's Rihanna's game and there's very little chance you'll win — but she'd love it if you tried.
RATING: 8/10=80/100
http://www.spin.com/reviews/rihanna-talk-talk-def-jam
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