If I could change the Talk That Talk tracklist, it would be like this:
1-You Da One
2-Where Have You Been
3-We Found Love
4-Do Ya Thang
5-Cockiness
6-Birtday Cake
7-Watch N Learn
8-We All Want Love
9-Drunk On Love
10-Roc Me Out
11-Talk That Talk
12-Red Lipstick
Deluxe Edition:
13- Cockiness Remix feat. A$AP Rocky
14-Answer
15-Farewell
16-We Found Love Random DJ Remix
Rihanna could have never sang The Monster, LTWYL, CKB, or CCL in 2005-2007. She struggled with her songs more then than she does now.
Rihanna's vibrato is more stable, natural sounding and less animal like and more musical. Her head voice is sharper and more developed, and she actually doesn't rely on pure falsetto like she did in the past (She never could've hit a D6 like in The Monster in 2005).
It's not an achievement but it is a testament to how far she's come which was what my post was about to begin with.
There's no argument but you stay quoting me and disagreeing with anything I've said about Rihanna tho.
I think with Def Jam Rih was forced to do regular check-ins about album progress, how they were going to promote the era, etc.
Now she doesn't have that. For the most part all of the other players are the same (Melissa, Jen, Kuk, her usual producers, etc) so the only difference is who's overlooking the project. This time it's her and she has no deadlines, no incentive to promote (notice she's only done her favorite types of promo aka Grammys and SNL. I feel like iHeart was simply a convenience thing and she really wanted to perform BBHMM), and no reason to use her usual formula. I also think that's a major thing holding up R8. From LOUD to UNA she did her typical 3 pop, 2 urban, 1 reggae-influenced, 2-3 ballads structure. Now she can do whatever she wants. She probably can't make up her mind
Like she's been legit recording since 2012 I feel confident in saying she had no specific plan for what the album would sound like and simply recorded songs she enjoyed she thought she would be done by now but it's hard to make a good album with random ass tracks
This is the only thing that has made sense on here in a long time. Thank you.
What the f*** is this about? It's kinda weird for a photo-shoot.
It might be for a commercial or something.
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I feel really misinformed about the state of development in Cuba. I was surprised to see all of those modern cell phones. I really thought that they were stuck in the 50s and that they were cut off from the entire world. How ignorant of me.
I feel confident in saying she had no specific plan for what the album would sound like and simply recorded songs she enjoyed 
