| |
Music News: Rihanna - Rated R (Album Leaked)
Member Since: 11/18/2008
Posts: 60,607
|
Quote:
Originally posted by ladyroc
Jay smokes Cigar.
Its only for the Grown & Sexy
|
jay-z is sexy?????????????????????????????  :confus ed:
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/28/2009
Posts: 9,353
|
I'm not sure if this has been said, but Rated R is already available on iTunes Nederland.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/6/2008
Posts: 5,795
|
Quote:
Originally posted by superbitch!!
jay-z is sexy????????????????????????????? :confus ed: |
Problem?
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 11/18/2008
Posts: 60,607
|
^  I just don't find him attractive at all!! But there must be something about good about him that we have never seen....
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/29/2008
Posts: 1,246
|
Quote:
Originally posted by £100
I'm not sure if this has been said, but Rated R is already available on iTunes Nederland.
|
The album is already available in some countries. The European relase is Nov. 20 so it's out now over there.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 6/3/2008
Posts: 2,217
|
Rihanna cowrote 9/13 tracks. BWAHAHAH Good Girl! She knows shes amazng
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 12/20/2008
Posts: 19,669
|
Quote:
Originally posted by RnBsupastar09
Rihanna cowrote 9/13 tracks. BWAHAHAH Good Girl! She knows shes amazng
|
Which ones?
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/5/2009
Posts: 1,708
|
Yes Jay-Z is sexy. 
The album has been getting great reviewscritical acclaim. Per Times
Quote:
Rihanna: Rated R
By turns syrupy and strident, part lament, part tooled-up revenge fantasy, this is the best record Rihanna has made
When, in February, pictures sped around the world of the Barbadian singer Rihanna, cheeks and forehead heavily bruised, lips bloodied and swollen after being beaten by Chris Brown, her boyfriend at the time, it was one of those moments when the choreographed posturing of the showbiz machine slips to reveal something far messier and more squalid.
Simulated aggression fills the world of urban music, a world in which the 21-year-old Rihanna, an international star following her huge hit Umbrella, and Brown, an American singer, are major players. But it was never this cowardly. Brown had reportedly pushed Rihanna's head against the window of their rented Lamborghini and punched her repeatedly in the face.
He has since been sentenced to 180 days’ community service and five years’ probation, while a rapt audience await his now ex-girlfriend’s first album since the attack. How would she respond in the studio: with wrath or reflection? The answer, cannily, is both. Rated R is by turns syrupy and strident, part wounded lament, part tooled-up revenge fantasy, with vocals that flit from caustic Caribbean to modulated West Coast. It’s also the best record she’s made.
The split personality is in vogue in R’n’B circles: Beyoncé has cultivated an evil twin called Sasha Fierce, while Rihanna, on her previous album, Good Girl Gone Bad, made a show of abandoning the cookie-cutter image of her early career in favour of a scuzzier persona. And now the cover of Rated R — on which she holds a hand over half of her face, as if to conceal a black eye, but stares defiantly from the other — suggests that she intends to have her cake and eat it. Guns and grenades on one side, tears and picture albums on the other.
First impressions are warlike, with Rihanna drawing on a dark armoury of outside influences. Mad House and Wait Your Turn are drenched in the brooding synths and grumbling basslines of the British dubstep producers Chase & Status, while on Rockstar 101 Rihanna slips into leathers and engages the squalling solos of the Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash. It gets nastier. “I lick the gun when I’m done, ’cos I know that revenge is sweet,” she growls on G4L, before pronouncing herself “ready to roll” and evoking bizarre images of the spiky-haired road warrior played in Mad Max 3 by Tina Turner, another strong woman to suffer at the hands of a significant other.
Yet, in Photographs, a spare, spacey duet with will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas, she trills, “It should have been me and you”, and the spiralling ballad Stupid in Love has her cursing her weakness at taking an abusive man back: “I still love you, I just can’t do this.” It all seems too much in Russian Roulette, which ends with a single gunshot, and Firebomb, which seemingly advocates crashing her car (a Lamborghini?) in a burst of flames.
Ultimately, though, Rihanna is able to locate a midway point between victimhood and oblivion. In Cold Case Love, a slice of jerky melancholia co-written by Justin Timberlake, she calmly intones: “Release me now ’cos I did my time.” And so she has. Its melodrama sharpened with the sting of experience, this cathartic album is the sound of a woman losing control — and then triumphantly regaining it.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle6923199.ece
|
Entertainment Weekly
Quote:
Rihanna may still have her umbrella (ella, ella), but all offers to stand under it are off. If 2007's multiplatinum chart beast Good Girl Gone Bad was her gleaming pop opus, Rated R is a defiant middle finger to all that — a posttraumatic diary built on
furious bravado, rampant profanity, and the bruising fallout from her February assault at the hands of then boyfriend Chris Brown.
Granted, the 21-year-old Barbadian star has spent the last five years shedding successive skins — first emerging as the blithe island princess of her 2005 debut, Music of the Sun, then remolded into the nascent urban Lolita of '06's A Girl Like Me and the increasingly provocative baby diva of Gone Bad. Here, the material is almost obsessively dark and mono-focused, from the not-difficult-to-parse metaphors in shuddering first single ''Russian Roulette'' to the self-lacerating balladry of ''Stupid in Love.''
Throughout, Rihanna dons hip-hop swagger like borrowed armor, leaning heavily on her Caribbean accent and unleashing a string of baddest-b***h boasts via dancehall-riddim'd bangers like ''Hard,'' ''G4L,'' and ''Wait Your Turn.'' But R is also spiked with aggressive guitars, from the Slash-guesting ''Rockstar 101'' to the shamelessly ''Purple Rain''-riffing coda, ''The Last Song.'' A genuine moment of vulnerability plays stunningly on the meticulously layered ''Cold Case Love,'' penned by Justin Timberlake. Still, Rated R rarely delivers Top 40 fodder. Instead, it's a raw, often unsettling portrait of an artist who is, she insists, no longer a Girl at all. B
|
Quote:
No need to beat around the bush: Rated R rocks
Rihanna rises above a rough year with her best album yet
Dave TaggarT
“For those among you who are easily frightened, we suggest you turn away now” — from that brilliant line, one thing is clear about Rihanna’s highly anticipated fourth album: Rated R is not for the faint of heart. As she approaches the follow-up album to 2007’s international success Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna has the world at her fingertips. This is a woman who has had more No. 1 records than any other female artist this decade, who can hold her own next to Jay-Z on stage and who is on covers of high fashion magazines around the world. She also is the victim of one of the most public scandals in recent memory, describing the aftermath with the line, “It was like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears.” Taking that all in, Rihanna has the steep task of turning the media focus back on her life as a performer rather than a tabloid fixture, and on Rated R — arguably, her best album yet — she does exactly that.
Backed by a collection of the best producers and songwriters in the business, Rihanna finds herself leaving the fluffy pop of former hits like “S.O.S.” and “Don’t Stop the Music” mostly in the background, instead opting for a more urban, hip-hop oriented direction. “Wait Your Turn,” produced by U.K. duo Chase & Status, finds Rihanna singing her own praises against a hard-hitting electro beat grounded by a heavy bass line and a soaring chorus. The incessant chant of “The wait is ova!” would sound annoying handled in lesser hands, but here, you’re completely sold by the bravado-filled delivery. Following suit is the second single, “Hard,” which features a guest verse courtesy of rap’s gruffest voice, Young Jeezy. Consider it a sequel to Jay-Z’s own “Run This Town,” and a welcome one at that.
Had the album focused entirely on Rihanna’s seemingly unstoppable confidence and ambition, it could have easily slid into one-note territory. But Rihanna and her team are wise enough to know that a girl moments removed from a complicated, story-filled year needs to pause for a moment of introspection. When she does, the results are equally golden. On the daring lead single, “Russian Roulette,” Rihanna tells the tale of a twisted relationship, and later on “Photographs” — a subtle yet strong Will.I.Am production — she sings of remorse; the only thing left to hold on to are a handful of pictures.
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2009/11...rated-r-rocks/
|
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 10/28/2008
Posts: 22,771
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Brooke-lynn
|
Mad House. 
j/k 
Anyways, FIRE BOMB should be a single! 
|
|
|
|
ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 6/17/2009
Posts: 7,828
|
Quote:
Originally posted by ChrisX
Nooooooo. She's just trying to appear bad ass.
|
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 6/3/2008
Posts: 2,217
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Brooke-lynn
|
mad house
wait your turn
hard
rockstar 101
firebomb
rude boy
g4l
te amo
the last song!!
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 6/3/2008
Posts: 2,217
|
its good to see that the album is getting some good reviews. I love that that article above calls it he best album yet, which i totally agree with
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 10/18/2009
Posts: 18,756
|
this album is such a masterpiece!!!!!!! way better than THE FAME MONSTER! i'm sick of THE FAME MONSTER faster than i expected
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 6/19/2007
Posts: 7,084
|
Quote:
Rihanna: Rated R
By turns syrupy and strident, part lament, part tooled-up revenge fantasy, this is the best record Rihanna has made
|
an answer to those who are saying GGGB is her best album and this album is boring.
RR 
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 11/5/2009
Posts: 5,253
|
Quote:
Originally posted by J@Rv$
an answer to those who are saying GGGB is her best album and this album is boring.
RR |
all a matter of opinion. IMO, this is her most consistent album, therefore, the BEST!
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/13/2009
Posts: 22,181
|
Quote:
Originally posted by arkl
Mad House.
j/k
Anyways, FIRE BOMB should be a single! |
FIRE BOMB>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>the rest!
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/13/2009
Posts: 22,181
|
Rated R has been on my constant rotation. I used to be listening to some Arctic Monkeys, Taylor Swift, Pixie Lott, BEP, GGGB and a lil Brit, GaGa, Adele and The Fray. However, the epic-ness of Rated R has taken me over. I can't stop listening to it. Every song is HUGE!! I used to think that there was something wrong with Rated R compared to GGGB - guess wht? Rated R is so >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GGGB!! In my book, it's a fact! GGGB has great singles but Rated R has huge, in depth, masterpieces!!! Can't stop this tunes! btw, the 3rd single should really be either Photographs, CCL and Fire Bomb. FIRE BOMB=#1...
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 6/12/2008
Posts: 7,308
|
F***ING AMAZON!!!!
I ordered the Album some days ago to get it today and now I have to wait until monday, THAT SUCKS, I should have just bought it in the store 
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/13/2009
Posts: 22,181
|
^ poor thing...enjoy the leaked version first..then, get the CD on 23rd...
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 10/18/2009
Posts: 18,756
|
RATED R is #1 in IRELAND, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, #2 IN Luxembourg Switzerland, Belgium, on ITUNES.I REALLY HOPE SHE WILL BE #1 IN DA STATE CAUSE HER ALBUM DESERVES IT ALOT MORE THAN THE FAME MONSTERRRRRRRRRRRR
|
|
|
|
|
|
