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Music News: Rihanna - Rated R tracklisting
Member Since: 4/6/2007
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So it's gonna be an ok album...
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Member Since: 11/5/2009
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Originally posted by inspiration4
you should make a new thread for this
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Eh, I think it should stay here as its only discussing the tracklisting and not really groundbreaking release/information; just a mini-review of the songs by a poster who has heard it.
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Member Since: 12/12/2004
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what the hell kinda review was that? they're basically just reciting lyrics ..
fire bomb sounds like shut up & drive so far
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Member Since: 10/13/2008
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OMG
Everything sounds amazing, except for the last song.
Riri why you gotta slay everyone?
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Member Since: 1/9/2009
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Everything sounds hot except for "The Last Song".
I can't wait to hear G4L.
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Member Since: 10/10/2009
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Originally posted by Delicious
what the hell kinda review was that? they're basically just reciting lyrics ..
fire bomb sounds like shut up & drive so far
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after i read it the first time i thought i was loosing my mind because i couldnt remember what songs were "the hot ones"... then i read it again and realized they didn't say **** lol !
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
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I'm not sure how to take the review, yet.
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Member Since: 10/28/2008
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The review looks like a rushed homework of an intern based on the actual reviewers' key notes written on a tissue.
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
So it's gonna be an ok album...
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That's not possible. We've heard 4 tracks, and all of them are
Should we even consider that a review anyway?
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Member Since: 4/12/2007
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
So it's gonna be an ok album...
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:-/ Yeah, this album isn't shaping up to be the album I thought it was going to be.
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Member Since: 2/9/2008
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Originally posted by bobbymfw
:-/ Yeah, this album isn't shaping up to be the album I thought it was going to be.
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I feel the same way unfortunately...
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Member Since: 5/21/2009
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I'm actually loving the way this is going. "Wait Your Turn" is a bit higher than average to me, but "Hard" and "Russian Roulette" are ****ing awesome.
Only thing I'm dissapointed about is "Mad House". I wanted that to be some cooky and crazy song. Sucks when the title that draws you in the most turns out not to be an actual song.
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Member Since: 6/28/2009
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I actually think this is going to be her best album yet.
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Most creative, but "BEST"...IMO no
I think I, along with a few others, think it's gonna be hard to top GGGB. Rated R is just shaping up to be a dark and, for lack of a better word, "hard" album and I love darkness and hardness just like the others, but coming from "Umbrella", "Take a Bow", and "Don't Stop the Music" it's gonna be hard to shift Rihanna's image from urban pop to dark urban...Just seems forced
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Member Since: 9/29/2008
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Originally posted by hooligan87
Most creative, but "BEST"...IMO no
I think I, along with a few others, think it's gonna be hard to top GGGB. Rated R is just shaping up to be a dark and, for lack of a better word, "hard" album and I love darkness and hardness just like the others, but coming from "Umbrella", "Take a Bow", and "Don't Stop the Music" it's gonna be hard to shift Rihanna's image from urban pop to dark urban...Just seems forced
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This is not as dark as some people are assuming. Edgy yes, but dark not really at least that is the impression I got from people who have actually heard the album.
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Billboard Review:
After the "Mad House" intro, "Rated R" takes off with the leaked tracks "Wait Your Turn" and the Jeezy-assisted "Hard," both which feature Rihanna singing tough girl lyrics like, "I'm such a ****ing lady" in her Island twang and "the hottest bitch in heels right here" over an epic piano pattern, respectively.
"Stupid In Love" follows. The heartfelt ballad finds Rihanna belting, "I still love you, but I just can't do this / I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid... you don't know what you lost, and you won't realize it till I'm gone / that I'm the one," atop a pulsating beat.
Next up is the bass-heavy, electric-guitar-laden "Rock Star," which features former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. Rihanna revels in her bad girl rebellion, crooning, "Got my middle finger up / I don't really give a ****."
The album's first single, the gritty track "Russian Roulette," follows. "Firebomb" ends with a siren blaring while "Rudeboy" finds her singing about having a sexual rendezvous with her love interest over kick drums.
The will.i.am duet, "Photographs," is one of the album's stand-out tracks, as Rihanna laments over a lost relationship. "I don't want to be stuck in the past but you're all that I had / why couldn't you be the one," she questions over static drums.
Rihanna taps into her bad girl antics on "G4L" (the acronym is short for "Gangster For Life") once again, as she flirtatiously warns, "any motherf--kers want to disrespect / we don't play that ****," over double speed drums. Meanwhile, "Te Amo" caters to Rihanna's international fanbase with its flamenco guitars and handclaps.
The album ends with the bonus track, "The Last Song," but not before the outstanding closer "Cold Case Love," with its escalating production infused with a simple piano pattern, thumping bassline, violin strings and ultimately, electric guitar licks.
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Member Since: 10/10/2009
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Originally posted by rihannar0x8
Billboard Review:
After the "Mad House" intro, "Rated R" takes off with the leaked tracks "Wait Your Turn" and the Jeezy-assisted "Hard," both which feature Rihanna singing tough girl lyrics like, "I'm such a ****ing lady" in her Island twang and "the hottest bitch in heels right here" over an epic piano pattern, respectively.
"Stupid In Love" follows. The heartfelt ballad finds Rihanna belting, "I still love you, but I just can't do this / I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid... you don't know what you lost, and you won't realize it till I'm gone / that I'm the one," atop a pulsating beat.
Next up is the bass-heavy, electric-guitar-laden "Rock Star," which features former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. Rihanna revels in her bad girl rebellion, crooning, "Got my middle finger up / I don't really give a ****."
The album's first single, the gritty track "Russian Roulette," follows. "Firebomb" ends with a siren blaring while "Rudeboy" finds her singing about having a sexual rendezvous with her love interest over kick drums.
The will.i.am duet, "Photographs," is one of the album's stand-out tracks, as Rihanna laments over a lost relationship. "I don't want to be stuck in the past but you're all that I had / why couldn't you be the one," she questions over static drums.
Rihanna taps into her bad girl antics on "G4L" (the acronym is short for "Gangster For Life") once again, as she flirtatiously warns, "any motherf--kers want to disrespect / we don't play that ****," over double speed drums. Meanwhile, "Te Amo" caters to Rihanna's international fanbase with its flamenco guitars and handclaps.
The album ends with the bonus track, "The Last Song," but not before the outstanding closer "Cold Case Love," with its escalating production infused with a simple piano pattern, thumping bassline, violin strings and ultimately, electric guitar licks.
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WhAT THE **** is UP with the REVIEWS NOT SAYING ANYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Member Since: 11/5/2009
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Is cursing allowed on this board? ...atleast censor the word.
Anyway, I AGREE. Seriously?! They're not even bashing the songs...
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Member Since: 3/27/2009
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Originally posted by anastayjah
This is not as dark as some people are assuming. Edgy yes, but dark not really at least that is the impression I got from people who have actually heard the album.
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oh I don't mean dark like satanic, I never really got that comparision. Lyrically though, RR is a rather dark topic. It just takes on a dark tone, but the video to "TWIO" is just literally dark. I'm just not getting the overly-urban-fied Rihanna
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