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Originally posted by Arking
I absolutely loved Rated R, but it made sense for her at the time given what she went through. Does she even have another "Rated R" in her right now? She seems to be enjoying herself and her career, I don'tknow where she'd pull any sort of darkness from. Unless y'all meant on a sonic level with the darker beats and guitar elements- but I feel that's a sound she's carried over (more or less) in her recent work and live shows.
Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
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I mean not every person needs one single incident or anything to have a dark album. People don't question why Gaga went dark and serious and as far as we know there was never any singular event that made it happen. I'm sure Rihanna, like everyone else, has their dark sides/feeling and her own insecurities. She recently revealled that she's only been in love once and that she doesn't let anyone else in because of her own insecurities and failing with her first love(obv Chris Brown). It's clear she still cares about Chris Brown as a person. There are many other things she could draw upon. Even before the Chris Brown incident she was heading towards the dark direction. Look at Disturbia and Rehab, she confirmed in interviews prior to that incident that her next album would be darker and more rock.
I don't want a literal RR pt. 2 if that's what people are thinking. I would be here for another conceptually coherrent album that is dark, edgy and introspective like RR was but I'd want a modern, different sound. I think RR was her 2nd best album. I think as an album GGGB is the only album where I can listen to every song without hitting skip and it all follows the concept of a GGGB. I love RR but it has more filler and some concepts were a bit half baked. I love FB, WYT, CCL, Rude Boy and the Last Song but some songs like Photographs and Stupid in Love were pretty bad. LOUD was more of a collection of songs. A lot of them were too basic for me(Only Girl, Fading, S&M, Complicated, Skin) but WMN, MD and LTWYL pt. 2 are some of her best songs in her discography, imo. TTT was a half baked album. WFL, WHYB, Cockiness, and Birthday Cake were good but everything else was meh. I also like We All Want Love and Farewell but I know fans don't like them.