- Shotgun feat. J. Cole (obviously excluded from ANTI, maybe now part of his album, its a midtempo so it could still fit into his own material and album. His last album did not included ANY features and was pretty successful though.)
- Pray 4 Me feat. Big Sean (from the 2014 R8 sessions, he is releasing in Q1 2017, went on tour with her this summer so they could have talked about it)
- Rih being on Drakes new album "More Life" (they recorded new music this summer and I remember some insider on twitter heard one of those songs)
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Would love for the J.Cole collab to get released. He's a good rapper
& I do think another Rih x Drake song is coming or will get leaked if he doesn't use it (too many ppl claim they heard more songs than just Work/Too Good)
I don't think I've ever posted much about Rihanna on here, and I don't post in general here much anymore, but wow ANTI is such a great album! I loved it when it came out, but I've realized now that it's probably the best she's ever done. I can still listen to most of the album without skipping anything. I hope the album gets the recognition it deserves. It's a grower for sure.
15. Work There’s no shortage of ways in which Rihanna has demonstrated her total lack of ****s to give, but this particular demonstration has got to be the most chill. “Work” isn’t the kind of track usually presented as an album’s lead single: It’s got a dancehall beat and a lackadaisical pace, lyrics laced through with Creole and Jamaican patois, a Drake verse that’s both essential and oddly anticlimactic, and a minimalist feel at odds with its relentless lyrics. Those aren’t the only contradictions present in “Work”, either, as Rihanna gives voice to a woman who’s both halfway out her lover’s door already (“You took my heart on my sleeve for decoration”) and prepared to plead for another chance (“If I get another chance to/ I will never, no never neglect you”). Sweating sex without ever truly aiming for sexy, dusted with a despair that never really feels all that pressing, “Work” simply … is. It arrives, it exists, it fades, and you play it again. –Allison Shoemaker http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/1...ngs-of-2016/5/
I've been saying this for quite some time now, overall the critics already have this mindset for Rihanna.
Just seeing how they praise certain artists and albums to the highest and turn around and snub Rihanna for making the same music is so funny to me.
Blonde for example, it's a good album but it's not better than ANTI. But because "Frank Ocean" released it, automatically makes it a critically acclaimed masterpiece, being placed higher than ANTI on most lists.
In the reviews for ANTI some of the critics basically dragged her for trying something different. Which doesn't make sense to me because before they were begging her to come out of her pop phase.
Now that she proved them wrong with this album, i feel like they're still not giving her the full credit she deserves.
I don't think I've ever posted much about Rihanna on here, and I don't post in general here much anymore, but wow ANTI is such a great album! I loved it when it came out, but I've realized now that it's probably the best she's ever done. I can still listen to most of the album without skipping anything. I hope the album gets the recognition it deserves. It's a grower for sure.
- Shotgun feat. J. Cole (obviously excluded from ANTI, maybe now part of his album, its a midtempo so it could still fit into his own material and album. His last album did not included ANY features and was pretty successful though.)
- Pray 4 Me feat. Big Sean (from the 2014 R8 sessions, he is releasing in Q1 2017, went on tour with her this summer so they could have talked about it)
- Rih being on Drakes new album "More Life" (they recorded new music this summer and I remember some insider on twitter heard one of those songs)
Also the Guetta/Stargate song One Life To Live that got registered a while ago can appear on Guetta's upcoming album
Remember when Rihanna and Calvin topped WFL this year? Wow. The Queen gave it ALL to us this year. Y'all hoes better be grateful! This is definitely her best dance song ever.
The cover art for Rihanna’s eighth and most captivatingly ambitious album depicts an innocently half-clothed girl child with a gold crown over her eyes, recalling a blindfold or a virtual-reality headset. The image complements a line that leaps out from “Consideration,” the first song on this musically sweeping non-linear journey to the center of our pop heroine’s mind. “I need you to please give my reflection a break from the face it’s seeing now,” Rihanna wails in patois over a cool, slightly dislocated beat. Often accused of being all persona, the Barbados-born globalist reminds us with this demand, and throughout this prismatic set, that each of us lives, now more than ever, within the mirror halls of our own self-projections. Anti shows Rihanna and her collaborators forging a new sound to suit the pixelated nature of 21st-century consciousness, in which new angles on reality emerge at every screen-led turn. Fusing together avant-R&B production, Caribbean grooves, rock stances, blues feeling and psychedelia’s heavily detailed haze, Anti’s songs connect an unmoored sense of self with drugs, with sex, and with celebrity. Rihanna challenges herself vocally throughout, touching on the pathos of the torch singer and the arrogance of the trap rapper, ultimately espousing a musical globalism whose natural home is cyberspace. Our most futuristic pop star fully owns the mood of today’s hip hop-driven mainstream on Anti: more avant-garde than anything happening in so-called “alternative” music, more true to the dislocated heart of multi-device driven existence than any other Top 40 artist’s grandest statement.
I really love this review and have a lot of respect for NPR Music. They have shown ANTi/Rih love from January 27th onward. Some of these fake ass publications can't relate
Remember when Rihanna and Calvin topped WFL this year? Wow. The Queen gave it ALL to us this year. Y'all hoes better be grateful! This is definitely her best dance song ever.
With all the acclaim ANTI is getting, her next album has the potential to be as acclaimed as selftitled by Beyoncè.
Anti and 4 have the same metacritic score too
, but this particular demonstration has got to be the most chill. “Work” isn’t the kind of track usually presented as an album’s lead single: It’s got a dancehall beat and a lackadaisical pace, lyrics laced through with Creole and Jamaican patois, a Drake verse that’s both essential and oddly anticlimactic, and a minimalist feel at odds with its relentless lyrics. Those aren’t the only contradictions present in “Work”, either, as Rihanna gives voice to a woman who’s both halfway out her lover’s door already (“You took my heart on my sleeve for decoration”) and prepared to plead for another chance (“If I get another chance to/ I will never, no never neglect you”). Sweating sex without ever truly aiming for sexy, dusted with a despair that never really feels all that pressing, “Work” simply … is. It arrives, it exists, it fades, and you play it again. –Allison Shoemaker
