King Baby

Me too. He is a real bitch, and these re-uglicans are walking all over him. He should have just let McCain win if his agenda is gon a control Washington anyway.

Her vocals are amazing on ths album...

yassssssssssssss...except it wouldn't be a hidden track. It would be the last track on the album proceed by sensual lighting and scandalous moans.

Only 3 stars? Loud ***by Sal Cinquemani on November 12, 2010 Jump to Comments (0) or Add Your Own After comparing last year's Rated R to Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope, Eric Henderson ended his review of the album by expressing hopes that Rihanna wouldn't follow up with something like All for You. At first glance, it appears that his fears were justified: Like Janet's last hit album, Loud is a decided step away from its über-personal, melodrama-drenched predecessor. While that may disappoint critics like Eric and I, however, it's probably smart business. Lead single "Only Girl (In the World)" finds New York production duo Stargate co-opting David Guetta's inexplicably popular Eurotrash sound pretty effectively, but that song eschews the subtle West Indian flavor with which Rihanna and company have smartly imbued the rest of the album. The singer hasn't embraced—or exploited, depending on how you want to look at it—her Caribbean roots this much since her debut, and after hearing the entire album, her "loud" red hair and floral-pattern dresses make that much more sense. That's not to say there aren't traces of the R-rated Rihanna here. The album opens with an ode to S&M that would make various parts of Janet's body perk up, and the inclusion of a new version of "Love the Way You Lie" shows that Rihanna isn't completely ready to put her much-publicized bout with domestic abuse behind her. The album's biggest highlight is "Man Down," a full-fledged reggae tune co-written by fellow Barbadan Shontelle Layne about a woman who shoots a man (her abusive boyfriend? Her abusive pimp? Or maybe she's simply the abuser). Either way, Rihanna sounds surprisingly agile in this genre and it's one of her finest, most confident vocal performances to date. In the end, Loud really isn't Rihanna's All for You, but like Janet, Rihanna has always had trouble fitting into one genre (she has largely flip-flopped between dance, pop, and R&B, crossing over in a big way but meeting resistance in the urban market—a problem Janet would no doubt encounter if she were starting out today too), and for better or worse, Rihanna continues to stylistically branch out on Loud. "California King Bed" is a slushy acoustic ballad whose clever metaphor is all but suffocated beneath the song's cheesy production choices, and the same producers fill "Cheers (Drink to That)" with a sample of Avril Lavigne's yelp, an odd choice consdering Rihanna has contributed at least a couple more famous vocal tics of her own to the pop lexicon.

You love us or at least you better pretend you do because I still have that tape and it can be leaked to the media Mr. Movie Director.

The thought of anguish, pain, agony and dispair just brings so much joy and makes me wanna move like Janet

Man that "Dangerously in Love" CD had the single worst song I've ever heard on it. I bet them trailor park dwellers was incestual bliss when that song came out. Girl please. What was she thinking? Now that one I bet her nasty ass did write... I will not have it from these gals today DJ

And furthermore when everybody looks at Beyonce's grammy sweeps it all seems like a fluke. Beyonce, Alicia, Norah, etc. have never had a year like Lauryn Hill, and that shit just further downgrades the establishment.

You girls and ya'lls inflated sales. Of course sony is going to lie. Beyonce at most has sold 44 million in album sales including Destiny's child. That means she would have sold 86 million in singles and that definately is not the case!! Of course Sony is going to inflate her sales. I mean its theeir artist, and this is the same label that wants us to believe thats Michael jackson's voice. The entire world has listened to his voice 40 years. We know when its him or not, and furthermore the Spice Girls have sold more than Destiny's Child and have toured bigger.

Thats a thought but I live for the calamity that we be created once they release an album featuring a sassy selection of Michael Jackson impersonators singing ovwe authentic MJ samples and such. His insane fans will tear down the walls, that is the ones that don't commit suicide out of rage for the treatment of Michael. And I'll be there to point and laugh

I am guessing Janet wasn't too pleased with sexy sassy Oprah's asking about the child molestation stuff... But if one of ya'll know, fill your king in to what is going on.

He wouldn't. Thats why he never released the songs in the first place He is nothing but bones in they still dicking him. Nasty whores.

Crazy part is Rihanna still got "Cheers" which has number 1 written all over it oo.

Nobody is arguing talent hunnies...I am talking about product. That reviewer is obviously on drugs. Rihanna sounds nothing like Beyonce, isn't trying to sound like Beyonce, isn't trying to look like Beyonce, and has more hits than Beyonce. Of course nobody is more market savy than beyonce minus at best madonna, I'll give her that.

I am here til 6pm. It keeps me from dying of boredom. On another note, I made copies of Rihanna's new cd that is suppose to come Tuesday and made 40 bucks off of selling them at lunch time hot and before you can get it in stores. Thats my bar money for the night. "Cheers" to Rihanna!

Gwurl stop. You are doing too much. All those flopped songs made that half of the CD coaster worthy. "Halo" was the only song on their that was big and it still couldn't get to number 1... And how is the difference beyonce goes number 1 when Rihanna has snatched Beyonce's mere 5 number 1 singles to peices with 8. The most of her generation. After her next number 1 single she ties Beyonce and destiny's childs number 1 singles combined.

That chick didn't se no damn 130 million records even with Destiny's Child, and the sale of their singles! "Crazy in Love" was also bigger than "Single Ladies" for sure in America. More than half of Beyonce's number 1 singles have included features. Lets not be the pot calling the kettle black. You just mad cause Beyonce and Rihanna was tied for a minute and then in a years time Rihanna has pulled way out in front.

If we want to fight and debate these chicks then thats what we'll do! So ya'll peace-keepers either pick your guns up and join the battle, or exit stage left! Now back to the fighting ladies where we we?

Gaga is all smoke and mirrors, but as far as her songs, she don't have anything that gets as emotional and with the depth of songs like "Unfaithful," or even Russian Roulette"...I really want to hear Gaga's new album. WHen I hear songs like "Fire Bomb", I believe them. "Speechless" I don't believe. Vocally Gaga is a less talented Xtina at best, Rihanna sounds like nothing before her. Rihanna grinds out great pop songs, reggae, R&B, hip hop songs, and ballads...Gaga's ballads like "Speechless" pale in comparison to Rihanna's ballads and thats why they haven't been released as singles. Them ballads suck. Rihanna even does better ballads than Beyonce. Rihanna's voice has far more emotional then Beyonce's.

Oh Please everyboody knows that beyonce doesn't have great albums and "Dangerously in Love" sucked. "Good Girl Gone bad" is better overall than any Beyonce album and t has the hits to prove it. "The Fame" was an excellent debut album but it was no "Good Girl Gone Bad"... Artist like Rihanna, Ke$ha and Britney Spears are just not taken seriously enough to garner the type of politics that Beyonce, Alicia Keys and Gaga and them girls are. There is a reason why if just 5 short years Rihanna is leaving Beyonce in the dust on the hot 100. Quiet as its kept, Ke$ha is already matching what Gaga has done of the hot 100.

Beyonce is to the level where she gets nominations and wins based on politics which is exactly why Rihanna doesn't. Like you said, Rihanna is looked at as a puppet, I don't deny that, but that is the only reason she doesn't get the nominations. If she were to demand her name be included as a writer and producer on all her songs like Beyonce does then she would get that credit. Lady Gaga is definately a more talented artist, and cheers to her for co-producing her own album but her hype machine is stronger than her songs which is why she only has 2 number 1 singles like Ke$ha, and Rihanna has had 3 this year alone. No denying Rihanna is a package, but the people doing the packaging know what they are doing, and if you stack the 5 best rihanna songs against the 5 best Gaga songs, Rihanna more than meets the challenge. I think the best Beyonce songs are better than the best Rihanna songs. Beyonce just can't manage to put together a great album.

I am not done yet but it really is a great album from what I been hearing. "Cheers" is my jam. Rihanna is bringing the fire. Lady Gaga better come out with something out there for real. Beyonce needs to step up her game, because Rihanna is making better overall albums than her now. Rihanna has topped her as the biggest female hit maker in the world right now. Beyonce's albums ride between frantic club beats, and boring ballads. Rihanna uses a lot more variety and you can see the growth in her singing. I would never say she can't sing anymore. "Sasha Fierce" could have been a masterpeice but Beyonce was doing too much with it. Had she made it one disc and included the very best with song like "Radio" and "Smash Into You", and cut out alot of the sloppy emotionless ballads she would have had her masterpeice. She really only needed Single Ladies, Radio, Smash Into You, Halo, Sweet Dreams, If I were a boy, and a few others. Since "Good Girl Gone Bad", Rihanna has consistantly made better albums that Beyonce. This album to me is on par with her last album, it doesn't have the "Umbrella" mega smash classic on it, but she more than certainly keep up with "Rude Boy"...She may actually catch Janet's hot 100 record with this album. "Cheers" can easily go number 1, and I am shocked That the only girl in the world song missed number 1. Rihanna's album feels like nearly every song could be a hit on some format, not necessarily a monster hit, but a hit.

Her rap style is annoying too. I don't like it but I might buy a few of the cuts from I itunes. I like the new single, check me out, and the first song she dropped though. The beats are blah

That makes zero sense. She is going from the beginning to the end starting with the first, Miss Josephine Baker and ending with TLC and then moving on to herself. Why would Beyonce go before Janet and TLC when she came out after them both? Its Donna. Case closed. Beyonce has stolen from so many of them girls its easy to see her in a lot of them scenes though. She used Josephine Baker in the first single from "B'Day", Janet in "Ring the Alarm", and no need to mention Miss Diana. I am shicked that she didn't use Tina Turner in the video though. I so loved that she used Janet and TLC. My overall favs.

That Kandi song "Fly Above" should have been a hit. Kandi needs to produce the Willow album. Her style so works with Willow's. P!nk is killing them as usual, and Rihanna can almost officially say she is the baddest b!tch in the game now.