DJ Y2K Malone™ Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 here is MTV review of the new album Rihanna's Talk That Talk: Bad Girl Goes Even Badder Rihanna takes the reins on her new album, which is not only the best of her career, but perhaps the best pop album of the year. Rihanna's already Gone Bad, been Rated R and gotten Loud (all within the span of about four years, mind you), which sort of raises the question: What's left? Well, if her new album, Talk That Talk — in stores November 21 — is any indication, she's not really sure of the answer. But here's the brilliant thing about the disc: Rather than go searching for a new public persona, this time around, she's simply content to sharpen her focus. And in doing that, she's created an album that is badder, raunchier and louder than anything she's ever done before; an endlessly compelling, hit-soaked, high-powered thing that's not only the best effort of her career, but arguably the best pop album of 2011. Talk That Talk outmuscles Born This Way, outguns Femme Fatale and, while it might never outsell 21 (because, really, what album can at this point?), it certainly outworks it. Simply put, it's the album on which Rihanna absolutely goes for it, pushing her naughty-girl image to the breaking point, embracing the clubs with both arms, strutting and lilting and sassing her way past her pop contemporaries. Working with a blue-ribbon panel of today's most gifted hitmakers (Dr. Luke, Calvin Harris, Stargate, Bangladesh, No I.D., Hit-Boy, etc.), she's managed to craft an album that will no doubt bear radio fruit for the foreseeable future (current single "We Found Love" is the #1 song in the country, just in case you didn't know) but also pulls off the rather interesting feat of being endlessly, obsessively interesting too. Take, for example, album opener "You Da One," which starts in traditional RiRi territory — building on a slow, skanking rhythm — expands with a starbursty chorus, then contracts nearly as quickly on a knotty, ratcheting middle. Or "Where Have You Been," a song that not only sees her borrowing lyrics from Geoff Mack's dusty stomper "I've Been Everywhere," but features a chorus that sounds very much like Faithless' "Insomina" and a breakdown that recalls stuff like Skrillex. There's the futuristic, military whomp of the title track (which gets an assist from Jay-Z, who drops bons mots like "I sell out arenas/ I call that getting dome!"); the Stargate-helmed, XX-sampling "Drunk on Love"; and the rattling raunch of "Birthday Cake," and, perhaps most notably, the oddball, organic machinations of "Cockiness," a classic Bangladesh track that stitches together vocal whoops, cracking drums and bawling horns and features what might possibly be the year's best (or silliest) come-on line, when Rihanna coos, "Suck my cockiness/ Lick my persuasion" (it's either that or Gaga's "I want your whiskey mouth/ All over my blond south"). Of course, all those production flashes would be empty if RiRi didn't match them every step of the way. There's the do-it-on-the-décor lyrics of "Watch n' Learn," the soaring chorus she works herself up to on "We All Want Love," and her genuinely stirring work on album-closing ballad "Farewell," which may be her finest bit of on-album singing to date. She's got attitude and altitude and even a little bit of verisimilitude too — all of which are necessary components of why Talk That Talk works so incredibly well. And sure, the back end may be a bit slow, but you can certainly say that about most pop albums, can't you? The point is, it takes a truly bad bitch to pull off an album this bodacious — regardless of genre — and on Talk That Talk, Rihanna proves that she just might be the baddest bitch of them all. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1674135/rihanna-talk-that-talk-album.jhtml?xrs=share_twitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escapade Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 I like "You Da One" so far. Currently listening to the snippets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escapade Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Judging from the snippets it sounds like it's gonna be a nice album overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaLpHieReBeL516 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 here is MTV review of the new album http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1674135/rihanna-talk-that-talk-album.jhtml?xrs=share_twitter YES!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCNATION Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 TTT IS #8 ON ITUNES SO FAR! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCNATION Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 here is MTV review of the new album http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1674135/rihanna-talk-that-talk-album.jhtml?xrs=share_twitter THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST REVIEW OF THE CD THUS FAR... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaLpHieReBeL516 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST REVIEW OF THE CD THUS FAR... forreal!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
--- Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 ill wait to the album comes out in full, but based on the snippets, iv heard...i dont like it shoulda taken a break from Loud, and it just sounds like a mesh of her previous eras..nothing new or exciting about this not sure why everyone is all in hoops over it like one song from the snippets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Y2K Malone™ Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 why is this mess even on this topic keep talking about Rihanna in Austin's thread on true you because that's the only thing you 2 have in common he already snatched your wig numerous times this year we dont give a fuck on what you say 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
--- Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 "You Da One" is next single...available tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarrylf Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 why is this mess even on this topic keep talking about Rihanna in Austin's thread on true you because that's the only thing you 2 have in common he already snatched your wig numerous times this year we dont give a fuck on what you say :clapping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Y2K Malone™ Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 :clapping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
--- Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Awww, u mad at me again? just becoz me and SEVERAL OTHER MUSIC OUTLETS arent feeling Rihanna's new album? Watchu gonna do? - call me Austin's bandwagon stan OR - create 5 fake accounts and say "look, everyone hates u" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarrylf Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 LOL You know you bad, that was too smooth, your a pro lol You know I love it wehn ya talk that truth lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
--- Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 and ki@ you saying that Austin & I have nothing in common, yet earlier this year you were calling me his bandwagon so that would mean we would have a few more things in common u just make it too easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Y2K Malone™ Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 Awww, u mad at me again? just becoz me and SEVERAL OTHER MUSIC OUTLETS arent feeling Rihanna's new album? Watchu gonna do? - call me Austin's bandwagon stan OR - create 5 fake accounts and say "look, everyone hates u" but you are in this thread why I didnt call you anything we dont care what you have to say so just stay out keep this argument going i will report your crazy ass test me bitch oh by the way how many times have you been banned from here and came back with a new name talk about multiple accounts LOL You know you bad, that was too smooth, your a pro lol You know I love it wehn ya talk that truth lol the poor child is crazy if you claim not to like a certain artist why go in their official thread you never will see me in the Beyonce one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaria Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 should be leaking very soon right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Y2K Malone™ Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 should be leaking very soon right? i think it will leak this weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaria Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 i think it will leak this weekend my transformation into Rihanna will begin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
--- Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 ki @ someone else being mad just because I dont like Rated R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Ummmm why is it only 37:29 long fucking Rihanna.. u release every year.. at least you can sing for longer than 30 minutes in my ear at work LOL the album sounds hott though.. i can hear me grooving to a lot of these songs FAREWELL :excited: :excited: it's gonna be the song that goes to 100 plays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Y2K Malone™ Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 Ummmm why is it only 37:29 long fucking Rihanna.. u release every year.. at least you can sing for longer than 30 minutes in my ear at work LOL the album sounds hott though.. i can hear me grooving to a lot of these songs FAREWELL :excited: :excited: it's gonna be the song that goes to 100 plays I noticed that too she could at lease do 45 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarrylf Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 i think it will leak this weekend GOD I hope it does, it sounds GOOD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Y2K Malone™ Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 GOD I hope it does, it sounds GOOD her last 2 albums leaked about 10 days before the release date Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Loving this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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