Rihanna - 'Talk That Talk'
What’s in a font? In terms of music, they can conjure up several different meanings, from something stalwart ( The Rolling Stones , Ramones ) to the ephemeral and futuristic ( Daft Punk ), and finally to the fussy and over focus-grouped ( Cher...
Rihanna, ‘We Found Love’ – Review
By now it's pretty customary to have a jaw-on-the-floor reaction to the first single from a Rihanna album. 'Pon De Replay', 'SOS', 'Umbrella','Russian Roulette','Only Girl In The World'. It's like the setlist from The Best Wedding Disco ever,...
Rihanna - Loud (Def Jam/Mercury)
You don’t often get revealing moments at album playbacks. Excellent canapés and cheeky cocktails on diamanté-dripping trays, yes; epiphanies, no. So last month at London’s Sketch bar, when Rihanna was asked by a besuited Capital FM DJ as...
Album review: Rihanna - 'Rated R' (Mercury)
Before we begin, let’s get this straight: this is not a record about Chris Brown . It is a record influenced by Chris Brown, but it’s not about him. In a recent interview with Radio 1, Rihanna explained that going into the studio “was my...
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Having already provided two classic hymns to sisterhood solidarity in ‘SOS’ and ‘Umbrella’ (you might possibly have heard that one), Rihanna ups the stakes with ‘Take A Bow’. “You’re so ugly when you cry/Please, just cut it out”,...
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From the moment you heard it you knew you were going to hear it EVERY-bloody-where from BoomBox to Budgens, forever, and that, one way or another, you had just better get used to that fact. And quickly. After 10 weeks at Number One, by late July...
