That is the one thing that is not up for debate. Whether the album seems ridiculous or spectacular (or both), Rihanna's complete immersion in the majority of the songs cannot be disputed. The one exception is the wistful, bittersweet “Photographs,” a rare instance of the singer dropping her guard, but it really sticks out since it is surrounded by material that has her taking the variably authentic roles of abused lover, dominatrix, and murderer. “G4L,” over a low-slung and sleek production, is the most fantastical of all, in which Rihanna leads a band of homicidal women, opening with “I lick the gun when I’m done ‘cause I know that revenge is sweet” and “Any mothaf*cka wanna disrespect/Playin’ with fire finna get you wet.” The breakup song, “Fire Bomb,” even though it is also metaphorical, is a close second in terms of lyrical extremity: “I just wanna set you on fire so I won’t have to burn alone.” Some of the breathers - the songs that are less intense - hold the album back since Rihanna sounds detached from them. The closest the set gets to upbeat pop is “Rude Boy,” and by any standard it is stern needless to say, there is quite a difference between “Can you get it up?” and “You can stand under my umbrella.” Much of this daring album is absolutely over the top, bleak and sleek both lyrically and sonically, but it’s compelling, filled with as many memorably belligerent lines - two of which, “I pitch with a grenade/Swing away if ya feeling brave” and “I’m such a fuckin’ lady,” set the tone early on - as a rap album made ripe for dissection. Rated R is more like Good Girl Gone Evil, or Abused Girl Full of Vengeful Rage, not Good Girl Gone Bad, where the only casualties were some dishes. It’s not the only instance where Rihanna’s rise in fame, combined with being the victim in the decade’s highest-profile felonious assault, added up to a perfect-storm scenario for a creative overhaul. And then there’s an audible shudder followed by a discharged bullet - the abrupt end to one of Rated R’s most restrained moments. Even with the realization that it is metaphorical, the song startles with its hesitant gasps, spinning cylinders, and verses that are glacially paced, where a cold piano line and the slight inflections in Rihanna's voice are front and center. Album Description"Russian Roulette," released weeks prior to Rated R, just hinted at Rihanna's sudden desire to provoke. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. © Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo More info By the end of Anti, Rihanna may not arrive at any definitive conclusions about her art but she's allowed herself to be unguarded and anti-commercial, resulting in her most compelling record to date.
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These songs come at the end of the album, after a series of songs that drift and wonder, the sound of an artist trying to figure out not only what her album is but who she is.
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The latter has always been a specialty of Rihanna - her distance from her material was at once appealing and alienating - so hearing her lean into "Love on the Brain" and "Higher" is something of a revelation: her voice is hoarse and ravaged, yet she's also controlled and precise, knowing how to hone these imperfections so her performance echoes classic soul while feeling fresh. Mood matters more than either hooks or rhythm: it's a subdued, simmering affair, its songs subtly shaded yet interlocked to create a vibe caught halfway between heartbreak and ennui. This is an album whose heart lies within its deep cuts. Such a sustained sensibility distinguishes Anti from its predecessors, records where album cuts often felt like afterthoughts. Then again, neither would've felt at home on the cloistered Anti, the first of Rihanna's records to feel constructed as a front-to-back album. When Anti finally appeared in January 2016 - three years after Unapologetic and months later than expected - it bore none of these 2015 singles, a move that suggests a tacit acknowledgment that neither the curiously muted Kanye West and Paul McCartney collaboration "FourFiveSeconds" nor the unrestrained roar of "Bitch Better Have My Money" functioned as appropriate anchors for the album. Work on Anti began in the autumn of 2014 and proceeded in semi-public, progress being measured in Instagram posts and tweets, along with intermittent singles, each released to white-hot anticipation but none metamorphosing into massive hits. Buy the album Starting at 13.29€Īnti existed as an album cycle before it existed as an album - arguably long before Rihanna knew what form her eighth album would take, either.
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Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. 7‘Music From The Sun’ (2005) Rihanna shot out of the gates all the way back in 2005 with ‘Music Of The Sun’, a debut album that as the title suggests captured the sun-kissed sounds.
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