Let's have a thread for Rihanna's LOUD

i know that justifying ur taste w/ weirdly racialised pseudo music theory is yr "thing" but that is not gonna fly

oddly enough, i thought a lady gaga song was rihanna when i heard it coming out of a bar once recently

u aiight geir

i'm on repeat w/ this now, the whole thing. the "you're not easy to love" hook in "complicated" is greatness. and "only girl" literally brought down the house at the holiday party i went to last night (not surprising).

ps i weirdly like s&m now. i always like it when my bf likes songs, and he was pulled in by this one. i just wish the lyrics were different.

s&m!??

funnily enough, California King Bed kind of gets me. it's like a soap opera, and sort of triflingly, hilariously (too) epic, but it's beautiful, too. that voice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtBeobpTcmk&feature=player_embedded

Awesome.

i would respond to that but my stupid computer at work does not let me see video links for some reason (what is it?)

SKIN is so good!

and s&m is the perfect pace for walking in new york. i literally do not miss a beat.

It's a cover of "Only Girl" with a guy beatboxing all the parts of the song, and singing.

...except it may be more processed than the original

...except it may be more processed than the original

i'mma go get the papers

Yeah, but so what?

not to be picky but shouldnt you be rihanna rennavated my dick for consistency

Good call.

Fuckin skin ... And the fadin song ... some remarkable cuts

ayyy i love how even the shoddiest rihanna project will eventually be redeemed via the medium of dancehall remixes. "what's my name?" minus drake, plus vybz kartel!

http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2010/12/whats-my-name-federation-remix-f

love this album. nice counterpoint to the darkness of Rated R.

overall think her last two albums have been more consistent in quality even if I think Good Girl Gone Bad (the third re-release with Take a Bow and shiz on it) had higher highs like "Breaking Dishes" and stuff.

i need to give Loud another listen, i loved GGGB and Rated R but the new one hasn't clicked yet :/

i think rihanna's fantastic, but i haven't bought any of her albums yet. i need to change that asap

i'd rate them

rated r >>>>>> music of the sun > a girl like me > good girl gone bad >>>>>> loud

<3 <3 loud <3 <3

rated r >>>>>> good girl gone bad > music of the sun > a girl like me > good girl gone bad >>>>>> loud

apparently i need to get rated r!!!

um, YES

good girl gone bad has like 4-5 unfuckwithable singles, she's never gonna do that again :(

i don't think that's a sad thing. u can't really have more than 1 album like that, it's like a law of physics. but the 2 singles off this have been unfuckwithable in my mind.

riri: "oh nah nah what's my name"

drake: **mumblemumblemumble**

me: zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

if you fuck w/ rihanna but don't dig that chorus idk what to tell you

you kidding? it's like the most zzzz chorus she's ever done!

like, it's not actively offensive, it's just boring as fuck

i really like "what's my name"

i feel badgered by that chorus, it doesn't roll off the tongue nearly as irresistibly as "Rude Boy"

idk i think it flows perfectly once you can get over the "oooh-na-na" parts

it flows but i guess i feel like it's throwing me on a conveyor belt and i don't feel like going along for the ride?

i know what you mean -- that's how i started to feel about the "california gurls" chorus after a while

ew pls don't compare the 2, what's my name is like a majestic confection compared to the stilted bore that is the california gurls chorus

it doesn't roll the same way rude boy does but the slight tension in the melody makes it better for me

calling it the most zzzz chorus she's ever done is just plain Rong tho sorry to have to say it

lol

ramzi is the god

"what's my name?" is a catchy but boring chorus until placed in the context of that vybz kartel remix, where it's fully lovable

wtf is wrong with yall? "ooh na na na na" is the best part of that song!

gggb (really her only essential album) >>> loud > music of the sun > rated r > a girl like me

whats my name is one of her best singles

its like WMN/Hard/If its lovin that you want. i have weird favourite rihanna singles. i also love te amo like a lot and was p. surprised it wasnt a neyo song when i heard it first.

"hard" and "if it's loving..." are not weird favourite rihanna singles, they're both a+++

yeah well they are among her least successful commercially

p sure if its lovin isnt even on her vevo channel

we put up red lighting for a party at ours recently, and it looked like the new rihanna videos, and we played a lot of rihanna that night

"if it's loving..." was only her second single, back when even people who loved "pon de replay" kind of thought she'd be a one-hit wonder. "hard" was a US top 10 and afaik never a proper UK single.

"Hard" is ok but kind of a bad look

she does that early beyonce style of singing really well on it and the blacktop maybach hook has serious claws