Let's have a thread for Rihanna's LOUD

Stay video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF8BRvqGCNs

Mykki Ekko confuses me. Why is some completely random unknown moany white boy on a big Rihanna single?

Terrible song with or without him though

Yeah who is this guy?

He co-wrote/-produced it, I guess? I don't really have any problem with the song, seems like a weird choice for a single tho.

So weird, right? Songwriters singing and producing their own songs...ON A RIHANNA ALBUM?!! GTFO!

i think i like stay a lot, seems like a weird song to call terrible but i have to listen again i've only heard it like once

xp Terius should've been her duet partner (not really, but anyone other than Chris) on "Nobody's Business" at any rate.

I assume no songwriter as hitherto unknown (and unremarkable) as Ekko would end up with a featuring credit, a substantial vocal part, a video appearance and his song being pushed as a single if a big push in his own right wasn't being planned. Which is ominous, because on the evidence he's shit and this is nothing to look fwd to

perhaps i've developed a degree of paranoia after years of being comprehensively gainsaid by rih's fiendishly clever handlers but i think of 'stay' as kind of a muted trojan horse just to keep her name in the air until the (spring/summer)time is right and punters' patience is more temperate

contrary to what i had idly assumed it appears there is in fact a substantial difference between mykkis blanco and ekko. i'm actually looking at pictures of ekko now trying to see into his soul but all that comes to mind is "john mayer needs a haircut"

Found myself enjoying this on the radio recently which is more than I could say for Diamonds.

Still never heard Unapologetic in full.

Despite a couple barely forgivable moments it's possibly her best album? Which isn't saying a ton but it's good.

nah, 'good girl gone bad' is wayyyyy better

that's an out-an-out great pop album

I'd say they're on par. I haven't listened to GGGB in forever tho and should probably revisit.

seems like a weird choice for a single tho.

Seems pretty obviously an attempt to capitalize on some Gotye hangover. I don't think this will have a ton of top 40 success, but it's definitely one of those THIS IS DEEP AND MEANS SOMETHING TO ME songs for teenagers.

the whole album is pretty downtempo compared to other Rihanna records (maybe even Rated R?), so it kinda figures that this would be the time that they'd venture a piano ballad single for the first time since "Unfaithful" (which this is at least way way better than)

I was thinking Adele, rather than Gotye.

I'll put Music of the Sun up with GGGB and Unapologetic. It's kind of a perfect Caribbean-pop trifle in a way.

A little of both maybe? The duet reminds me of Gotye, the accompaniment is all Adele.

yeah i get nothing Gotye out that other than 'for the first time ever, white boys can help Rihanna dominate pop radio'

out of that

yea as far as downtempo goes Stay is leaps and bounds ahead of Diamonds and Unfaithful jeez louise

both of those songs are like jackhammers in your brain

'for the first time ever, white boys can help Rihanna dominate pop radio'

please

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSjFam_dQL85wCHZVi3jd-TCcUxhtItAFozAI5Of2W9AdByjbiEtA

eh i meant as performers obv

lol

well idk i kinda like this song actually, it sounded 'right' when i first heard it on the radio on a cold night

totally

One thing I've noticed about Rihanna as a singer is that she has started emoting more convincingly as she's gotten older; I cringe to think of what she would have done to this song had it come out at the same time as "Unfaithful".

it would have been very sad :(

and yes i've heard people comment similarly about her recent performances

she's pretty fantastic on "Loveeeeeee Song" imo

ur pretty fantastic

ur pretty

thx surm happy valentine's day

blushin

favourite riri album for me is a tossup between GGGB and Rated R, Loud and Talk that talk both had shining moments but felt tossed off and lazy. Everything I read about this album made it sound even lazier + i guess i still find the whole chris brown thing pretty icky, but then I listened to "stay" about four times yesterday so now i don't even know.

vin diesel is feeling "stay"

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4256755106383&set=vb.89562268312&type=2&theater

haha wtf

totally come round to "pour it up" now, her delivery is fucking amazing

i want a video asap

she sounds so...sober

I don't know where this should go, because there a million Rihanna threads, but this is so good I have no problem linking to bu**feed.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/a-rihanna-meet-greet-vs-an-avril-lavigne-meet-greet

yeah that was pretty hysterical

those rihanna pictures are so beautiful!
like richard renaldi portraits, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117208/touching-strangers-richard-renaldi-surprisingly-moving

awesome

is Rihanna way taller than I realized?

Yeah, I had the same though. I'd always assumed she was kind of short(ish) for some reason, but perhaps not.

she's 5'8" and always in heels, so

orchestral "pour it up" <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLcjTzDsJnc