Rihanna - ANTI (January (???) 2016)

Already coming around on the needs-a-strepsil parts on "Higher". This has been a bit overshadowed by KING for me but I really like it generally, easily her best since rated r

tame rihmpala is great that's the hill i shall die on

In respect of the Tame cover being basically the original song just with a new vocal, first thing that came to mind was Robbie Williams' cover of the Pet Shop Boys' cover of We Are The Pet Shop Boys by My Robot Friend. literally the same damn thing aside from the vocal.

I apologize. Rihanna is a genius and can do now wrong. Tame Impala sucks.

But really this is not a cover, not even a remix. It's the exact same song with the exact same lyrics just a different vocalist. As a cover it's lazy and I feel it's unfair to call it a Rihanna song.

You can rationalize your hatred for tame impala as much as you want but this is still a tame impala song. Rihanna didn't do the slightest effort to make this song hers.

is it 'rockist' to suggest an artists needs to make a song their own before we can legit call it a cover?

^^^right, i mean, all her songs are kinda 'karaoke versions', we usually just haven't heard the originals.

xp

― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, January 29, 2016 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the last part is crucial though? like if the "original" is already commercially released, it's the height of laziness to then put your version on your album as if that hadn't happened, and not even bother to make it distinct

and it's hilarious that anyone thought this particular song was worth it

well according to some ppl 'in terms of both song and production it's really a standout, '

well, compared with what's around it

haha yeah i know just couldnt resist

higher is great

work is good too, strikes me as an earworm-y summer jam imo. the drake vers is v bad tho h8 09 singsongy drake

The copy here is a little funny. I guess it's a shame people were anticipating her previous 8th album less than this one.

http://i.imgur.com/d5Il9fT.png

Why are some of you so dense? Tame Impala had released the song less than a year ago and they're not precisely unknown. They're headlining festivals around the world. Taking their previously released song and not adding anything to it is lazy however you want to put it. Had the song been written by Tame Impala and never released before I can get it, but this is not the case.

But hey at least some of you can finally enjoy a Tame Impala song!

I'm enjoying the fact that lex got tricked into liking a Tame Impala song tbh

Where can I hear this album?

only streaming on the rihanna plane

I don't see where "dense" comes in

Higher is written by the same woman who wrote BBHMM, right? I think I remember her saying that in some interview.

anyone have any edited ANTI tracklists???

1. kiss it better
2. kiss it better
3. kiss it better
4. kiss it better
5. kiss it better
6. kiss it better
7. kiss it better
8. kiss it better
9. kiss it better
10. kiss it better
11. kiss it better
12. kiss it better
13. james joint

otm

without reading any of the preceding comments i gotta say this album kinda stinks

460 copies sold http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/arts/music/rihanna-anti-chart-tidal-debut-sales.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

poor tidal.

well but

• she gave away 1m copies through a samsung discount, which didn't count in the tally
• the album was released on wednesday night to tidal, later to sale platforms, and the chart week ends thursday
• you can't buy albums via tidal?

basically this is one of those stories with an "OOH IM TELLIN MAMA" angle as long as you don't look at the entire picture

Probably the wrong thread for this but anyway

http://www.stereogum.com/1856262/if-rihanna-can-go-platinum-giving-anti-away-for-free-what-does-platinum-even-mean/franchises/sounding-board/

But hey at least some of you can finally enjoy a Tame Impala song!

I enjoed the last Tame Impala album and enjoyed the overly faithful cover, so stay mad I guess.

Albums sales don't mean anything and that's okay.

help I can't stop listening to "Work"

― The Reverend, Friday, January 29, 2016 4:57 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also this.

well but

• she gave away 1m copies through a samsung discount, which didn't count in the tally
• the album was released on wednesday night to tidal, later to sale platforms, and the chart week ends thursday
• you can't buy albums via tidal?

basically this is one of those stories with an "OOH IM TELLIN MAMA" angle as long as you don't look at the entire picture

― maura, Tuesday, February 2, 2016 11:22 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i'm curious where those 460 sales even came from, because it wasn't sold on iTunes until Friday iirc. do stores have CDs yet? is it possible there were some stores that got it on Thursday and just put it right on sale? obviously a big reason most albums come out at the beginning of the sales week is to avoid this kind of embarrassing 2-day data getting twisted around by people, but i guess the Tidal leak was an accident.

i'm really at a loss as to how anyone thought this was a news story

You can buy albums via Tidal, but Tidal gave ANTi away for free, mp3s and flacs. So the sales are from a couple of hours worth of itunes sales, after 1.5 million people had already downloaded it for free.

some old reliables came through

https://soundcloud.com/funkystepzuk/work-funkystepz-mix

GET IN

love how they turn the lazy blahblahblah vocal take of the original into a strength

meanwhile i can't believe people are actually lapping up the "most personal artistic work yet" angle

"Work" would be tolerable at 1:50 and without Drake.

this is a pretty succinct summary of what led to ri's chart debut to those who are still confused as to what happened. the 460 units were purchases made from tidal after they inadvertently leaked it.

http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=299565

meanwhile i can't believe people are actually lapping up the "most personal artistic work yet" angle

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, February 4, 2016 2:51 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha what?

Someone wanna predict what single no. 2 is?

Tame Impala joint

This was really pleasant and enjoyable to listen to right up until Drake appeared and now, even though I like and appreciate the songs that came after it, I still have an overwhelming urge to set my computer on fire.

Is there any precedent for Rihanna's Tame Impala cover? I've never ever heard a pop act cover a song before by just singing over the original instrumental and calling it a day. At least not on an official commercial release anyway? Hilarious either way

― MrExplorer, Friday, January 29, 2016 4:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tons of precedent I'm sure, though maybe not recently

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, January 29, 2016 8:06 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Shakira's cover of "Islands" from 2010 is very close to being this. There are a few flourishes here and there to make it less xx-y and more like a Shakira song but it's very, very close to the original:

https://youtu.be/AI-lroM6i6g

Someone wanna predict what single no. 2 is?

― zbs, Wednesday, February 10, 2016 2:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Kiss It Better" is the only one i easily imagine or look forward to hearing on the radio

Looks like Yeah I Said It is the one they're trying to push atm

that's prob my 2nd favorite on the album so i'm cool with that

Xxpost: the Shakira cover re-recorded every instrument, she's not singing over the original instrumental.

There's many precedents but rarely from big pop acts. I've seen it done on those cheap 'best of' compilations that can't afford to pay full rights so they hire an unknown singer to sing on top of the original.

Jamaican riddim and dub culture is a more apt comparison imho, although they're not really covers rather a new song, adding original lyrics, melodies and sometimes new instruments. Rihanna herself had done it before on Pon de Replay which uses Diwalli riddim.

Side point: I really love the democracy in dub/riddims. I read somewhere that the culture started over aspiring singers not having the money to pay for studio time and thus producers started developing them for djs and singers to sing on top of them.

genuinely forgot about this album