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

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fun imo. not sure if built to last but eh who knows

shouldve just had mel forde wilding out for a few bars instead of drizzzz obv

nice to hear her drop the most patois ever in her career. "Her voice has a glossy wordlessness to it, but this is for sure some of her most subtle, expressive, and coolly thrilling shout-singing" lol ok pfork

r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link

https://vine.co/v/O2bPFqvaJMZ

ahahaha DYING

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where your ass was at when we recorded in the bathroom

r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link

loll

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link

so none of the singles ended up on this thing #2016

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link

leaked

r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link

...on Tidal

which seems like a tree falling in the woods type scenario

Number None, Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link

ANTI - POPOVERDOSE EXCLUSIVE.zip

r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link

lol @ nuno's power ballad guitar on "kiss it better"

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link

i really hope this is the end of tidal, what a disaster

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link

ah man "higher" is that song she put on instagram like a year ago, it's so good

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:17 (eight years ago) link

lolololololololololol "same ol' mistakes" is a tame impala cover

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:19 (eight years ago) link

hahahahahaha

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:22 (eight years ago) link

given how long she's been working on this album i really wonder if kevin parker gave her the song first and then just said fuck it and put it on the tame impala album when her album never materialized

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link

lol @ nuno's acoustic power ballad guitar in "never ending"

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link

anyway "yeah i said it" is a lovely slow jam

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link

the first half i suspect was ruined by travis scott's influence, the second half is pretty good give or take how you feel about tame impala

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link

yeah i'm really enjoying how corny "love on the brain" is

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link

the second half is what i thought this record would be like... live instruments, a much more classic sound that showcases her vocals, which sound pretty great!

the first half is like the record she'd want to sit around and smoke weed to but the songs themselves don't seem to be any good

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link

the first half is like the record she'd want to sit around and smoke weed to but the songs themselves don't seem to be any good

this is a major issue with "woo"

who knows though maybe i'll listen to this again

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link

whoa rihanna's voice sounds like it's gonna curl up and die on "higher"

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link

Not finished with the second half, but the first half has the obvious highlights to me so far. But this is all very good so far.

Greer, Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link

Wait, Higher is actively awful, literally who told her to sing like that?

Greer, Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link

assuming she's saying "fuck a tidal" in "yeah, i said it"

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link

why is my favorite song on this 2:13

damn u rihanna albums

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link

her vocals are so good on "higher" that it makes me doubly depressed about the rest of the record

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:49 (eight years ago) link

yeah i'm in love with "kiss it better"

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:57 (eight years ago) link

so syrupy

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:58 (eight years ago) link

This whiskey got me feelin' pretty
So pardon if I'm impolite
I just really need your ass with me
I'm sorry 'bout the other night
And I know I could be more creative
And come up with poetic lines
But I'm turnt up off sess and "I love you"
Is the only thing that's in my mind

You take me higher, higher than I've ever been, babe
Just come over, let's pour a drink, babe
I hope I ain't calling you too late, too late
You light my fire
Let's stay up late and smoke a j
I wanna go back to the old way
But I'm drunk and still with a full ash tray
With a little bit too much to say

real

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link

she's a better drunkdialer than drake

The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link

i wonder if this album has any vestiges of Kanye once being the touted executive producer aside from Travis Scott's involvement

apple bottom steen, HOOS with the fur (some dude), Thursday, 28 January 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link

"never ending" thru "close to you" fucking slays

like "james joint" "work" and "yeah i said it" fine

james brooks, Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:08 (eight years ago) link

the record she'd want to sit around and smoke weed to but the songs themselves don't seem to be any good

...this describes like 2/3 or more of rihanna's entire career?

interested to hear it tho

metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 28 January 2016 03:12 (eight years ago) link

I'm really into the first half of this album so far, so if the second half is supposed to be better I'm really looking forward to it.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 28 January 2016 03:14 (eight years ago) link

shea taylor worked on "james joint" which is cool even if the song is only 72 seconds long. i've always wondered why he fell off the map after working on the best songs on 4 and channel orange.

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:12 (eight years ago) link

"James Joint" sounds like KING o__O

The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:17 (eight years ago) link

SPEAKING OF KING THERE ALBUM IS ON NPR RIGHT NOW

The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link

THEY'RE*

SORRY I GOT EXCITED FOR A SECOND.

The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:28 (eight years ago) link

THEIR. FUCK.

The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:28 (eight years ago) link

AAAAAAAAA

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link

drake is the worst btw

maura, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:41 (eight years ago) link

So did Tidal purposely put it up and then pull it?

curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link

who even knows anymore

maura, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:48 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QrWzsfghA

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link

i mean.. that's 2016

maura, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link

useless drake disses rate ticking

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:55 (eight years ago) link

its a free tidal download now apparently, which prob entails some tidal trial or something, which...gtfo tidal youre not real

metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 28 January 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link

yeah, seems like this perhaps tidal biggest opportunity. i subscribed just to get the album, might unsubscribe asap. first half is good. but not as good as the first 4 track promised.

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 28 January 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link

feeling Same Ol's Mistakes

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 28 January 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link

ANTI is a very good album at the very least

j. winters (josh), Thursday, 28 January 2016 07:19 (eight years ago) link

the fuck is "higher", her voice made me flinch so hard on that

she suits winehouseisms more than i expected on "love on the brain"

"kiss it better" and "yeah i said it" stood out but this seems as mildly unsatisfying a hotchpotch (with a few highlights) as any post-rated r rihanna album, dunno why it took so long to make

cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 January 2016 08:51 (eight years ago) link

this performance is fuckin great http://www.gossipcop.com/rihanna-love-on-the-brain-billboard-music-awards-video-bbmas-performance-watch/

J0rdan S., Monday, 23 May 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link

xp I was wrong, both A Girl Like Me and Good Girl Gone Bad were released on vinyl (and a ton of singles on 12" ofc) but I still don't think it's likely we'll see an official Anti LP since last 4 albums were cd/digital only - there's an unofficial one though, if you just want big cover art https://www.discogs.com/Rihanna-Anti/release/8331284

but it is weird that a huge "urban" release like this isn't issued on vinyl (when the goddamn top gun soundtrack is reissued...), same thing w/ channel orange and nothing was the same

niels, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 07:57 (seven years ago) link

I feel like history will vindicate "Kiss It Better." Already acts are covering it (Miguel and Father John Misty, which yeah, I know), and that helps canonize a song.

haha it's SUCH a Miguel song. It seemed like the obvious non-"Work" hit single to me when I heard the album, but I guess I was wrong. "Needed Me" has never connected with me at all. Also, this album as a whole isn't in any way better than most of her work, although yes the opening run is very good.

Hey (Extended Mix), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link

Maybe this is just music-critic logic, but it feels different from her other albums, even if song for song it isn't necessarily better than those albums. It's got its own flow and logic, and it's just beautifully and thoughtfully sequenced. It holds together less like a conventional pop album and more like some of my fav R&B records from the last five-ish years: All I Want Is You, Channel Orange, Late Nights (the album/the tape).

All of those releases had this sort of abstract quality to them, kind of a puzzle logic. They were pieced together from vignettes and sketches but held together as a whole. They had this kind of cocky, understated confidence to them, and this record feels like Rihanna's own, highly individualistic answer to that. It's exciting.

I understand that a lot of fans get touchy when ppl suggest this is some huge leap for her, and implicitly knock her previous albums. But I don't think the praise is meant to be a matter of better or worse, it's just that this is a very different statement from those records.

Evan R, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link

Also vocally I think this is the best thing she's ever sounded. Her performances here are remarkable

Evan R, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link

Everywhere I go - Work work work work work. Passing cars, always on the radio. It's awesome.

Pentenema Karten, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link

I'm completely fine with people knocking her previous work. She just has never been a great album artist. I do agree she's singing better than ever though.

Hey (Extended Mix), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link

y'all are nuts; i like the vocal on "higher."

might cut the tame impala song by a few minutes, but I like this a lot.

dc, Sunday, 29 May 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

This went longer and deeper than I possibly could've imagined when I clicked the link

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rihannas-bitch-better-have-my-money-expanded-for-freelancers?fbclid=IwAR3q0oyYWF8AlZuey1U6jLKhgyQowL5Z9saN40njtjrxPW98n6QkZ-rnJ0c

Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

feel like i was wrong about this record. i mean i refuse to check my comments upthread but iirc it felt too fragmented and disjointed and also i really hated "woo"? "never ending" still kinda feels like it doesn't do anything and lol @ retroactive dido credit but also whatever. i like the way these songs work together, even and especially when they feel like fragments forced together. "woo" would suck without rihanna but thankfully rihanna is on it, etc.

american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 April 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link

I feel "Woo," and yes the vocal performance is like 95% of it.

I'm already sad about the strong possibility Anti will get bumped from most "best of the decade" lists.

billstevejim, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link

"woo" & "desperado" & "never ending" are not really that great but this is still an amazing record in which nobody really saw the artist's vision until after they mostly agreed it wasn't a good album (guilty as charged)

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link

I wish she'd just replaced Woo with Pose

I wonder how those who aren't into "Woo" feel about "Pose." I hear them as companion tracks -- about equally post-Yeezus and noise-pop. I usually consume Anti with its 3 bonus tracks and ending with "Sex With Me." The abrasive jams feel like a crucial part of makes this record special.

billstevejim, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link

"sex with me" so amazing, but yeah i love all three bonus tracks, they feel indivisible from the record

american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link

Totally agree that Anti is holding up really well. I do still feel like the whole, "she's finally made a great album" response she received from a lot of critics wasn't fair considering how brilliant Rated R is. Good Girl Gone Bad to a lesser extent too.

kitchen person, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link

Great album, and yes, much more of a piece than most of her other albums. Top 10 of the decade for me, for sure. Classic for “Needed Me” alone, what a song. Kudos to her and her team for going with that one as a single so early on in the album campaign* (even if it was perhaps half-heartedly - they had obviously earmarked “Kiss It Better” as the bigger hit). I think hardly anyone saw that song coming - in this (long) thread it’s only mentioned once (neutrally) before it was released as a single. I love how people itt are ever so slowly waking up to its greatness, just like it crept up on me back then.

*as noted in the thread, this decision might have been informed by its strong streaming numbers. A case of the public knows best?

breastcrawl, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link

(And yessss to “Sex With Me” - I discarded it for the longest time because I thought it was just too tacky. I was wrong.)

breastcrawl, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link

Same re: "Sex With Me." Huge creeper.

billstevejim, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

5 years! i think. either today or tmrw.

billstevejim, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link

Album of the decade

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link

feel dumb that this getting bumped actually got my hopes up for the mythical Next Album

rob, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link

Nothing yet, but there's been plenty of Fenty product announcements lol

billstevejim, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link

the best album ever

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link

i continue to be full of shit upthread as i now love "never ending"

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link

such a bizarre & brilliant album... been putting it on again recently. that kid’s mash up of kiss it better & never too much put it back in my head. the four text remix of kiss it better is also great, could almost be a piece of the proper album

i can’t think of many albums where my love for it represents such a 180 from my initial impressions

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 27 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

she has a new… song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospQ06jJe-I

co-written by Tems
for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
will there be more? no idea
she’s in great voice tho if there was any doubt

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 October 2022 06:14 (one year ago) link

It is basically a Tems song, karaoke'd by Rihanna, lol

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 28 October 2022 07:47 (one year ago) link

"First new song in 6 years" is kind of nuts, right?

Indexed, Friday, 28 October 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link

I <3 Tems and this is fine, but I doubt I'll ever play it again

rob, Friday, 28 October 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link

the biggest headscratcher of a rihanna 'comeback' single since "fourfiveseconds" (which i'm still amazed ended up being a proper hit even after the initial hype wore off)

dyl, Friday, 28 October 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link

i like it but yeah i doubt i'll play it again lol. there's a video too that's kinda *makes jerk-off motion* imo. seems like the kind of thing i could come around to if it was played everywhere though.

ꙮ (map), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link

i've grown to really like "fourfiveseconds" lol, maybe i'll eventually grow to like this? good singing, tho it feels like karaoke.

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link

It’s no ‘Kiss It Better’

X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link


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