Rihanna’s new record is bolder
and braver!
She has finally moved-on on her
previous self battle against troubled relationship with Chris Brown. Her past
albums Rated R and Loud are distincssively influenced by her previous hitch. A
renewed Rihanna has arise in this album, Talk That Talk.
I would agree to many reviews and
critics that her sixth album is her firmest and most promising yet –
relentlessly catching and danceable pop album. Rihanna is 100 percent back on
its original root – Pop/Rnb. With my previous review with her album Loud, I mentioned that it was a variety
of genres in one pack. But with this new package, Talk That Talk is pure pop/rnb!
This album has perfect pop songs
and delivering the set of which Rihanna was original made of. This distinction
was become her calling card and weapon for the last five years of her career,
and becoming the fastest solo artist to have 20 top 10 singles on Billboard Hot
100. This album could have been the start of RiRi’s evanescence back to
contemporary pop and rnb.
Album Cover
The album cover of this record
has two versions – colored and grayscaled.
In the colored cover Rihanna looks seductive in the image, with her red lipstick and
tounge slip and she is wearing a commouflaged top. In the alternate cover, she out
a puff of smoke in her mouth and is shot in grayscale. Rihanna billowing
smoke out of her mouth whilst staring into the camera with "piercing eyes".
Tracks
The
album begins at a low down, the staccato vocal hooks of You Da One smooth rather than engaging. The wet, buzzing Where Have You Been is one of two productions from
Calvin Harris – analytical of the
mainstream dance scene of the UK and Europe making stable sequence into the US
RnB market. It’s an inoffensive pairing of building beats and sliced-and-diced
vocals: to the right feet on the right dancefloor it’ll be manna itself
manifested as an arms-in-the-air clubbing highlight. The second Harris hook-up,
We Found Love, swells with fevered keys until it
explodes, blinding neon like, all over its frenetic, repetitive chorus. It’s
by-numbers fare from Harris, given edge by a quite deliberately provocative
music video – just the 47 million YouTube views since mid-October.
A
vocal from Jay Z on the title-track indicate an awful
exercise in quasi-erotic wordplay, on Cockiness (Love
It) and a wholly pointless minute, although the beats and the rhytm are
so addictive. At its halfway mark Talk That Talk takes a turn for the downbeat,
the Beyonce style paean to perfect monogamy We All Want
Love sitting awkwardly beside questionable sexual morals presented by
earlier cuts.
The album’s principal themes are Love and Sex – with a less-heavy hand –
like Roc Me Out:
"I'll let you in on a dirty secret/ I just want to be loved." Drunk on Love is my
favorite track wherein she describes being so much in love to being drunk and
sober. Watch
n’ Learn,
which has flickers of Beyoncé’s recent “Party,” has good mouth feel but no
taste. And Farewell, the most bombastic
one here, it’s tough to tell if the words have feeling, because Rihanna’s voice
doesn’t.
In the
recent past Rihanna show a cool dispassion; here, she’s trapped between playing
the characters of a ruthless dominatrix and a passive sort willing to be putty
in a boy’s hands. Im sure that her sevent album is the rise of the real
Rihanna.
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