Album Review: Talk That Talk – Rihanna

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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