Yes, I'm happy about Jay-Z! :D

 

So far, in terms of producers, there's two Stargate songs (one written by Ester Dean), one Calvin Harris song, and one Chase & Status song.

 

The title track will be Stargate produced, so as far as I'm aware, this will be the first time ever that Jay-Z will rap on a Stargate beat!! :o

 

It's strange to think that Stargate work for Def Jam/Roc Nation, and produced many of the biggest hits from the record label, but they still haven't done a song with Jay-Z himself yet. :lol:

Every Rihanna album should be blessed with a Drake collaboration. THAT IS ALL.

Edited November 8, 201113 yr by ▲▲▲

I want a Rihanna and Katy Perry collab!! If it's not on Katy's next album I will cut someone.

Actually, scratch that. Rihanna‘s new record, Talk That Talk, is the dirtiest “pop” record we have ever heard. We listened to the entirety of the 11-song album, which will hit stores on Monday, November 21, earlier this afternoon here at our Times Square headquarters and can confirm that everyone in attendance left the room with flushed cheeks after experiencing extensive periods of blushing.

Now, this is not to say that Rihanna has gone out and recorded the female As Nasty As They Wanna Be; it’s not simply a sexually-explicit affair (although, at one point during The-Dream produced track “Birthday Cake,” she does proclaim “I wanna f*** you right now”). Rather, Talk That Talk continues the conversation that Rihanna began with her single “S&M” (off Loud) and, if you’ll pardon the Spinal Tap reference, turns it up to 11. Rihanna and her chief partner-in-crime, songwriter Esther Dean (who either wrote or co-wrote at least five songs on the LP), have put together a record that not only oozes sex, but also revolves almost exclusively around it.

Take the album’s fifth track, “Cockiness,” for example. The Bangladesh-produced banger, which sounds like a vintage-era Neptunes jam, begins with Rihanna telling her lover that “I want you to be my sex slave” and contains the refrain “I love it when you eat it.” It doesn’t stop there; in perhaps the album’s most memorable line, Rihanna demands her subject to “Suck my cockiness / Lick my persuasion.” This line, which got all of the attendees in the room we were in to nervously chuckle, is the kind of line that would’ve got Rihanna called in front of Congress if Tipper Gore were still running the PMRC, and the kind of song that would make even Prince‘s famed protagonist “Darling Nikki” squeal.

It’s not just that track, either. On the Stargate-produced “Roc Me Out,” RiRi complains that “You’re taking too long to get my head on the ground / And my feet in the clouds,” before cooing, “I’ve been a bad girl, daddy.” And during “Watch And Learn,” produced by up-and-comer Hit-Boy, she goes to great lengths to detail how she wants it on the bed, the floor, and the couch, before turning the tables and not-so-subtly instructing that “It’s your turn now / Watch and learn now / Watch and learn how.” Trust us, the things she’s teaching in this song certainly aren’t taught in schools (at least not without a permission slip signed by your parents).

All that being said, this album sounds positively MAMMOTH and will no doubt continue Rihanna’s dominance on the pop charts for at least the next year and change. “Where Have You Been,” which was written by Top 40 formula crackers Dr. Luke and Esther Dean and produced by the hit maker du jour Calvin Harris, will almost certainly be Rihanna’s biggest club smash since “Don’t Stop The Music.” The chorus features a sweeping, trance-ish transition that will bowl over dancefloor denizens in clubs all over the world, and the bass in the song is so monstrous (in a good way!) that it will make you want to trade in your factory-installed car speakers for a top-of-the-line sound system. And we’ve gotten six paragraphs deep into this preview without even mentioning Jay-Z’s guest vocals on the album’s fourth song and title track, “Talk That Talk,” which isn’t quite on the level of “Umbrella,” but is a lock for the Billboard Top Ten whenever Def Jam decides to release it as a single.

And “Drunk On Love”? Oh boy, this one is going to please Williamsburg hipsters to their core. It’s built on a foundation of The XX‘s “Intro,” which gives it instant indie cred, but Stargate smartly takes Jamie XX‘s melody line and transforms the beat into something so massive that your iPod earbuds are almost guaranteed to explode.

While Rihanna’s Talk That Talk isn’t a record that you’re going to want to listen to with the kiddies in the room (at least not sans EARMUFFS!), it’s far and away the most cohesive album that she’s recorded to date. It’s not a concept record, per se, but the thematic consistency of this album’s lyrical content—shout out to Esther Dean, a true freak if we’ve ever heard one!— and the epic soundscapes that Stargate, Calvin Harris and crew have created make this, from start to finish, the most aurally satisfying record of the six full-length albums she has released. It’s got at least five or six singles that have a shot at making a huge impact on the charts (“We Found Love” has already hit #1), and when it’s all said and done, should put Rihanna neck-and-neck in the running with Beyoncé for the most successful female solo artist of her era (not to mention, earning her a plaque next to Madonna in the Hall of Fame for All-Time Most Sexually Provocative Female Solo artists).

TALK THAT TALK TRACKLIST (and partial list of credits)

1. “U The One” (produced by Dr. Luke)

2. “Where Have You Been?” (produced by Calvin Harris, written by Dr. Luke & Esther Dean, )

3. “We Found Love” (produced by Calvin Harris)

4. “Talk That Talk (featuring Jay-Z)” (produced by Stargate, written by Esther Dean)

5. “Cockiness” (produced by Bangladesh)

6. “Birthday Cake” (produced by The-Dream)

7. “We All Want Love” (written by Esther Dean)

8. “Drunk On Love” (produced by Stargate, written by Esther Dean)

9. “Roc Me Out” (produced by Stargate, written by Esther Dean)

10. “Watch And Learn” (produced by Hit-Boy, written by Priscilla Renea)

11. “Farewell” (produced by Big Juice, written by Esther Dean)

[Photo: Getty Images]Tags: Album Previews, Dr. Luke, Esther Dean, Priscilla Renae, Raunch, Suck My Cockiness And Lick My Persuasion, Jay-Z, Rihanna, The-Dream, Calvin Harris, Stargate

 

The review seems very OTT. Not really sure how seriously to take it. :lol: But looking at the actual information in there, really happy to see Rihanna has worked a lot with Ester Dean. She's got another song with Calvin Harris aswell! :o And the fact that there's a song that sounds like The Neptunes makes me very happy. Also, funny that she's been on two The xx samples in the space of a week! :lol:

 

Dr. Luke is VERY hit and miss. He's produced some of the best, and the worst songs in the past couple of years imo. I hope Rihanna has got good songs from him. The last thing I want on her album is another California Gurls/Tik Tok/Dynamite/Hold It Against Me/We R Who We R/Take It Off/Teenage Dream/Last Friday Night clone. But, on the other hand, some of what Dr. Luke has produced in the past couple of years is AMAZING, so lets hope these songs are too.

 

Apparently, You Da One, written by Ester Dean, produced by Dr. Luke, is being released on iTunes on Sunday, and it has dubstep and island influences.

Edited November 10, 201113 yr by Eric_Blob

f*** that's got me so excited for this!

Definitely my most anticipated release of the year and it's out in less than two weeks!!!

album clips:

 

http://www.tunetribe.com/product/rihanna-t...mp;ref=_irf_arp

The build up and marketing online for this album has been incredible.

 

Roc Me Out from the snippets :wub:

Cannot wait for this to leak.

'Birthday Cake' is very Nicki Minaj 'Massive Attack'! AMAZING.

'Farewell' is actually my favourite from them, I love a good Rihanna ballad!

I love it when you eat it.

Dirty bitch.

 

I'm so addicted to the clips. 'Where Have You Been' is ANTHEMIC.

'Drunk On Love' and 'Roc Me Out' sound like stand-outs at the moment too.

I have a feeling this will be the first Rihanna album I will properly LOVE. Hopefully Roc Me Out and Watch N' Learn will improve as they are so far the only two I didn't like.

 

Overall, AMAZING.

Dirty bitch.

 

I'm so addicted to the clips. 'Where Have You Been' is ANTHEMIC.

I see huge similarities to We Found Love. It even feels like the events in that song take place before We Found Love, like it's a two-part saga or something.

'Where Have You Been?' is my favourite from the clips. Can't say any of the others sound particularly great, though I'm sure I'll love them once I've heard them in full.

The one which sounded like 'We Found Love' was my favourite from the clips, although that could've actually been 'We Found Love'; I wasn't really paying that much attention, but there wasn't much great from what I heard.

:o Where are these clips?

Farewell and We All Want Love sound GREAT, the rest not so much.

It sounds mighty generic. I'll pass.

Cockiness, Birthday Cake, Drunk On Love and Farewell sound the best to me, seriously excited for this album :wub:

I can't say I'm even half excited for this as I was for 'Loud'.