I love what I'm hearing of the album so far. I love Farewell. But honestly, Alex Da Kid is one of my favourite producers (even if a lot of his songs sound the same :lol:), so I'm really happy they worked together again. They should make it tradition that she does one of his ballads at the end of each album. :lol:

 

I'm listening to Talk That Talk atm. I really like it. It's very urban sounding. Although Stargate do re-use parts of their beats in songs a lot. Like this sounds like a mash-up of Black and Yellow, Rude Boy and Till I'm Gone. Not that I'm complaining, it's a great song imo.

 

I can honsetly see Talk That Talk being cherry-picked the most when the album is released (unless You Da One isn't released before then), since it's the title track, and features Jay-Z.

 

Roc Me Out is also very standard Stargate, although I do like it.

Only listened to Drunk on Love so far (apart from the hideous first single), and I really like that one.

Apparently Cockiness has now leaked too (although I don't know where, but surely someone will upload it to Youtube in a few minutes, if you just search for the song, go on "most recently uploaded", and refresh every few minutes, if you're really desperate :lol:).

SUCK MY COCKINESS, LICK MY PERSUASION.

 

BEST. RIHANNA. SONG. EVER.

 

Background guy making weird sounds. *.*

 

The very ending of the song is WORTH DYING FOR.

07 You Da One - unbelievably crap second single choice, total filler moment

08.5 We Found Love - solid but not great in the context of her singles cat

10 Where Have You Been - BEYOND fab

08 Talk That Talk - great production, not much of a hook though

06 Cockiness - not as bad as I expected, still filler

01 Birthday Cake - DIRE

08.5 We All Want Love - so lovely and fresh, old-school Rih

07.5 Drunk On Love

07 Roc Me Out - standard Stargate, bit of a retread

08 Watch n' Learn - super catchy, growing on me even during the first play

09 Farewell - lovely lovely lovely, great melody

 

Overall I think the album is on a similar level with LOUD albeit with less outright highlights.

Cockiness (Love It) is alright-ish probably a 7 :( but it'll probably grow on me. Loving the DIRTYYYYYY lyrics

Not everything has to be a 10. Although according to your review IT DOES.

06 You Da One - it's alright, not something I'll ever chose to listen to though.

03 We Found Love - decent melody, awful production.

02 Where Have You Been - it was going so well until that Godawful breakdown.

07 Talk That Talk - would be better without the rap.

00 Cockiness - the kind of shit I HATE.

-- Birthday Cake

08 We All Want Love - nice melody, nice production, YAY.

09 Drunk On Love

08 Roc Me Out - surprisingly good.

05 Watch n' Learn - it's proper filler.

10 Farewell - AMAZING.

 

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Bangladesh should produce an entire Rihanna album with Drake and Kanye featuring on every other song. YES.

 

This is typical generic filler crap ETC ETC ETC.

But BANGLADESH IS CRAP. I can just about stomach Cockiness but I can't imagine how anybody could want an album full of his tuneless hood crap.

Cockiness is a skipper, so with Birthday Cake & Watch n' Learn it makes three that I don't care for.

 

Where Have You Been is still brill. If she doesn't release it as a single or at least make a video ._.

Not everything has to be a 10. Although according to your review IT DOES.

Sorry, but I was on full stan mode so my review obviously doesn't matter since its biased. :(

 

Once i've spinned the album enough times, then i'll provide a review will 'less 10's'

Oh my lord Birthday Cake!!

Love it so damn much, really hope we get a full version at some point.

 

'Where Have You Been', 'Cockiness' (apart from that hideous Soulja Boy-esque 'yoooooooooooou') and 'Talk That Talk' are other highlights for me atm.

Oh my lord Birthday Cake!!

Love it so damn much, really hope we get a full version at some point.

 

'Where Have You Been', 'Cockiness' (apart from that hideous Soulja Boy-esque 'yoooooooooooou') and 'Talk That Talk' are other highlights for me atm.

I LOVE IT WHEN YOU EAT IT.

 

http://iamkele.com/blog/2011/11/11-11-11/

Digital Spy has the credits listed wrong. Rob Swire is the co-writer, Stargate co-writer and producer.

 

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SUCK MY COCKINESS, LICK MY PERSUASION.

 

BEST. RIHANNA. SONG. EVER.

 

Background guy making weird sounds. *.*

 

The very ending of the song is WORTH DYING FOR.

 

THAT LINE. SO GOOD.

 

Still here mainly for Roc Me Out :wub:

RATE:

We Found Love - 11

You Da One - 3

Farewell - 8

Drunk On Love - 7

Everything else - Meh.

I LOVE IT WHEN YOU EAT IT.

 

http://iamkele.com/blog/2011/11/11-11-11/

:o :o :o

 

EEEEEEEEEEEE.

08 You Da One

07 We Found Love

10 Where Have You Been

08 Talk That Talk

07 Cockiness

06 Birthday Cake

06 We All Want Love

07 Drunk On Love

10 Roc Me Out

06 Watch n' Learn

07 Farewell

 

'Where Have You Been' and 'Roc Me Out' EASILY the best two. Quite like 'Cockiness' for the time being, but I'm sure the novelty will soon wear off. Overall, OK.

'Where Have You Been' is completely STUNNING. In love with it so much, if that's not a single I will cut a bitch!