What quality is the leak? I want to hear the album, but I'd more than happily wait if the quality is poor.

It's HQ (the one I have is anyway!).

07.0 'You Da One'

06.0 'Where Have You Been'

10.0 'We Found Love' (feat. Calvin Harris)

08.0 'Talk That Talk' (feat. Jay-Z)

06.0 'Cockiness (Love It)'

06.5 'Birthday Cake'

08.5 'We All Want Love'

08.0 'Drunk On Love'

07.5 'Roc Me Out'

06.5 'Watch N' Learn'

09.0 'Farewell'

 

'Farewell' is the answer back to 'Fire Bomb'! Absolutely beautiful! :wub: Overall though. It's the weakest of her 4 albums since she properly "made it" (i.e. GGGB). But that's only one listen through and it's a good album. I just don't "love" it yet. Not getting the love for 'Where Have You Been' yet, either. But hopefully it'll grow.

 

What am I saying. Of course it'll grow, it's RiRi! :wub:

HQ? I don't think there's HQ anywhere. Bitrate of the leak is 128.

HQ? I don't think there's HQ anywhere. Bitrate of the leak is 128.

Well it's not CDQ, it's high enough quality though.

It's leaked?

 

Oh God, *looks at date* Can I hold out until the CD arrives? Can I (read: can't be bothered to go looking for a link, even though I really want this)?

 

Will have to consider this. 9 days to go...

It's leaked?

 

Oh God, *looks at date* Can I hold out until the CD arrives? Can I (read: can't be bothered to go looking for a link, even though I really want this)?

 

Will have to consider this. 9 days to go...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsaxkvVR041r2fsnlo1_cover.jpg

First listen rate:

 

10.0 You Da One

10.0 Where Have You Been?

09.0 We Found Love (ft. Calvin Harris)

09.0 Talk That Talk (ft. Jay-Z)

08.5 Cockiness (Love It)

07.0 Birthday Cake (would be higher if it was longer!)

07.5 We All Want Love

08.0 Drunk On Love

09.5 Roc Me Out

05.5 Watch N Learn

10.0 Farewell

 

Overall I love it! Watch N Learn is definitely filler though, and I'd rank it below Loud and Rated R, though I'd not be shocked to see it overtake the latter :o I'd rank the album thus:

 

01 Where Have You Been?

02 Farewell

03 You Da One

04 Roc Me Out

05 We Found Love

06 Cockiness (Love It)

07 Talk That Talk

08 Drunk On Love

09 We All Want Love

10 Birthday Cake

11 Watch N Learn

R8 TIME

 

08.0 You Da One

10.0 Where Have You Been

09.0 We Found Love (ft. Calvin Harris)

08.5 Talk That Talk (ft. Jay-Z)

10.0 Cockiness (Love It)

08.5 Birthday Cake

10.0 We All Want Love

09.0 Drunk On Love

06.0 Roc Me Out

05.0 Watch N Learn

06.5 Farewell

Edited November 12, 201113 yr by Conderella

What the FUCK is this *_* shit people are using these days?! It's *.* and that's the NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS.

 

Anyway, that aside I need to let this album settle but it's NO Loud/Rated R :(

Where Have You Been is EPIC! This album is really good from the song I've heard so far :D

I love the title track. :wub:

Duuurty.

 

 

Not as many stand out tracks compared to 'Loud'. Loving it though. 'Birthday Cake' is a major WTF moment though.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsaxkvVR041r2fsnlo1_cover.jpg

 

This is but a taster of the terror that will be unleashed when Alexis' second album is released.

 

Must... resist...

I've come to the conclusion that this is overall a FAR better album than 'Loud'. Not quite 'Rated R' standard but I'm seriously loving it at the moment and it's definitely my second favourite album of hers. Currently on repeat alongside Drake's 'Take Care'.

 

'Talk That Talk' is quickly becoming one of my favourites on the album. Jay-Z & Rihanna work so damn well together.

Edited November 13, 201113 yr by Cremey

I've come to the conclusion that this is overall a FAR better album than 'Loud'. Not quite 'Rated R' standard but I'm seriously loving it at the moment and it's definitely my second favourite album of hers. Currently on repeat alongside Drake's 'Take Care'.

 

'Talk That Talk' is quickly becoming one of my favourites on the album. Jay-Z & Rihanna work so damn well together.

I don't even need to post now since you basically say everything I want to say. :D

The album is growing at quite a pace but it's held back by the fact that there are only about two or three huge standouts. LOUD had more despite being patchy and so did Rated R.

 

The album is actually growing on me quite quickly too now, I found Loud far more instant though but then that had the two singles and LTWYL part II to ease me in whereas I only knew one song on here beforehand. It also lacks anything as excellent as What's My Name but is overall quite high quality and consistent. Rate after a couple of listens;

 

08.5 'You Da One'

09.0 'Where Have You Been'

09.5 'We Found Love' (feat. Calvin Harris)

08.5 'Talk That Talk' (feat. Jay-Z)

08.0 'Cockiness (Love It)'

07.5 'Birthday Cake'

08.5 'We All Want Love'

08.5 'Drunk On Love'

08.0 'Roc Me Out'

07.0 'Watch N' Learn'

09.5 'Farewell'

 

Looking forward to the bonus tracks! Can't see it overtaking the previous three albums in my affections but then I'd count all of those in my all time top 100, might overtake Good Girl Gone Bad.

Cant wait for release!

05 'You Da One'

07 'Where Have You Been'

09 'We Found Love'

06 'Talk That Talk'

05 'Cockiness (Love It)'

03 'Birthday Cake'

01 'We All Want Love'

06 'Drunk on Love'

03 'Roc Me Out'

04 'Watch N' Learn'

03 'Farewell'

 

The album is the pretty much the definition of average. 'Roc Me Out' has been done to death now, 'Cockiness' is cringeworthy and I usually like Bangladesh productions, 'Drunk on Love' somehow makes The xx generic and uninteresting. I felt like 'You Da One' was beneath her but after listing to the album... Maybe not. This really could be anyone, non? 'Loud' was obviously more patchy but this is consistent purely because everything is rather dull.