When people say it's awful/horrendous... what did you want? I've had my fill of Rihanna head shots for album covers, so this makes a nice change.

 

Originally Rihanna's tweet said "look out for the black text". I wonder if they'll re-do the album cover now that 'Unapologetic' is actually the title, rather than 'Side Effects'? :unsure:

Tracklist, not including features:

 

Standard edition:

 

1. Fresh Off The Runway

2. Diamonds

3. Numb

4. Pour It Up

5. Loveeeeeee Song

6. Jump

7. Right Now

8. What Now

9. Stay

10. Nobodys Business

11. Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary

12. Get It Over With

13. No Love Allowed

14. Lost In Paradise

 

Deluxe Edition:

 

15. Half Of Me

16. Diamonds (Dave Aude 100 Extended)

17. Diamonds (Gregor Salto Downtempo Remix)

Bonus DVD, never-before-released footage and Rihanna’s Loud Tour recorded live at London’s O2 Arena (20 mins)

'Loveeeeeee Song'? Cringe.

 

'Right Now' followed by 'What Now' is also a bit eh but I don't think I ever see a tracklist these days with titles that I consider to be really good. :lol:

Rihanna should definitely release a 'Love' compilation on Valentine's Day.

 

01. We Found Love

02. Hate That I Love You

03. Cockiness (Love It)

04. Crazy Little Thing Called Love

05. Stupid in Love

06. We All Want Love

07. Fool in Love

08. Drunk on Love

09. Cold Case Love

10. You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)

11. Loveeeeeee Song

12. Love Without Tragedy

13. No Love Allowed

14. Love the Way You Lie (Part II)

Edited November 4, 201212 yr by Marina Hurts

'Numb' features Eminem and 'Nobody's Business' features Chris Brown.

'Stay' apparently features someone who's been tipped for big things in 2013, Mikky Ekko.

'Numb' features Eminem and 'Nobody's Business' features Chris Brown.

 

Ooh. I did hear the latter rumoured when the titles were announced, that should be..interesting..

 

Another Eminem collab, can't wait for that one. :D Hopefully it's as good as LTWYL.

Clips!

 

http://soundcloud.com/sebastiaomota/sets

Getting Beyonce - Diva vibes from Phreah Out The Runway!

 

Anyway, the second half sounds MUCH stronger - a lot the first half sounds like Rated R/Talk That Talk filler... Hopefully the full songs are better.

Edited November 6, 201212 yr by Liаm

'Numb' sounds far too repetitive. 'Right Now' and the Chris Brown track sounded like they have potential but the clips aren't getting me that excited.

I'm going to listen to the clips in a bit! I'm quite excited, some of the producers she's been working with are very promising.

 

I've only listened to the David Guetta and Chris Brown songs so far. I think the latter should be the 2nd single. I feel like those sorts of songs are making a bit more of a comeback. It's a dance tune with that bright, mellow, minimal-ish sound leaning towards songs like Latch, Benediction, Au Seve, etc.

 

The Eminem song sounds amazing! I'm so excited to hear his verse on it. I'm so pleased with how it sounds, I was worried it'd be another ballad.

 

Lost in Paradise sounds good. It sounds like a grower to me.

 

Fresh Out the Runway. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Soooooo catchy. It's bad to use as the first track on the album though, since people will just get stuck on repeating it for ages.

 

Love Without Tragedy sounds brilliant aswell. Another song that sounds like a grower.

 

Loveeeeeeeeeeeeee Song sounds fantastic aswell. I was expecting it to be a gimmicky song with that title, but it's proper good!! :o

 

Half of Me sounds very beautiful. You can tell it's Naughty Boy/Emeli Sande. :wub:

 

Pour It Up is BRILLIANT. But it has pretty much the same instrumental as No Lie by 2 Chainz/Drake. Jump sounds amazing too!!! Definitely one of the best of the snippets. :D

 

What Now is also very, very good. The verses sound like a Ne-Yo song from the mid-00's, but the chorus obviously, um, doesn't. :lol:

 

Stay is like Love the Way You Lie, Part II with the guitar and drums taken out.

 

Get It Over With is really good, although the less likely on the album to be a single. No Love Allowed is very catchy and sounds quite cute. :D

Edited November 6, 201212 yr by Eric_Blob

The snippets have been removed but you can listen to them by doing this.

 

Go to iTunes US Store

On top of menu Go to View

Go to Column Browser

Click on Music

Then Pop

Then All

Then Rihanna

Then Unapologetic (Deluxe)

http://rihanna.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObje...istName=Rihanna

 

:wub: my xmas present sorted HAY

It sounds genuinely horrific :(

And this is coming from someone who actually liked 'Talk That Talk'!

 

Loving the sound of 'No Love Allowed' and 'Half of It' and 'Love Without Tragedy' sounds ok but that's about it really. The new David Guetta collab sounds horrendous.

 

'Stay' sounds lovely! It's very 'Beautiful People' by Cher Lloyd. (Don't knock it until you've heard it guys :heehee:)

 

The rest though, nothing is really appealing to me... I dunno. It's just not feeling like a proper Rihanna album, more a collection of B-Sides/rejects & demos...

eeeek not sure whether to listen to the snippets... i've not heard great things bout the album (a bit too mixed for my liking!) but if i'm gonna go stanblind for anyone, it'll be riri! (unless she is genuinely awful)

It's not "awful", it's just not good by her (usually high) standards. But they're only clips and we should all know by now that we shouldn't judge an album on clips (even if they are a minute and a half).

Most of the clips sound really good to me. To be honest, it's just the same formula as Good Girl Gone Bad, Loud and Talk That Talk again, two dance-pop songs, and most of the rest urban-pop songs. But there's no reason to change that formula, as long as it keeps being so successful.

 

I think I preferred Talk That Talk though. I was hoping for at least a couple of songs like Roc Me Out, etc. (like the typical Stargate sound), but there haven't really been any on there.

Why couldn't she have just released an EP of 5 songs with Diamonds, Stay, Love Without Tragedy, No Love Allowed and Half Of It? They sound like the only decent ones in this whole album, and everything else seems to range from bad to utterly horrific. I am really thinking this bitch needs to take a good 2 or 3 years out and remember how to make a reasonable album again.

Apparently the Guetta collab and Lost in Paradise seem to have leaked already!

 

Both not that special :(

Edited November 7, 201212 yr by Conderella