"ANTI" // 8th Album

January 28, 20169 yr

No physical release, really...that stinks.

January 28, 20169 yr

this album is doing absolutely nothing for me. 'beyoncé' this was DEFINITELY not.

why is tame impala's 'same old mistakes' needed here anyway? they literally just released that track on their last album :/ she adds nothing to it too and it's pretty much the only reason to do a cover.

'love on the brain' makes me want to turn it all off. such garbage. i just can't.

the only songs i remotely like are 'close to you' and 'kiss it better'. that's it really.

basically i haven't heard such a chaotic lp in a long time. please take more time to release next album if it's going to be as inconsistent and un-rihanna. but i guess this was the purpose. too bad it didn't work at all.

watch the entire world loving this and calling rihanna the trendsetter and the voice of generation and all that stupid shit. let's hope not tho

January 28, 20169 yr

i hope 'work' isn't an indicator of what the whole album is like because it's good but very random SC R&B download teas

January 28, 20169 yr

Watch her dub this a "promo album". MESS

January 28, 20169 yr

"Does ANTI stand for anti quality?"

:lol:

Like a clock that ticks anti clockwise, it's Rihanna's music that's going backwards :P

Ooh I hear the album is out and some tracks might actually be decent? :o is there a link as I seem to have read over it if it was posted :P

January 28, 20169 yr

Lol at her giving this away for free, what? Excited to finally have some new Rihanna anyway and I'll get stuck in soon :D

January 28, 20169 yr

I imagine she's giving it out for free so she has an excuse when it performs poorly in the charts :lol:

January 28, 20169 yr

I'm so happy 'Higher' is on there. It's every bit as amazing as the previews suggested. Rest of the album... I'm sure it's nice as a cohesive piece of work and sounds great when you get back from the clubs at 4am but it's not what I want from Rihanna. On the other hand I guess this is more like Rihanna than anything else she's ever done. This is the music that SHE wants to make.

'Close to You' is beautiful.

Edited January 28, 20169 yr by Atonement

January 28, 20169 yr

No physical release...how odd! It's like they're not even bothered how this album does.

Especially given I was just able to download it for free!!

I reckon they said, fuck it and just released it as is, focusing instead on profit from the tour and hoping by it being available digitally and also free or on streaming that it won't damage her brand too much for the next album.

January 28, 20169 yr

Like a clock that ticks anti clockwise, it's Rihanna's music that's going backwards :P

Ooh I hear the album is out and some tracks might actually be decent? :o is there a link as I seem to have read over it if it was posted :P

It's a free download - no, really!

Check the other page for the link.

January 28, 20169 yr

After Work, I wasn't expecting much, but there are some really decent tracks here. 'Kiss it Better' is really good.

January 28, 20169 yr

The 13 track standard album is being given away as a free download (MP3 or FLAC files) here: http://rihanna.tidal.com/redeem/?voucher=ANTI (for a limited time only - "A number of free "Anti" downloads will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, regardless of whether listeners subscribe to Tidal.")

I entered all the information but it just refreshed itself and cleared the text boxes when I clicked on the button :lol:

7 Consideration

5.5 James Joint

7 Kiss It Better

7 Work (this is hard to give a score to, it'll probably be just a 6 after a few listens due to the repetitive and slightly annoying chorus :/)

7 Desperado

6.5 Woo

7 Needed Me

5.5 Yeah I Said It

8 Same Ol' Mistakes

8 Never Ending

7.5 Love On The Brain

7 Higher (she seems to screech a bit in this one which kind of affects my rate for this :( )

8 Close To You

And I might as well do:

6 FourFiveSeconds (Him remix is like a 9 though :lol: I don't hate it as much as I did and the remix has probably helped, lyrics are still lazy tho)

5 Bitch Better Have My Money (Pour It Up is a lot better than this tho)

8 Towards The Sun

7 American Oxygen

Not really the genre I love from Rihanna but there's some tracks that are quite good and most are better than 45S/BBHMM :lol:

January 28, 20169 yr

I thought there was a song that sampled a Florence Welch song?!

The album is cool, it's just missing a big pop song for me. It's like 'TalK That Talk' without WFL or WHYB.

January 28, 20169 yr

OMG SCREEECH TRACK?! :o

January 28, 20169 yr

The album is cool, it's just missing a big pop song for me. It's like 'TalK That Talk' without WFL or WHYB.

Exactly this. It would have been great if it had a couple of those, even if they wouldn't be near as good as those (and if there was then Work wouldn't be the lead single surely :lol: )

OMG SCREEECH TRACK?! :o

No Michael I don't think P!nk is on the album :unsure:

January 28, 20169 yr

while I love that it's free I'm just gutted there's no physical cos that art work is my favvv

January 28, 20169 yr

Why is she doing this. Wot a mess. Giving it away for freem

She better be releasing the real album next week

Edit: This seems to be the reason it is free

[This is familiar territory for Samsung, which has shelled out big bucks before to offer a global superstar’s new album at no cost to fans. A few years ago, the tech giant offered one million free downloads of Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail album to those with a Galaxy-branded phone or tablet. At the time of press, the total number of free downloads that Samsung and Rihanna are offering of ANTI wasn’t available, but for the $25 million that the company reportedly paid to work with the singer, it is surely a fairly high number.

http://nypost.com/2015/10/29/rihanna-inks-...l-with-samsung/