November 22, 20186 yr Just been reading through this thread. The amount of times the album has been pushed back and the amount of times it seems like Rita was over only for her to save it again, then rinse and repeat... Rita is like the luckiest popstar ever and it's incredible to think the album is actually in a position to be a success! Also makes me laugh the amount of people who were pleading for Girls to be released.
November 22, 20186 yr Is Summer Love really the one they’re pushing? 😬 It’s so Rudimental by numbers and didn’t like it when she played it at Big Weekend or when I saw it live :’) Ha Liam, I’ve just had a read back through too, what a journey haha, so glad it’s finally being released. And I still stand by the fact that ‘Girls’ is incredible and should’ve been a huge hit :’(
November 22, 20186 yr Is Summer Love really the one they’re pushing? 😬 And I still stand by the fact that ‘Girls’ is incredible and should’ve been a huge hit :’( This! The problem was timing...as we both said at the time it should've been a Europe only single to bridge the gap between Anywhere and the next single!!
November 22, 20186 yr So Summer Love's studio version is so flat compared to the live version. What a disappointment! It's a very solid pop album and far better than ORA! Cashmere is such a fave as is New Look and Hell of a Life. Keeping Talking is such an interesting collab! In terms of future singles, Cashmere is sfg it NEEDS to be next *.*
November 23, 20186 yr Can’t believe the day has finally come and the album is actually now out :heart: :heart: 6 years we’ve waited for this!! So excited to listen later today my orders coming in the post.
November 23, 20186 yr Surely this album is going to debut at #1 ? Take That will probably beat her. She’ll be ahead on streams but I think she’s probably debuting top 5. Sales wise however she may well sell more than what ORA opened with. I think she could easily top 40K.
November 23, 20186 yr Really liking this album so far, more than Little Mix’s last week (I know they’re wildly different but two hyped up albums coming within two weeks of each other).
November 23, 20186 yr Only Want You is the rightful 5th single. Also love New Look, Hell Of A Life, Velvet Rope and Falling To Pieces also favourites of mine.
November 23, 20186 yr Hell Of A Life, Cashmere, New Look and Soul Survivor are the ones I clicked with on listen one!
November 23, 20186 yr This! The problem was timing...as we both said at the time it should've been a Europe only single to bridge the gap between Anywhere and the next single!!As in until For You impacted everywhere else or until Let You Love Me was released? Wouldn’t work in any case. First scenario is too short of a window and second one... might as well just release it as a WW single.
November 23, 20186 yr Congratulations Rita! On finally being able to release album 2 and it being better than the first! There’s a lot of stand outs! ‘Velvet Rope’, ‘only want you’ and all the singles bae ‘girls’
November 23, 20186 yr Really need Klaus's old "listening to Anti" meme right about now 😭 I'm so happy that this album is finally here! I'm only up to "Summer Love" but it's already FAR better than 'ORA'. Really really proud of Rita for sticking at it and I'm glad that it looks to be a $ucce$$ for her (apart from in the US, of course). Tidal doesn't let me play "Lonely Together", is that a problem on other streaming sites because if so she could be losing loads of streams? 😬
November 23, 20186 yr The album is cute and if she had not released 5 and a half of the best songs already over the past year, and it was a normal release with one or two pre-release singles, a lot less people would be disappointed. Even though the deluxe is a bit of a waste of time, the standard edition is a really solid pop album.
November 23, 20186 yr Are people disappointed though? :unsure: Cashmere and Falling to Pieces are two of the strongest on there so I wouldn’t call the deluxe a waste of time. What a great album, definitely worth the wait. I’ve always thought the album tracks would be very filler compared to the singles but they’re not at all. I even really like Summer Love, which I was expecting to dislike after the live version. Love how chilled it is, perfectly captures that end of summer vibe. I thought it’d be a lot more standard Rudimental but it’s a bit more pared back for them. And yep, same on Apple Music, Theo! Lonely Together is greyed out.
November 23, 20186 yr Are people disappointed though? :unsure: To be fair I copy and pasted my post from popjustice where they’re being incredibly harsh - people on my socials are saying it’s crap too. I think people are forgetting the album already gave us loads of great singles.
November 23, 20186 yr Ah ok! I haven’t seen anything negative but haven’t been on popjustice and don’t follow many people who’d be tweeting about it :lol: It’s got four star reviews in the Independent and the Times so that’s good to see 🙌🏼
November 23, 20186 yr On spotify lonely together isn't blacked out! I def remember listening to that in my listen of Phoenix last nigh
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