Fading could have done a Take A Bow potentially. But it didn't feel like much of a balladesque era for me.

'Fading' is nice and sounded promising from the intro as well. Oh and this outro is neat too!

Only Girl (In The World) is one of Rihanna's signature hits for me, it just sounds great all these years later.

'Only Girl..' grated on me a lot oops. Not bad though but I prefer WMN and a few other singles (and some album tracks) to it!

Fading could have done a Take A Bow potentially. But it didn't feel like much of a balladesque era for me.

Oh but then I forgot about California King Bed. :kink:

Loved Rihanna's red hair era too. Suited her down to the ground!

I thought this started at 9 oops

Raining Men I would quite like a solo version of!

'California King Bed' is a lovely ballad, the guitar in the chorus is underrated I feel. 'Man Down' would've been sensible to push but of course CKB was picked at the same time. Not mad on 'Raining Men' though :P

Man Down is my utter utter favourite.

Raining Men was ok but not the best Rihanna/Nicki collab.

Man Down is my utter utter favourite.

Lewis said the same in the listenthrough, I can see the appeal, and the video was there to make it another big single in the UK.

Complicated sounds nice enough, it is one of the better album tracks.

I quite like pop with hints of reggae anyway so as a casual Rihanna fan it easily bumped it up!

Oh Skin certainly does sound much weaker by comparison. Not a great track this.

'Complicated' has some cool production and was pretty good on the whole too!

From Skin to this majestic album closer, the more superior part II of Love The Way You Lie. Thank you Rihanna for the memories. :wub:

'Skin' I think is the least fave for sure. Very bland.

'Love The Way You Lie Part II' is really stunning. Just as good as the Eminem original hit for me.

My favourite part of this was the beep in the edited version of S&M.