Cold Case Love is epic.

09 Mad House :: Such an epic intro to an album imo

09 Wait Your Turn :: Really loove the chorus :wub:

10 Hard :: Really love how heavy the backing is :wub:

07 Stupid In Love :: Think I'll grow to love this.

06 Rockstar 101 :: Not overly keen on this, possibly

10 Russian Roulette :: DEFINATELY the best song on the album. Incredible :wub:

06 Fire Bomb :: Again, not loving this that much.

08 Rude Boy :: Really didn't like this on first listen, certainly grown on me :wub:

07 Photographs :: Nice enough!

10 G4L :: Simply amaze :wub:! Something about it I lovee.

09 Te Amo :: Gorgeous

10 Cold Case Love :: Absolutely amazing, especially the end :wub:

08 The Last Song :: Very good too.

 

10 Hole In My Head :: Amaze.

I was hoping my album would arrive today, but it didn't which was weird since the lady gaga album that was sent at the same time has arrived today. :blink:

oh well, another day to wait. :(

I have heard clips of the songs on itunes. Some of the tracks sound good but overall a much darker feel to the album and less pop orientated than her last album.

I really love about 8 songs on the album.

I only dislike 'G4L' and 'Rockstar 101'.

What!?!?!?! Both of those are in my Top 5 with G4l almost #1 :o

'Rockstar 101' is amaze :wub: My least favourite is 'Photographs'. But other than that I love them all :mellow:

'Fire Bomb' my favourite, hopefully a single. For me, it's like the older, cooler, better looking brother of "Rehab"!

I just wanna set you on fire,

So I won't have to burn alone,

Then you,

Then you'll know where, I'm c o m i n g f r o m,

F i r e B o m b

Yeah 'Fire Bomb' is immense. :wub: Deffo one of my faves I think.

Yeah. It's my favourite without doubt. It's the closest we'll get to anything on GGGB anyway :lol:

I'll probably get shtick for this, but I'd have loved 'Fire Bomb' to have been the lead single (if she had to go with a ballad).

okay, here's what I think, in order of best to worst:

 

01: russian roulette - 10/10 best on the album. perfect choice for first single as it's such a grower.

02: fire bomb - 10/10 while 'russian roulette' is a grower, this is just fantastic anyway. so different to anything else she's done.

03: te amo - 9.5/10 this is also such an amazing ballad.

04: hard - 9/10 probably her best collabaration. which says something because when she collabarates with a rapper it's awful (see 'run this town').

05: stupid in love - 9/10 another amazing ballad. brilliant lyrics.

06: rude boy - 8/10 this is a good urban toon as well.

07: G4L - 8/10 hmm, well there are better songs than this on the album but it's good.

08: wait your turn - 8/10 basically the same as the 'G4L' comment, I like it but not as good as some others. hope it's not second single though...

09: mad house - 8/10 kind of offputting that it's just a 1 minute intro to the album, but I still like it.

10: rockstar 101 - 8/10 this is good.

11: cold case love - 7.5/10 hmm, I like it and how it changes throughout the song, but I see it a little too slow.

12: the last song - 7/10 same as above really, just a tiny bit dull.

13: photographs - 7/10 erm, I must have missed will's parts? thought a collabaration witht he two of them would have been better than this but it's not really, kind of sounds like cheryl cole's '3 word's which also has will. hmm...

 

fantastic album. worth the wait.

06 Mad House

09 Wait Your Turn

09 Hard

06 Stupid In Love

07 Rockstar 101

08 Russian Roulette

10 Fire Bomb

07 Rude Boy

05 Photographs

07 G4L

08 Te Amo

06 Cold Case Love

07 The Last Song

 

Bolded favourites.

 

I really didn't think she'd be able to do it - but she nailed it. After what must have been so much pressure, to follow up to what was one of the biggest albums of the last two years (Good Girl Gone Bad), she's done better than I could have hoped for. My favourite track on the album is "Fire Bomb" which is fast becoming one of my favourite Rihanna songs EVER. I really hope it's her next single. "Hard" and "Wait Your Turn" are great up-tempo numbers and obviously, "Russian Roulette", whilst being far from the best on the album, is utterly beautiful. "Rated R" is her most adventurous work yet.

 

4/5

Edited November 24, 200915 yr by Slowpoke

It's flopping in the US. :')

 

It's a bit sad to see because I do quite like her, but this album is weak. Definitely saw it coming. She could turn things around a bit with a radio edit of Cold Case Love. Maybe.

Predicted 175k in US. Dire :(

Is anyone else thinking a swift re-release by early summer with some more commerical-sounding tunes in an attempt to save this era?

 

She's got some lovely songs on there, but they're all very dark and emotional; something that will be quite hit or miss with the public and it seems that its missing judging by 'Russian Roullette.' I pray that 'Hard' can do something for the album.

Oh dear. :( Maybe this is her 'My December' after all. It'll still go down as a fan favourite I should imagine when she most likely returns with a more commercial sounding album.

Predicted 175k in US. Dire :(

 

 

Isn't that what GGGB sold in it's first week? :unsure: