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'Rated R' // 4th Album

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Really? not for me

Rude Boy is one of my least favourite Rihanna singles ever,

same for Te Amo

  • 4 months later...

I’ve said it so many times in this thread and on this forum but this is definitely her best album as a whole in my opinion.

 

It’s really genius, a bit ahead of its time and the fact she recorded this at such a difficult time in her life and at the age she was too is just remarkable. It’s genuinely one of my favourite albums of all time.

 

I think this was the major turning point for her where she went from pop star to artist! It’s an album what’s aged really well too.

 

I’m gonna relisten later today :wub:

 

So weird to thunk this debuted at #16 in the UK! Imagine a Rihanna album doing that now. At least it eventually went top ten. I remember this come out the same day / week as The Fame Monster as well. My 2009 favourite release week for sure :wub:

I agree completely.

 

This album is stellar and is often overviewed because it didn't produces smashes like her other albums, minus Rude Boy. This album was just so prolific to me especially after the Chris Brown incident and Cold Case Love is just so mesmerising. I view this as her best album and listen to it regularly. The only tracks I'd skip would be Stupid In Love and perhaps Rockstar 101. But otherwise magical.

  • 1 month later...
I always low key thought it was the other way around and that Rih probably wanted other single choices so to hear that shook me!

Yeah I would have expected Rihanna to have fought for 'Wait Your Turn' to be pushed properly. Quite a surprise to think the record company didn't hear the potential in 'Rude Boy'!

Rude Boy's such an obvious single though :drama: Surely the label could've seen that the darker singles approach didn't help the album as it peaked at #4 in the US (which is fine but disappointing after how massive the GGGB era was) and #16 in the UK and seen the pop smash before their eyes. I mean obviously they did in the end but come on x
  • 6 months later...

Just wanted to drop my ranking for this album. It's my favorite album of hers after ANTi.

 

1. Te Amo

2. Russian Roulette

3. Hard

4. g4l

5. Rude Boy

6. Stupid In Love

7. Rockstar 101

8. Cold Case Love

9. Fire Bomb

10. Mad House

11. Wait Your Turn

12. The Last Song

13. Photographs

  • 1 year later...

Not sure why exactly, but "STREAM RATED R BY RIHANNA" is trending on Twitter.

 

Always have the time for this album :wub: What an album.

My favourite Rihanna album, happy to see it's still getting the attention it deserves all these years later.
  • 1 month later...

Such a great album. Most probably her best album for me.

 

"Russian Roulette" was such a serve. I'm so glad it was the lead single. It's a shame it was released during Rihanna's 1 album a year phase. They could've easily gone 6+ singles deep with this album. "Firebomb", "Photographs" and "Stupid In Love" would've been great singles. It's also a crime that "Te Amo" wasn't released to radio in the US. I would've loved the era going something like

 

1. "Russian Roulette"

1.5. "Hard" (US only)

2. "Rude Boy"

3. "Te Amo"

4. "Firebomb"

5. "Photographs"

6. "Stupid In Love"

 

 

05 Mad House

08 Wait Your Turn

08 Hard

06 Stupid In Love

11 Rockstar 101

10 Russian Roulette

10 Fire Bomb

09 Rude Boy

05 Photographs

07 G4L

08 Te Amo

10 Cold Case Love

07 The Last Song

 

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