I love how Rihanna is sampling Whitney's
"My Love Is Your Love" hook on "You Da One"...with the lines
"Your love is my love, my love is your love".
I also love the "Birthday Cake" interlude. Hot!
Go RiRi.
^^^
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Rihanna's Sparkle in Check on Talk That Talk
November 22, 2011
Joey Guerra
Nov. 22--Rihanna, first and foremost, is a pop star. And Talk That Talk, her sixth studio album, is a mostly bright, brisk listen. It clocks in at less than 40 minutes, adorned with ridiculously catchy hooks and A-list production (Dr. Luke, StarGate, Ester Dean). Several songs are encoded into memory after a single listen.
But there's a dark, ominous edge to much of Rihanna's music that tempers the sparkle and makes things all the more interesting. (Talk That Talk is online and in stores this week.) She frequently plays with gender roles, experiments within the framework of mainstream music -- and isn't afraid to get raunchy.
Talk That Talk comes just a year after the neon-fueled blast of Loud and high-profile duets with Nicki Minaj (Fly) and Coldplay (Princess of China). It's all helped push Rihanna into the rarified air of pop superstardom. (Her 11 No. 1 hits have her behind only Madonna and Mariah Carey in terms of females.)
At its best, the record delves into legitimate components of club music while retaining accessibility. Where Have You Been? showcases a fuzzy trance groove, complete with peaks and valleys.
You Da One chugs along a dancehall/dubstep beat while paying lyrical tribute to Whitney Houston's My Love Is Your Love. Minute-long interlude Birthday Cake snakes through suggestive lyrics and a hypnotic beat (and should have been extended into a full song).
Calvin Harris-helmed first single We Found Love has been criticized for making Rihanna's vocal an afterthought. But that actually seems to be the point. The song unfurls steadily, like the emotions being detailed in the lyrics. And the buildup is designed for dance-floor momentum. (It should come with a "Hands in the air" DJ shout-out.)
Cockiness (Love It) is likely to be the album's polarizing moment. It's a little Britney, a little Beyonce, framed by dancehall and hip-hop elements. It's slinky, suggestive, ridiculous and more fun than it probably should be.
Rihanna channels another diva during power ballads We All Want Love and Farewell, which boast Beyonce-size production and sentiment. (Think the flip side of the Sasha Fierce album.) And a few moments -- Roc Me Out, the Mariah-esque Watch N' Learn, the Jay-Z assisted track -- play like standard radio fare and just don't seem to challenge Rihanna the way the rest of the album does.
As with any good pop album, there's a lot of talk about the perils of love. (Rihanna even employs a Chris Brown double in the frenetic clip for We Found Love.) But there are glimmers of hope through the heartbreak.
"I feel like I'm a hopeless romantic/I can't help falling in love," she sings amid the electronic twitches and booming bass of Drunk on Love Rihanna will never make an album full of swooning love songs, but it's nice to know she still believes.
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