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An artist experiencing diminishing returns since 2009’s startling reinvention album Rated R – from victim to victorious in one long-player – Rihanna’s latest can’t stop the rot that set in with the mixed messages of 2010’s Loud. Not that said set was poor – it just failed to match the pop highs of the Umbrella-packing Good Girl Gone Bad and Rated R’s darker tones. The tracks of sixth LP Talk That Talk make a lot of noise but move lethargically – familiar tropes surface in the lyrical content (sexy times being the core focus), and musically it’s a smorgasbord of European dance trends and contemporary RnB production, showy but soulless. Of course there are ballads, too – but after all the saucy front, the slowies feel utterly blunted.
The album begins at a low, the staccato vocal hooks of You Da One irritating rather than engaging. The squelchy, buzzing Where Have You Been is one of two productions from Calvin Harris – indicative of the mainstream dance scene of the UK and Europe making steady progression into the US RnB market. It’s an inoffensive pairing of building beats and sliced-and-diced vocals: to the right feet on the right dancefloor it’ll be manna itself manifested as an arms-in-the-air clubbing highlight. The second Harris hook-up, We Found Love, swells with fevered keys until it explodes, blinding neon like, all over its frenetic, repetitive chorus. It’s by-numbers fare from Harris, given edge by a quite deliberately provocative music video – just the 47 million YouTube views since mid-October.
A forgettable vocal from Jay-Z on the title-track foreshadows an awful exercise in quasi-erotic wordplay on Cockiness (Love It) and a wholly pointless minute-something in the company of star producer The-Dream, wasted on the boring profanities of Birthday Cake. At its halfway mark Talk That Talk takes a turn for the downbeat, the Beyoncé-style paean to perfect monogamy We All Want Love sitting awkwardly beside questionable sexual morals presented by earlier cuts. And Drunk on Love, for the second time in as many weeks release-wise after Rihanna’s guest slot on Drake’s Take Care, matches the Barbadian singer with a Jamie xx (Smith) production, the backing a slightly tweaked take on The xx’s Intro. It feels lazy, an impression that runs the course of this collection, which never convinces the listener that the artist on its cover is fully committed to the cause. On the commercial dubstep rumble of bonus track Red Lipstick, produced by Chase & Status, she sounds as if she phoned in her (again, drearily sexual) vocal five minutes after waking up.
In the recent past Rihanna exhibited a cool nonchalance; here, she’s trapped between playing the characters of a ruthless dominatrix and a docile sort willing to be putty in a boy’s hands. If the real Rihanna doesn’t stand up for her seventh LP, one has to wonder if she’ll ever find herself again.
--Mike Diver
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Talk That Talk is the sixth studio album from Bajan superstar Rihanna, the follow-up to the phenomenal success of 2010's Loud. The album includes the single "We Found Love" featuring Calvin Harris (Rihanna's sixth UK Number 1 in five consecutive years, a record unequalled by any other female solo artist), as well as "You Da One" and the Jay-Z-featuring title track.
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38 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Please note there are FOUR versions of this album. Deluxe clean, normal clean, Deluxe explicit and normal explicit. Make sure you purchase the right one because the explicit are very sexually explicit and do not leave much to the imagination. Go on Youtube and listen to the album before you buy it so you won't end up being dissapointed and giving it a one star!
All I can say is that I have been on Youtube all day listening to this album and, I bloomin Love it. It may not be for everyone but I like it alot (jim Carey stylie). I will be buying the Deluxe edition because Do Ya Thing is too good to miss. My Favourite songs are
1.You Da One
2.Where Have You Been
3.Talk That Talk
4.Cockiness
5.Birthday Cake
6.Watch n Learn
7.Red Lipstick
8.Farewell
In fact, I think I just love the whole album. PS I still love Loud and think it is a Brilliant album, Talk That Talk is just different, and brilliant ha ha! Love ya Rihanna Keep Doin Ya Thing Girl, You Da One I Think About All Dayyyyyyyyyyy!!!
All I can say is that I have been on Youtube all day listening to this album and, I bloomin Love it. It may not be for everyone but I like it alot (jim Carey stylie). I will be buying the Deluxe edition because Do Ya Thing is too good to miss. My Favourite songs are
1.You Da One
2.Where Have You Been
3.Talk That Talk
4.Cockiness
5.Birthday Cake
6.Watch n Learn
7.Red Lipstick
8.Farewell
In fact, I think I just love the whole album. PS I still love Loud and think it is a Brilliant album, Talk That Talk is just different, and brilliant ha ha! Love ya Rihanna Keep Doin Ya Thing Girl, You Da One I Think About All Dayyyyyyyyyyy!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This Rihanna's album is so brilliant, I love it and if I could I would buy it again. There are songs that I got really attached to because they are like a story... Although there are some dirty songs which is predictable when buying Rihanna's album....
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is definitely Rihanna's best album, i love it so much i seriously can't stop listening to it!! :) I would recommend getting the deluxe edition though because there are three more amazing songs to listen to on that album. Overall, fantastic album and good delivery service too :)
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To love or not
Quite deceived when listening for the first time - it sounded too much like "Loud", but with less hits -, I must admit that it grew better with time. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Brasil404
Ok, but...
I waited quite a while to buy this cd and the cd is fine, but what bothers me is, that the second track begins at the end of the first track, which is annoying if listening in a... Read more
Published 28 days ago by Anna J
Could Have Been Great.
But as with Loud not enough time was given to creating it and it ends up feeling rushed halfhearted and lazy. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Julia Havard
"I love the way you touch meeee"
As you've probably guessed, the album does have explicit content, but please don't let it put you off this little marvel. Read more
Published 1 month ago by CSH
Beware of Hiden meanings in the lyrics
Rihanna has an individual voice and when her Caribbean accent shines through on tracks such as 'Cockiness' I enjoy it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Isis
Sixth album and still going strong
Whilst she may dismay some out there I have to confess- I am a huge rihanna fan. And I think there are few out there who don't like even 1 of her songs (although they may never... Read more
Published 2 months ago by SophieA
Just Amazing...!!!
Six albums in six years!!! This is just Amazing:))) All the songs is incredible and different... First i bought the standart edition but after when i realise how fantastic is the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jim Mitsopoulos
Blah, blah, blah...
The impressive list of song writers for TALK THAT TALK includes Jay-Z, P Diddy, Calvin Harris, Ester Dean, Lukasz Gottwald, John Hill, Baria Qureshi, Romy Croft, Oliver Sim, Jamie... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Amanda
How can you review something you never received
Well, I'd like to say how good the service was - having bought stuff via Amazon but on this occasion I can't because I never received this Rihanna album. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. B. J. Weatherup
Whats it like ? So bad.
Total mind-numbing rubbish. She can't sing, or make a half-decent song. Honestly man, soooo bad. Shoulda stuck to singing about cars and umbrellas.
Published 2 months ago by R
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