Rated R - Rihanna

After releasing the multi-platinum album Good Girl Gone Bad in 2007, Rihanna was another step closer to cementing her place in music history. Mostly admired for using great fashion designers, and known for who she was dating, Ms Fenty had to bring focus back to the music. A year after the last single from Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna released Rated R amidst talk of her attack by Chris Brown, leaked nude photos, and a 'buzz' single, Wait Your Turn, which failed to set the charts alight. The album attempts to copy Good Girl Gone Bad by featuring sounds from a variety of genres, but they lack the predecessor's consistent spark. The guitar riffs on Fire Bomb are ...  Read the complete review

The singer recently undergone the "Chris Brown Assault", where the singer was abused and sadly beaten to a pulp, then abused again my media takeout, paparazzi and immense amounts of gossip, and here we are months later with Rihanna's fourth studio album, titled Rated R. I first heard these tracks at her Nokia sponsored London concert at Brixton Academy, which was such an amazing concert. She performed several of her new tracks (Russian Roulette, Hard and Wait Your Turn), and a mash of her hits, such as Umbrella and Take A Bow. Having seen the quality of her new album, I just had to get it. ~~~ALBUM COVER~~~ The album cover is a very ...  Read the complete review

The name 'Rihanna' seems to keep getting bigger and bigger; down to both her music and her turbulent personal life. Since the release of 2007's Good Girl Gone Bad it would seem that Rihanna's music career knows no bounds. With the massive hit that was Umbrella it was inevitable that Rihanna was going to have to come back with an album that would stomp that one in the ground, but with such a reputation now on her young shoulders is she capable of coping with the pressure or has she caved with her Rated R album? Up until the release of Good Girl Gone Bad I was a fan of Rihanna's and had previously purchased all her albums but to me she was simply another ...  Read the complete review

Over the last couple of years, I have become quite a fan of Rihanna's. I used to like her music , but wasn't really that fussed on her , but now I can honestly say that she is one of my favourite female artists , alongside , Leona Lewis and Beyonce. For those of you who don't know ,Rihanna ; real name Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20th 1988 in Saint Michael , Barbados. She is currently twenty one years of age. She received her big break in 2003 at the age of fifteen when her friend saw music producer Evan Rogers on vacation in Barbados and introduced Rihanna to him. She made a demo and they sent it off to music producers in America , including ...  Read the complete review

I am a big Rihanna fan and have been from the very beginning when she first stormed the charts with Pon De Replay quite a few years ago now. Now RiRi along with many famous faces has recently become more famous for her private life rather than her music what with the whole "Chris Brown Assault" stories to hit the press earlier this year. So Im sure Rihanna knew she had to pull some amazing music out of the bag for this album if people were going to stop and take notice again and start remembering her as an amazing singer and not a victim and boy she did not disappoint! Some Tracks From The Album + My Opinions: Russian ...  Read the complete review