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LOUD will be available worldwide on November 16th!
In other news, “Only Girl (In The World)” is no. 1 on the European Hot 100 singles chart!
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Forget the morose tone of Rihanna’s Rated R; her album Loud, due November 16, certainly lives up to its name. A mixture of soft ballads, island party anthems and empowering love songs, Loud may go down as Rihanna’s best album yet.
When MTV News got an early listen of the album, we were treated to six unreleased songs, including Rihanna’s duet with Eminem, “Love the Way You Lie (Part II),” a sequel to their smash single released earlier this year. On the song, Rihanna tells her part of the story. The song opens with just her voice and the piano as she sings, “On the first page of our story, the future seemed so bright/ Then this thing turned so evil.”
When the chorus kicks in, the hook from the original track is bigger and more cinematic than ever before, but it’s Em’s seething anger when he delivers his verse that will have fans going bananas. He raps about the pain she causes him just as much as he causes her, spitting rhymes about trading punches with his lady love.
While “Lie (Part II)” is dark, much of the album is about love and partying. On the Stargate-produced “S&M,” there’s no innuendo when Rihanna sings over a booming beat lyrics like “Sticks and stones may break my bones/ But chains and whips excite me.”
“Cheers” is a party anthem featuring an Avril Lavigne sample from her 2003 song “I’m With You,” but Rihanna turns the ballad on its head with an island-flavored beat.
Going further into embracing her island roots, Rihanna touches on ska and reggae for her song “Man Down,” complete with police sirens and playful synths while singing about shooting a man.
However, Rihanna falls in love on the album too, as evidenced by tracks like “What’s My Name?”
On “Complicated,” Rihanna sings about her playful relationship with her boyfriend. It’s airy and has a house-music vibe. She displays her singing chops on the song, belting out lines like “You’re not easy to love” and “Everything with you is so complicated.” The song is synthy, funky, flirty and bouncy, especially when the beat kicks in midway through.
“California King (Bed)” is a return to power-pop ballads for the singer. She sounds lovely on the breakup track, showing her soft side with lines like, “Chest to chest, nose to nose, palm to palm, we was always just that close,” but as it turns out, the pair have certainly grown apart.
Rihanna stepped out in New York City on Wednesday to sign copies of her new photography book, Rihanna, and she dished on her pal Katy Perry‘s wedding.
Rihanna wasn’t able to make it to Katy and Russell Brand’s wedding, which was held last weekend in India, but she tells ET, “We’ve been texting each other.” She pointed out, however, “Ever since she’s been there it’s been no text messages because there’s no service out there.”
Rihanna may not have been able to travel to the other side of the world to cheer her friend on, but she did make time to buy a gift. “I got her a really, really cool gift, but I’ll let her tell you about that,” Rihanna dished, keeping the fabulous present to herself.
The pop star says that fans can look forward to seeing fabulous behind-the-scenes photos in her new photography tome, and she tells ET that seeing the photos reminded her of memories she had forgotten!
And when it comes to her upcoming album, Loud, she enthused.
“It’s really incredible, I love it and I think this is my favorite album of all.”
“The thing I can appreciate the most, is the colors, you know, it’s not one sound, it’s not all uptempo, and it’s not all ballads, you know it’s a really really great mixture of midtempo [songs and] uptempo [songs], but every song has its own topic and sound to it,” she explained.
Rihanna, photographed and conceptualized by Simon Henwood with a foreword by Alexandre Vauthier, is available in bookstores now, while Loud will be released on November 16.
Kanye West premiered his “Runaway” short-film on MTV last night. The 35-minute footage soundtrack features five songs from the rapper’s upcoming CD, including “All of the Lights” (feat. Rihanna) at the 7:25 mark.
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“Turn off the lights in here, baby. Extra bright, I want ya’ll to see this. Turn off the lights in here, baby. You know what I need? Want you to see everything, want you to see everything. Turn off the lights, fast cars, shooting stars. If you want it, you can get it for the rest of your life.”
Thoughts??
Check out the official track list for “Loud”:
1. S&M
2. What’s My Name? Feat. Drake
3. Cheers (Drink To That)
4. Fading
5. Only Girl (In The World)
6. California King Bed
7. Man Down
8. Raining Men Feat. Nicki Minaj
9. Complicated
10. Skin
11. Love The Way You Lie (Part II) Feat. Eminem
- Rihanna told London’s 95.8 Capital FM that there would be a balled called “Straight Up Beautiful” on the album. Maybe the song title has been changed.
The average American girl might spend summer camp trying to accessorize her lame crewneck tee or crushing on the boy two cabins down, but it didn’t go down like that for Rihanna and childhood friend-turned-singer Shontelle. Far from deconstructing T-shirts or penning gushy love notes, the Barbados-born singers were busy working up a sweat.
“Just picture Rihanna’s ‘Hard’ video,” Shontelle joked to MTV News, comparing their camp experience to the combat-inspired clip. “Picture both of us being that G.”
While Rihanna is currently prepping Loud and Shontelle dropped her sophomore LP last month, the future stars were once enrolled in a boot-camp-style cadets program on the lush island — though apparently the two didn’t share equal rank.
“I was the drill sergeant,” the 25-year-old informed us. “And yes, I did give [Rihanna] push-ups. I have given her push-ups.”
The Caribbean crooners can “laugh about it now,” and as if to offer further proof that there aren’t any lingering hard feelings, Shontelle said she recently caught a show on Rihanna’s Last Girl on Earth Tour “and we got in the studio. So there’s actually a track that we worked on together that’s gonna be on Loud.”
The “Impossible” singer confirmed widely circulated rumors that her fellow Bajan’s fifth album will revive pre-”Russian Roulette” Rihanna.
“Loud is a real contrast from the last album, from Rated R. It’s a lot brighter. … This album is gonna be so much fun, as you can tell just from the first single. It’s just like, ‘Unh, unh la la la,’ “ she explained, letting out the first bar of “Only Girl (In the World).” “That’s pretty much how the whole album sounds. It’s a lot of fun.”
Source: MTV
On the new track “Man Down”:
“When I was writing my part, we were in the studio together, she really works hard. We were at one of her concerts and she literally got straight off the stage, walked right onto the studio bus, and went straight to work.”
The “Impossible” songstress revealed that “Man Down,” which she describes as “very dramatic,” was easy to write based on the duo’s comfort level that came with growing up together.
“It was good because it was like, ‘I know you, I know what you need, I know what you want.’”
Source: ShontelleOnline
Next month Rihanna will release one of the year’s most anticipated albums, Loud, and the singer has a lot of ambitions for it. “It’s really expressive and sassy and flirty,” she tells SPIN. “It’s also blissful and really feminine.”
There’s a lot on the line with this record. Rihanna’s been riding high on the pop charts with her Eminem collaboration “Love the Way You Lie,” while her last album, the platinum-selling Rated R, spawned the massive singles “Rude Boy” and “Hard.”
The singer took a break from finishing the album to give us a sneak peek of four of the edgier songs, including the Avril Lavigne-sampling “Cheers” and the sexually charged “S&M”:
“S&M”:
Rihanna delivers some of her most provocative lyrics on this track, including lines like “Sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me.” But she says people shouldn’t take the sexually charged lyrics too literally. “I don’t think of it in a sexual way, I’m thinking metaphorically,” she says. “It’s more of a thing to say that people can talk….people are going to talk about you, you can’t stop that. You just have to be that strong person and know who you are so that stuff just bounces off. And I thought it was super bad ass.”
“Man Down”:
On this reggae-tinged track, Rihanna delivers graphic lyrics about shooting a man, but it’s not like she’s armed with a glock and gunning down dudes on the street. “The song is about breaking a man’s heart,” Rihanna explains. “It’s a very cleverly written song and what I love about it is that it’s not a lyric you’d normally hear a female singing.” As for the reggae vibe of the record, Rihanna says the music is an echo of her roots. “The vibe is Jamaican and West Indian,” she says. “That’s something that’s close to me.”
“Cheers”:
Rihanna experiments with grungier sounds (heavy guitars, rock beats) on this pub-appropriate anthem, which samples Avril Lavigne’s ballad “I’m With You.” “It’s one of my favorites on the album,” Rihanna says. “It’s a song you would hear in a bar but I think you could also hear it all over pop radio. It’s really grungy and melodic and catchy. And the way the producers sampled Avril — it’s like she’s an instrument. It’s really cool how they combined [the song] with her vocals.”
“What’s My Name”:
Stargate and Ester Dean penned this track, which features guest vocals from Drake. “It’s a really fun flirtatious song,” she says. “It has a youthful energy. And it’s so catchy, like, you can’t get it out of your head.”
On the video front, Rihanna just dropped her latest, “Who’s That Chick,” and the production may be her most over-the-top yet. She teamed up with chip-maker Doritos to produce a “day” and “night” version of the video, which allows the user to toggle back and forth between both versions while the video streams. “It was strange because we had to shoot the exact video twice, the exact same way with the exact same staging and the same choreography,” Rihanna says. “But it was cool to see the dynamics of the set, just to see how much it was contrast. I think it’s very cool.”
Source: SPIN.com
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