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[Blood Diamonds]

God-tier:
Consideration
Yeah, I Said It
Same Ol' Mistakes
Never Ending

Amazing-tier:
James Joint
Kiss It Better
Love On The Brain
Close To You

Good-tier:
Higher

Shit-tier garbage that was done in a week to fill out the album so that she could release it:
Work
Desperado
Woo
Needed Me

 

[Floridian]

WOO's production is making me feel some type of way also.

 

[Vazra]

God-tier:
Consideration
Yeah, I Said It
Same Ol' Mistakes
Never Ending

Amazing-tier:
James Joint
Kiss It Better
Love On The Brain
Close To You

Good-tier:
Higher

Shit-tier garbage that was done in a week to fill out the album so that she could release it:
Work
Desperado
Woo
Needed Me

The album with the least Filler tracks.

WOO's production is making me feel some type of way also.

Woo feels weird at the start but after that it punches.

 

[You Know Nothing]

Needed Me is all right... for a DJ Sweet Pickle Relish song.

 

[Touchdown]

I just got home! What's it sound like? Pull through Rih!

edit: oh the album is out?? a;lkj;l aaah its been leaked

 

[Blood Diamonds]

Consideration is the best fucking song on the album

 

[Floridian]

This is Rhat's best album. Done. It makes Unapologetic look like uninspired shit

 

[You Know Nothing]

WOO's production is making me feel some type of way also.

Yeah, it has a very rough, drug addled sound to it.

Real Music™

 

[Floridian]

The GROWTH from Music of the fucking Sun to ANTi is SO evident it hurts.

 

[Via Purifico]

This is Rhat's best album. Done. It makes Unapologetic look like uninspired shit

To be fucking honest.

 

[rhandino]

That moment when your fave finally release but you are too busy to hear her new material.

FUCK!!!

Screaming at this.

"Bey: "Push the button blue. You know you wanna do it. Go head, leak her album."
#Anti #Tidal"

Nooooooooooo

 

[You Know Nothing]

This album is so chill so far. COME THROUGH.

 

[Phreaker]

Oh geez, I figured it would turn into a Pop Emergency. All the links on previous pages either are gone or give errors.

 

[SilentSoldier]

Can't believe I'm missing out on the Rihsurgence. Seems like it was worth the wait.

 

[cory64]

There's not a bad song but nothing is making me BALDT

it's a quality album, end of

 

[Yado]

Something in my spirit is telling me I should just stop at Work

It can only be downhill from here

 

[botty]

We now live in a world where Selena Gomez puts out better albums than Rihanna.

💀

 

[Yado]

I liked Consideration. Desperado is dull and so was James Joint.

 

[Floridian]

We now live in a world where Selena Gomez puts out better albums than Rihanna.

💀

You must've not heard the album in full. If so then your taste is quite questionable. 💀

 

[cory64]

LOTB should have been the lead single

 

[Vazra]

Kiss It Better on February tho.

 

[Yado]

I like Woo. It sounds very Travis Scott-y

 

[Floridian]

I like Woo. It sounds very Travis Scott-y

There's definitely some trap-hip hop inspiration in some of the tracks.

 

[Mau ®]

LOTB should have been the lead single

The vocals she serves. She is talented! I always knew!

 

[Floridian]

The vocals she serves. She is talented! I always knew!

Studio vocals* Let's see how she'll sound on the Tour first. But I will say she definitely has vocally improved somewhat.

 

[Yado]

Needed Me is cute. I use.

 

[botty]

You must've not heard the album in full. If so then your taste is quite questionable. ��

I have heard it in full, and my point still stands. The only thing questionable is why Rihanna covered a song by Tame Impala and literally added nothing to it.

I know you guys are excited by new music, but if this is y'all girl, then yikes! There's not a single smash to be found.


edit: I am wrong, Kiss It Better is a good song.

 

[Floridian]

I have heard it in full, and my point still stands. The only thing questionable is why Rihanna covered a song by Tame Impala and literally added nothing to it.

I know you guys are excited by new music, but if this is y'all girl, then yikes! There's not a single smash to be found.

We already know she covered that song & she worked the instrumental just fine.

Work is currently smashing on iTunes & KIB has potential but even then who cares about a smash? This is a quality album from her which is what I wanted. But keep thinking Revival is better with tracks like Body Heat & Me & My Girls on it. All up to subjective opinions I guess.

 

[Mau ®]

Studio vocals* Let's see how she'll sound on the Tour first. But I will say she definitely has vocally improved somewhat.

I feel confident in peformances for ANTi material.

She struggles with old stuff from LOUD and TTT. She generally aces most Unapologetic material and the "new" stuff like FFS and BBHMM.

 

[SilentSoldier]

We now live in a world where Selena Gomez puts out better albums than Rihanna.

💀

Selena's output can't match any of Rihanna's output post GGGB, have several seats.

 

[Phreaker]

I really like Kiss It Better, that should have been the lead single tbh

 

[Yado]

I like yeah, I said it, don't care for same ol' mistakes

Same ol mistakes sounds like straight up album filler ch...where is this song even going

 

[Mau ®]

Revival is a great album tho. Let's not drag Selegend.

 

[Touchdown]

whew, I'm really liking it so far. A true R&B album. It makes BEYONCE sound so try hard. A lot of the songs seem short though.

 

[Nasser]

Kiss it better is the only song I use. The rest is garbage

 

[Yado]

Never Ending sucks

 

[Mau ®]

It should be noted the NVAY knew about a lot these songs from early 2015. I don't think she ever "scrapped" the album per se.

 

[Touchdown]

omg Love On The Brain ... it slays so hard

 

[Courage]

Anti is pretty decent. Might be her best album actually.

 

[Floridian]

Idk why she scrapped A Night though. I was interested in hearing the full song instead of that minute intro. Maybe it'll be on the deluxe.

 

[Yado]

Love On The Brain is ok
I wouldn't listen to it of my own volition, it's not very interesting.Slight filler teas

 

[Yado]

Higher is nothing but an affront to the art form we call music.

I feel personally attacked.

 

[Floridian]

Higher being 2 minutes =x

I expected a full song but I can see she couldn't handle the screeching for that long.

 

[botty]

We already know she covered that song & she worked the instrumental just fine.

Work is currently smashing on iTunes & KIB has potential but even then who cares about a smash? This is a quality album from her which is what I wanted. But keep thinking Revival is better with tracks like Body Heat & Me & My Girls on it. All up to subjective opinions I guess.

It isn't about her covering the song, it's about her literally copying virtually every thing about the original and adding nothing interesting to it. It's lazy.

And do you think the vocal performance on higher is good or suitable for distribution? I would not have released that without auto-tuning it. No shade.


What are you even defining quality as? What about this album makes it synonymous with quality? It can not be the lyrics and I'd find it hard to believe it's the vocals... so then what?

From what i've seen so far, the best thing about the album is that it's "not bad." If you guys enjoy the album that's fine, and really all that matters, but I wouldn't put this above Selena's album and... honestly.. i doubt it will match Revival commercially as far as records sold goes.

 

[Phreaker]

Not Kiss It Better and Needed Me trending on Twitter

 

[Yado]

Close To You is pleasant but boring. I don't really want to hear it again.

So there's like...4/5 good songs on here. Typical Rihanna album.

Also, I have no idea what people are hearing when it comes to Kiss it Better?? It's a very standard pop song with no real identity. Katy Perry could sing it.

 

[Floridian]

It isn't about her covering the song, it's about her literally copying virtually every thing about the original and adding nothing interesting to it. It's lazy.

And do you think the vocal performance on higher is good or suitable for distribution? I would not have released that without auto-tuning it. No shade.


What are you even defining quality as? What about this album makes it synonymous with quality? It can not be the lyrics and I'd find it hard to believe it's the vocals... so then what?

From what i've seen so far, the best thing about the album is that it's "not bad." If you guys enjoy the album that's fine, and really all that matters, but I wouldn't put this above Selena's album and... honestly.. i doubt it will match Revival commercially as far as records sold goes.

For Rihanna's standards, it's quality. It's the production, the album as a whole containing the least filler in her career, her vocal delivery has surpassed her past material. It literally has some of the best songs on it. You may not view it as quality but that's again subjective. and has Revival even reached gold? Rih should have no problem passing that, even with TIDAL's leak incident.

 

[Vazra]

Katy Perry could sing it.

You can only have one of those 2 tho.

For Rihanna's standards, it's quality. It's the production, the album as a whole containing the least filler in her career, her vocal delivery has surpassed her past material. It literally has some of the best songs on it. You may not view it as quality but that's again subjective. and has Revival even reached gold? Rih should have no problem passing that, even with TIDAL's leak incident.

Also the songs being slower it should be easier for her to perform them.

 

[cory64]

Katheryn could NOT sing Kiss It Better

 

[botty]

Also the songs being slower it should be easier for her to perform them.