Talk That Talk (Deluxe)

Rihanna

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Released on 01/01/2011 by Def Jam Recordings
Main artists: Rihanna
Genre: Pop

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Despite sounding rushed to capitalize on fourth quarter sales, 2010’s Loud proved that Rihanna’s reign indeed would not let up. The album’s first three singles topped the Hot 100. A fourth one merely went Top Ten. Just as Loud was losing its grip, during the fourth quarter of 2011, Rihanna fired again with another number one single, “We Found Love” -- its success more likely due to the singer’s ecstatic vocal than Calvin Harris' shrill, plinky production. While Talk That Talk is built like another singles-chart-devouring machine, it’s both more rounded and less random than Loud. “We Found Love” and “Where Have You Been” -- the latter with a quote from Geoff Mack's “I’ve Been Everywhere” and echoes of the chorus from Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” -- function as place-holding dance tracks, and there are a couple empty anthems and ballads in the drippy “We All Want Love” and the bombastic “Farewell.” It’s the darker and dirty-minded material that tends to be most effective -- where Rihanna is more alive and believable, where her collaborators provide the most adventurous productions. In the Bangladesh-produced “Cockiness (Love It),” one of the most hypnotic and wicked beats of the last decade, Rihanna absolutely relishes the chance to sing-taunt “Suck my cockiness, swallow my persuasion.” Two of Stargate and Esther Dean's three contributions -- the desperate, xx-sampling “Drunk on Love“ (“Nothing can sober me up”) and the prowling “Roc Me Out” -- pack more sleek menace than Rated R's “G4L” and Loud’s “S&M.” The album’s best track, however, is the wholly sweet and flirtatious “Watch n’ Learn,” featuring a dizzying Hit-Boy beat -- rat-a-tat snares, swirling/swelling synthesizers, irresistible plucked melodies -- that is even more unique in the context of 2011 pop radio than his work on Kanye West and Jay-Z's “Ni**as in Paris.” Behind Good Girl Gone Bad and Rated R, this is Rihanna's third best album to date. Minus the fluff, it's close to the latter's equal.

© Andy Kellman /TiVo

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Lukasz Gottwald, ComposerLyricist - Esther Dean, ComposerLyricist - John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robyn Fenty, ComposerLyricist - John Hill, ComposerLyricist - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Luke, Producer - Rihanna, MainArtist - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alejandro Barajas, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Phil Seaford, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Clint Gibbs, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cirkut, Producer - Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Sher, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Sclafani, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jennifer Rosales, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel