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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
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Geoff Mack, ComposerLyricist - Lukasz Gottwald, ComposerLyricist - Esther Dean, ComposerLyricist - Henry Walter, ComposerLyricist - John Hanes, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Serban Ghenea, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Luke, Producer - Rihanna, MainArtist - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Calvin Harris, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Marcos Tovar, 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, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc., Mit freundlicher Genehmigung: Universal Music Group, Inc.
PHIL TAN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rihanna, MainArtist - Calvin Harris, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Damien Lewis, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alejandro Barajas, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc., Mit freundlicher Genehmigung: Universal Music Group, Inc.
Shawn Carter, ComposerLyricist - Tor Erik Hermansen, ComposerLyricist - Mikkel S. Eriksen, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Anthony Best, ComposerLyricist - Carl Thompson, ComposerLyricist - Esther Dean, ComposerLyricist - Miles Walker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rihanna, MainArtist - Sean Combs, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Wallace, ComposerLyricist - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Tobiason, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - StarGate, Producer - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jay Z, FeaturedArtist - Daniela Rivera, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jordan "DJ Swivel" Young, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Shondrae Crawford, ComposerLyricist - Shondraé "Mr. Bangladesh" Crawford, Producer - Robyn Fenty, ComposerLyricist - Fabian Marasciullo, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rihanna, MainArtist - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ghazi Hourani, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Candice Pillay, ComposerLyricist - D. Loernathy, ComposerLyricist - Jennifer Rosales, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Terius Nash, ComposerLyricist - Ernest Clark, ComposerLyricist - Marcos Palacios, ComposerLyricist - Robyn Fenty, ComposerLyricist - Rihanna, MainArtist - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Da Internz, Producer - Kevin 'KD' Davis, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Calvin Bailiff, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Producer, Co-Producer - Jennifer Rosales, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ernest Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Esther Dean, ComposerLyricist - Kevin Randolph, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rihanna, MainArtist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Erik Madrid, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Wyreman, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Rob Kinelski, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Omar Loya, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - No-ID, Producer - Jennifer Rosales, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tor Erik Hermansen, ComposerLyricist - Mikkel S. Eriksen, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Esther Dean, ComposerLyricist - Miles Walker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rihanna, MainArtist - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - StarGate, Producer - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alejandro Barajas, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Baria Qureshi, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Sim, ComposerLyricist - Jamie Smith, ComposerLyricist - Daniela Rivera, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Romy Croft, ComposerLyricist - Jennifer Rosales, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tor Erik Hermansen, ComposerLyricist - Mikkel S. Eriksen, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Esther Dean, ComposerLyricist - Miles Walker, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rihanna, MainArtist - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gareth McGrillen, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Rob Swire, Producer, ComposerLyricist - StarGate, Producer - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Daniela Rivera, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jennifer Rosales, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chauncey Hollis, ComposerLyricist - Robyn Fenty, ComposerLyricist - Rihanna, MainArtist - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alja Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Skylar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marcos Tovar, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Priscilla Renea, ComposerLyricist - Hit-Boy, Producer - Jennifer Rosales, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Esther Dean, ComposerLyricist - Rihanna, MainArtist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Erik Madrid, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - J Browz, Guitar, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Kuk Harrell, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Da Kid, Producer - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marcos Tovar, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alexander Grant, ComposerLyricist - Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jennifer Rosales, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album Description
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
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:23
- Main artists: Rihanna
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Def Jam Recordings
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
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16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
© 2011 The Island Def Jam Music Group ℗ 2011 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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