Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
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Artist: RihannaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Music Label: Def Jam
Soundtracks:
- Umbrella feat. JAY-Z
- Push Up On Me
- Don't Stop The Music
- Breakin' Dishes
- Shut Up and Drive
- Hate That I Love You feat. Ne-Yo
- Say It
- Sell Me Candy
- Lemme Get That
- Rehab
- Question Existing
- Good Girl Gone Bad
Free Music Notes for Good Girl Gone Bad
Free Music Review: I Love This Bad Girl!
Hit: 5 Stars
Good Girl Gone Bad" is 19 year old Rihanna Fenty third album in only 3 years which is quite unordinary but she shows no signs of slowing down. As soon as her previous singles and albums started declining on the charts she comes out with new material, that itself is a very smart way of staying popular and not becoming a has been. Rihanna may not have the most spectacular voice but it's one of a kind with a shrill tone that makes her sound younger and easy to recognize and she's also very beautiful which is a good thing for a singer these days. Her music is a mix between, Caribbean Dancehall, Pop, R&B and Dance music and even some Rock lately. Hence, her music is more varied then alot of artists which makes her music accessable to most people. But Rihanna is better suited for uptempo's then ballads, her biggest hits were "Pon Da Replay" from (Music from the Sun) and "Sos" from (A Girl Like Me) and now her new single "Umbrella", another uptempo just reached the #1 position of the billboard charts. With this album, Rihanna decided to record an album where most songs are uptempo's (only 2-3 are slower but there is only 1 real ballad). She also gets alot of help from good producers like Timbaland, J. R Rotem, Carl Sturken/Evan Rogers, Stargate an Christopher Stewart and regardless of the diffrence between the producers it feels like most songs are part of the same concept, meliodic and well produced uptempos ready to become hits. Infact, the production here is amazing and some songs are in my oppinion it's as far as you can go right now with music production, mostly songs that brilliantly mix contemporary R&B and Pop with Dance Music. That's reason enough for a purchase.
It's quite incredible that Rihanna could make such a good album in such a short time. While her second album was better then her first, her third is better then her second. Like aformentioned, this is mostly a uptempo album with excellent futuristic production that blends diffrent genres with Dance Music. You got to give credits to Timbaland and other superproducers that really done something special to change the state of popular music from fabricated sample driven beat-oriented junk to creative futuristic and highly meliodic music that is mostly free from samples and blends diffrent genres brilliantly. Thus, I think that music right not is better then ever, and I thought I'd never say that 5-6 years ago when music had reached the bottom. Enough of the production, let's say something of the title "Good Girl Gone Bad", The title refers to Rihanna's going from being a girl to becoming a woman. The same thing happened with Britney Spears on her third album where more songs dealt with her emanicpation and sex then simple feel good pop. However, I wouldn't say that most songs deal with that and the few that do are mostly quite innocent or unrevealing, so judge the songs for it's sound and not it's lyrics that isn't put on focus here.
It starts with the first single and big hit "Umbrella" which is introduced by Jay-Z but I wouldn't say he got any impact of the song. The song which was produced by Christopher Stewart blends a rock edge with heavy drums with electro beats and got a killer hook where Rihanna sings "Now It's Raining More Then Ever/ Know that we'll still have each other/ You can stand under my Umbrella". A metaphor for being a good friend you can always count on, even in the hardest of time. It reached #1 in both US and UK, and it was the first song from a female artist ever to reach the top of the Uk list based entirely on downloads!. Next song "Push Up On Me" is one of the most uptempo songs with a 80's disco-pop inspired beat that slowly builds up and explode with a good hook. It's a Rotem prodution that samples the opening phase of Lionel Richie's "Running With the Night", This is a great floorfiller and feel good song and even if it's a bit repetitive towards the end it's simply irresisstable. Next song "Don't Stop the Music" from Stargate is quite simular to the last one, a floorfiller with great electro beats, although this time it sounds more like a Euro-Dance song that a 80's inspired pop song. It starts slow and slowly builts up til the hook comes in. It borrows the African chants from MJ's "Wanna Be Starting Sometin" but in a good way. It's good that the cathyness of Euro-Dance music is coming back into contemporary music again. "Breakin' Dishes" is another uptempo song with quite angry singing from Rihanna. It's more Hip Hopish then the other songs and got heavy bass and nice electro beats like the other songs. It seems to be about how to kill time before her guy comes home. "Shut Up And Drive" will be the second single and weird enough it's the second of only two songs that actually are rock-pop influenced and both single-released, why?. It borrows the bassline from New Order's "Blue Monday". It's not my favorite but a grower nonetheless.
"Hate That I Love You" with Ne-Yo, and produced by Stargate is the only real ballad on this album. The song sounds fammiliar but it's a sweet song and it's fun to see two of my favorite artists together for a duet!. "Say It" is a midtempo produced by Neo Da Matrix with some oriental infleunced beats, it's one of those songs that doesn't build up for a hook, but the song got a nice vibe nonetheless. "Sell Me Candy" is my favorite pick of this album and not too surprisingly it was produced by music innovator Timbaland. It's a catchy futuristic uptempo with great hook, that is destined to be the third single and smash hit In my oppinion. "Lemme Get That" a reggae inspired song about materialism. The song is good not great and also Timbaland produced. Another Timbaland song called "Rehab" that was co-written by Justin Timberlake. "Rehab" that resembles Timberlake's "Losing My Way" and "What Goes Around" is another standout and potential hit. With it's sad melancholy lyrics "You're the reason why I'm thinking/I don't wanna smoke on these cigarettes no more /I guess that's what I get for wishful thinking/ Should've never let you enter my door, Rihanna goes on the hook saying "It's like I checked into rehab/ And baby, you're my disease". "Question Existing" is quite strange, a slow song where Rihanna debates over who she is and what she wants. Must be strange going from a normal teenager on Barbados to a worldwide sensation everyone recognize?. Stargate ends this album with a midtempo and title track "Good Girl Gone Bad", the song is basically about how guys should treat girlfriends well, cause otherwise the "good girl" will be gone forever.
Overall, already after one listen I know this was a good album, after 2 listens I know it was better then anything else she had made and after 3 listens I know it's possibly the best album I've heard of this year so far. A more sexy Rihanna with an album brilliantly produced in the best of ways with a majority of uptempo's, it can't go bad. You should defenitely check this one, not only if you like Rihanna but if you like good meliodic hook driven pop music aswell. Every song here could be a hit. Recommended.
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Multi-platinum, award-winning SRP/Def Jam recording artist -and CoverGirl spokesperson - Rihanna has taken over the charts with her # 1 smash single "Umbrella" (featuring JAY-Z) and her chart topping album GOOD GIRL GONE BAD. Rihanna's third album release in less than two years, GOOD GIRL GONE BAD is the follow-up to 2006's platinum A Girl Like Me, with the back-to-back #1 hits, "S.O.S." and "Unfaithful"; and her gold debut from 2005, Music Of the Sun, featuring the worldwide smash, "Pon De Replay." GOOD GIRL GONE BAD boasts the production skills of Timabland, C. "Tricky" Stewart, Stargate, and the team of Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken (responsible for "S.O.S." and "Pon De Replay"), as well as songwriting contributions from Justin Timberlake and Ne-Yo, among others.There's a cool new development in summer singles: they no longer need to be sunny. In fact, the wetter the better. "Umbrella," the first single off Rihanna's ragingly good third album, may be her strongest ditty yet, and that's saying something considering her run of past summer chartbusters. More stylish than "S.O.S." (from A Girl Like Me) and more interesting than "Pon de Replay" (from Music of the Sun), "Umbrella" barrels forward with big, brawny drums and a hot but haunted-sounding vocal. From there, the upbeat numbers chug forth like chilled pina colada mix into a blender: "Breakin' Dishes" trades skillfully on a recent vogue for man-directed venom, and "Shut Up and Drive" borrows "S.O.S."-style from the '80s New Order song "Blue Monday." Both are irresistible. So, too, are a couple of late tracks. "Rehab" and "Lemme Get That," both produced by Timbaland, prove that being an island girl is no barrier to holding one's own amid a sizzling stew of urban beats. In fact, it's a boon--one that'll register with pop music fans instantly. -Tammy La Gorce
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