Rihanna -- We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) and subsequent 2011 album

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the video is just rihanna-does-skins, complete with shitty music

One thing the video does quite well is to give some thematic purpose to the cheapness of Harris' synths, like: even the euphoria is borrowed, precarious, a facsimile of euphoria.

lol nice try but no

how is rihanna-doing-skins NOT akin to those synths?

Surm, lex's world of pop Is one of absolutes. The evil of Harris is beyond redemption.

I don't know why but I think "Talk That Talk" is a brilliant name for a Rihanna album in 2011.

tim...calvin harris is a dreadful producer. his style and his sound hasn't changed so why on earth would my opinion of him change?

i agree talk that talk is a great album title though, and she's been recording with terius so i have hope that this song will be calvin harris's only presence on it

I wasn't really saying you were wrong Lex.

One thing the video does quite well is to give some thematic purpose to the cheapness of Harris' synths, like: even the euphoria is borrowed, precarious, a facsimile of euphoria.

― Tim F, Friday, 21 October 2011 22:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark

quality stuff imo

was it just me that found the quick frame of a big mouth billy bass after the first "hopeless place" so hilarious

rather found it hard to work myself up to the necessary level of intensity after that

(let me just take that hopeless plaice joek away from you before you think of posting it.)

really enjoying hearing this song on the radio. while i think it's pretty miraculous that the calvin harris produced single has some salvageable tastefulness & wouldn't nec look forward to an entire album produced by him & his ilk, i am kind of bored of terius/rihanna and i think a maybe tinny, shiny ravey album with dark/deep themes would be cool on a kelis - flesh tone tip

we already had "only girl" and "s&m"

every time i hear afrojack's "take over control" on the radio i think 'this should have been the new rihanna single' the same way people used to do w/ "whip my hair"

xp of those 2 i only like "only girl," but i probably like it at least twice as much as "s&m" & maybe 5/4 as much as "we found love"

rihanna/stargate >>>>>>>>> rihanna/terius anyway

i mean obv they've done some of her dancey stuff but also some of her best r&b

Doesn't seem to matter as much who produces her as what she/they are going for. Rated R packs an odd mix of producers but works as an album (and got some of the old barbados swagger out of her without going back to those producers or retracing her steps, plus just being more interesting overall. I'm thinking the new one will be more all over the place dancey stuff since that's what makes her the world's biggest.) Keeping this tempo up she will surely release another one next summer, and I hope it's full of island music

The ribbon vomit reminds me of Julie Taymor's "Titus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUViv00u5Y

she will surely release another one next summer, and I hope it's full of island music

I don't know, the last three in a row have all come out in November, that seems to be her pace at this point. One a year, just in time for the holiday sales bump.

Her most successful album came out during summer fwiw

Am i the only one who keeps on hearing the intro on the radio, and absentmindedly expects/hopes/wishes teh rest of the tune to "Stereo" by Spooky to come tumbling in...?

Going out on a limb and saying yes.

bah.

i'm pretty into this song but yeah it does feel like a third of a song repeated three times

the video is weird and not even in the way that it's trying to be Weird

the repetition works for me. doesn't demand too much attention.

it certainly doesn't

my bro's gf styled this video (everyone except Rihanna herself). I guess it's pretty Skins-y, I'm too old/fashion-ignorant to know really. Your man does look like Chris Brown, I will say that.

xp the sound definitely grabs my attention, but the song structure does not feel laborious

overall, it seems like the divide btw the romance of this melody and the harshness of the synths and video mimics the blurred line btw lust and love in general as antidotes for despair

rihanna says they found love, but she also says that she has to let it go, reflecting this sort of ambiguity.

11th #1

1 You Da One
2 Where Have You Been
3 We Found Love
4 Talk That Talk
5 Cockiness (Love It)
6 Birthday Cake
7 We All Want Love
8 Drunk On Love
9 Roc Me Out
10 Watch n' Learn
11 Farewell

Deluxe:

12 Red Lipstick
13 Do Ya Thang
14 Fool In Love

there's a dr. luke/calvin harris production lol
one of the songs samples the xx
rihanna's favourite/the one she says is her favourite so you buy the deluxe is "fool in love"
"red lipstick" uses the 'saxon' beat

hmmmmm

how has not a single other song from this album leaked out yet

She probably hasn't recorded them yet

heh

she wingin it

Heard this song so much on the radio at work the last 2-3 weeks. It sends me to a hopeless place.

"red lipstick" uses the 'saxon' beat

yes!

although having said that outdoing nicki's "saxon" will be tough

lmao

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Does anyone else think she sounds awful on "We Found Love," especially when she goes for those high notes?

xp i know i looked thru that album the other night, too good

There are high notes in "We Found Love"?

Ok there aren't really "high notes," but the highEST notes.

she switches to head voice on the high notes, and i think it sounds great

i am going to hear "some songs" from this tomorrow! i hope one of them is "cockiness". i wonder if that song could possibly feature a double entendre of some sort

I don't have any problems with the way she sounds on "We Found Love", I was just bemused by the idea of Rihanna singing high notes.

she switches to head voice on the high notes, and i think it sounds great

― surm, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 11:36 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

Ugh, I hate her "head voice." But I might be in the majority.

minority*