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

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

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150357617681676.341459.10092511675&type=3

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*

you were right the first time

i have heard this album now: http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/12602539547/i-went-to-hear-rihannas-new-album-today

Can't wait for this to leak.

word

reading some of the reviews online

it might explode my brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_310998&src_vid=kGuZj3b1QVc&feature=iv&v=PFXIH1mb1Fc&fmt=18

i was enjoying this until the chorus pierced my ears

^ oh yeah p.s. it's the 2nd single "you are the one" (/"you da one" for some reason)

great verses

just heard "you da one" on the radio, thought it was pretty great!

i can't really take her voice when it's used like that

like what?

that lilting sorta thing idk

that's like the ONLY way i like to hear her sing

feelin this

feel like I'm also approaching rihanna overexposure even though I haven't even heard anything off of her last album or last two albums except for the singles and I don't even own a radio

haha "except the singles" like that's not half the songs

i really do feel like taking a bit of time off would help her make better albums

i mean even THIS one, just a bit of care and effort would have made it pretty great instead of just ok, most of the non-calvin harris tracks have the basis of excellent songs in them

i think people kinda overstate how much music she makes. lots of people make WAY more than 15 songs a year, but unlike rihanna their songs aren't all released on big event albums with nearly half of them becoming chart hits.

i mean she probably has more creative input than a lot of people give her credit for, but still most of the man hours going into these records is probably on the songwriting/production side, and all the touring she does probably expends more of her voice and energy than the recording.

the whole album leaked and it's good but not great. there. nice to have that sorted out. see you all for album #7 next summer when i'll be here to say the exact same thing.

This is a good song but doesn't really sound like a hit?