Pop – New Rihanna Album: The Queen can do everything – Süddeutsche.de

“Anti” is there, it is free and quite bland. No matter: the crown of pop Rihanna sits just on themselves.

“Anti” is there. Finally. Rihanna has actually released their new album. This is great, especially because it means that these stupid pseudo-viral hashtag scavenger hunt is over, somebody would be a good marketing campaign. But a new Rihanna album also means that new melodies for millions. . For this music video channels in fast-food chains, for each radio station of Altötting to New Delhi for daughters, mothers, fathers, sons

“anti” the first album since “Unapologetic” of 2012 – the longest break of her career. Shortly before Christmas saw it ever look as would appear “anti”. But the great social media advertising machine of Rihanna and Samsung just kept with Instagram-street art and strange video snippets that the final scene of “2001: A Space Odyssey” reminded. Yesterday a new single was then suddenly there – and for a short time the whole album. In response to the leak – intention or not, who knows – there’s the album now even available for free download, at Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal, where there will be a week too exclusively to hear

Krude publication policy or not. Now is “anti” So in the world. And it must be said: How good it actually is, is not really matter. The golden crown of Pop Rihanna sits down on yourself.

In 1988, Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Today, a discovery by Jay-Z, eight Grammys and eight studio albums later, she has sold more than 200 million records – making it one of the most successful artists of all time. Three Singles Rihanna has released last year: “American Oxygen”, “Bitch Better Have My Money” and “Four Five Seconds”, the collaboration with Paul McCartney and Kanye West. All of wonderful pop songs. And what does the queen? Packt they did not even plan on the album. That you have to get even dare: Just looking Paul McCartney and Kanye West omit the find the biggest pop star of the 20th century, the other the biggest pop star of the 21st century

“anti” is. only two collaborators. One of them is Drake, who also plays along the top. But even he is “anti” any matter. His audience with the Queen, the single “Work” is nice dancehall pop – nice but boring. Ahead was Kanye West as producer which speech by rapper and Rihanna Boyfriend Travis Scott Song partners. The self-crowned queen needs – apart from her co-songwriters – no one. You can do it all alone. And everything really means everything.

Rihanna takes place with “anti” from the dance floor back and fans on their style, the variety could not be. “James joint” reminiscent of the jazz productions of Thundercat, “Kiss It Better” wraps around one of these phallic early-nineties guitar solos – think of Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora on a snowy mountaintop. “Woo” stumbles through battered and distorted sounds – as it just does Hiphop after Kanye West’s “Yeezus”. “Love On The Brain” is knotless Soul. . Already great, but the others have already exciting hinbekommen

As far Rihanna’s UK today is really enough, showing her cover version of Tame Impala “Same Ol ‘Mistakes” – psychedelic weirdo-pop from the Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker. That’s a nice idea, and sounds quite lovely – as well as even the original. “I know it’s hard to digest, but maybe this story is not so different from the rest,” Rihanna sings in the bridge. How true. Yes, the Queen can do everything. What she touches turns gold-glittering pop. That “anti” still remains bland as an album, is clear: a world only of gold is just totally boring

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