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RIHANNA - Good Girl Gone Bad
| Entertainment Weekly | | Here's a fun game: Put on Rihanna's catchy latest single, ''Umbrella,'' close your eyes, and pretend you're listening to the dearly departed '90s R&B girl group SWV (''Anything''). If, perchance, you have an old Pathfinder with a boomin' system to play it on, even better. Rihanna's tangy tremolo is unmistakably reminiscent of early hip-hop-soul divas Monica and SWV's Coko. And while the 19-year-old Caribbean singer's follow-up to last year's A Girl Like Me is a meld of many genres — including '80s pop and rock — at its finest, messiest moments, Good Girl Gone Bad is a thrilling throwback to more than a decade ago, when upstart producers haphazardly mashed R&B with hip-hop to create chunky jeep anthems such as Mary J. Blige's ''Real Love.''...full text |
| | Virgin | | Competition is fierce in R&B, and marketing and production budgets are huge. It should come as no surprise that Rihanna - who, despite her tender age, has already racked up a considerable run of hits - is being touted as a bright hope for the genre's future, and as a result this album has everything you'd expect from a label really trying to make it work. Big name guests? Check. Production and songwriting superstars? Check. With this kind of support, it can't really fail....full text |
| | Slant Magazine | | Despite her shortcomings, Rihanna has carved out a comfy little niche for herself in today's pop music landscape. She can't really sing, she doesn't offer much in the way of lyrics, and she doesn't seem to have any super-star quality, but she looks great covered in glitter and silver body paint. She's also managed to saturate the market with new product over the span of less than two years without suffering the overexposure of many of her R&B diva contemporaries....full text |
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