Today I'm going to look at Rated R by Rihanna from late 2009. Why, cause it's a great album. Made after her incident, in her "dark" period the album really reflects that. It's a roller-coaster into Rihanna's Mad House that I enjoyed more than any of her other work.
Adele's song Rolling in the Deep has been this years "Song of the Summer." Though with Katy Perry's new single hitting #1 on iTunes her reighn is coming to an end. It makes me wonder after Rolling in the Deep finally dies down could Adele have another hit or will this be her peak?
In what could only be the perfect storm Taylor Swift did what even I thought would be impossible in this day and age. She sold 1,047,000, an impressive feat indeed. She really did have everything together this week. Good coverage, she was on a many of talk shows. Good hype, there was so much talk about who the songs were actually about. Good reviews, I wasn't the only one to do a smashing critique. Everything came together this week to give her these stunning sells and I doubt even Susan Boyle will be able to compete with her this year.
Rihanna may not be the best singer or performer, but one thing she is great at is putting out great pop music. As someone who loves music for music Rihanna is a gift who keeps on giving. Her newest single What's My Name featuring Drake is a nice little ditty in the vein of her hit Rudeboy. It's freash, fun, has a good rap interlude, and is my Song of the Day!
What's My Name? Feat. Drake is on sale now! Her fifth album Loud, will be released November 10!
With the release of her music video Katy Perry's new single Firework shot up to the top twenty of iTunes. Now time to be a little mean I do not this song at all. A lot of the lyrics are clichéd quips wrapped around the metaphor of everyone being a bight firework and that's not the even the greatest offense. That would be her atrocious singing. Now Katy is a competent singer, but Firework is just way out of her range. This makes the song nearly unlistenable as her raspy voice yells out the chorus. Someone like Kelly Clarkson could do it, but not poor Katy Perry. She should stick to the sing talking from her last two hits...
Anyways it could be worse at least Firework isn't a metaphor for sex or something. Now here's the music video where fireworks come out of Katy's gazongas!
Today's Song of the Day is by UK superstar Cheryl Cole. If you don' know who she is well Cheryl is a judge of the popular show X-Factor (no word on if she will be still judge when Simon Cowell brings the show over to the US) and was apart of the girl group Girls Aloud. Often tabloid fodder she has become a star in her own right.
Solo she's relased two albums and Parachute is from her debut 3 Words. The lovely track is one of the best on her critcially panned album and definitely the best single she has released.
It's only been 6 years since Rihanna first appeared with her single Pon de Replay whichstormed up to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the girl hasn't stopped since. With 7 number one hits Rihanna is one of the biggest hit makers in the business and any song released with her on it is bound to be a hit.
Well she's back with a much different sound from her opus Rated R and I didn't really like it. Only Girl seemed to be too safe and was just being used to get Rihanna a hit and so far it hasn't exactly worked (its currently stalled at number 3 and I don't see it ever reaching the top). Though that doesn't mean its a terrible song what it needed was a good remix and that this is.
Only Girl In The World (CCW Radio Mix) is much better than the original in my opinion and is my song of the day. It can be found here, I also recommend the The Bimbo Jones Radio Mix and the Mixin Marc & Tony Svejda Radio Mix. Rihanna's next album Loud will be released November, 10 with the original song so keep a look out for that!
So Song of the Day is essentially the song I most love at this point in time that I want to share so I'll be doing it daily or every few days. For the first Song of the Day I had a hard time to choose just one song. I mean Taylor Swifts new album just dropped, and due to the holiday season coming up, every big artist and their protégé are releasing something. In in the end I wanted to spotlight one of my fav artist and her newest single, Raise Your Glass by the indomitable P!nk!
The song is a ultra fun party anthem about being yourself that just makes you wanna have a good time. Being featured on her new greatest hits collection the song is very much a Pink song and her personality shines through. The only problem that I first heard with the track was the spoken word part slowed it down to much to make it a true party song. Though its still a great song from an even greater singer so be to skool for cool and give it a listen.
