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Good Girl Gone Bad

EMAILPRINTby Rihanna

Rihanna reviews
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8.5 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 17 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 55 votes
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Album Info

Label: Def Jam

Release Date: 05 June 2007

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): R&B

Summary

The singer collaborated with Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Ne-Yo for her third album.

What The Critics Said

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83

Entertainment Weekly

Rihanna works with edgier and wittier verse than on her two previous albums.

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80

Dot Music

An album of class, depth and seriously hard grinding, it's a major transformation from pretty girl with potential to star turn.

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80

Observer Music Monthly

Beyonce's superstar status is not in danger, but she should hand her A&R man a copy of this album.

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80

All Music Guide

Three consecutive Timbaland productions, including one suited for a black college marching band and another that effectively pulls the romantically co-dependent heartstrings, enhance the album rather than make it more scattered.

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74

Pitchfork

An unexpectedly varied and satisfying listen.

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70

The New York Times

This CD sounds as if it were scientifically engineered to deliver hits.

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70

PopMatters

Frankly, any track from this set could work as a single.

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70

Boston Globe

What the songs lack in lyrical innovation they more than make up for in transporting rhythms.

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70

Blender

She's chosen a bunch of fiery roles that even she can't dull up. [Jul 2007, p.114]

60

Billboard

Focusing more on catchy hooks and Fergie-style chants than lyrics helps disguise her vocal limitations. [9 Jun 2007]

60

Prefix Magazine

The album often ventures into the cheesiest territories of pop music, but this is Rihanna's strongest effort to date.

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60

Slant Magazine

Lyrics are once again an Achilles high heel for Rihanna.

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60

The Guardian

[She] is ill-suited to the swerve into dance-pop territory that dominates the first half.

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60

Village Voice

Good Girl never settles on a sound, and Rihanna vacillates between aping Gretchen Wilson, Ashanti, Gwen Stefani, and Pink. Nonetheless, she often sounds every bit like the superstar she clearly intends to be.

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60

NOW Magazine

A fairly satisfying collection of disposable pop R&B.

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54

cokemachineglow

There are hits on Good Girl Gone Bad, big clubfisted ones, but they're wedged in with facsimiles and reductions.

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50

Hot Press

Truly, this is music for the ringtone generation.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 55 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

kyle kyle gave it a10:
Seriously, this is one of the best, if not the best album of 2007. All but two of the songs of this album are great, catchy songs, worthy on anybody's portable music player!!! Rihanna really knows how to make a good album. Even the slower songs like "Lemme Get That", "Rehab", and "Good Girl Gone Bad", she still seems to make interesting and entertaining!!

Music Man gave it a10:
This review, I will say is very, very late. Especially with regards to the best R&B and Pop album of 2007. Rihanna delivers on every single track. There's no need to mention Umbrella, the last year's monster-hit or any of her other smash-up singles that followed (up to Don't Stop The Music) because they all packed a fiery punch, vocally, lyrically and production-wise. All the Timbaland tracks, mainly Sell Me Candy are brilliant and the remainder of the album is exceptional as well. Say It, which is often criticized as a filler and as the worst song on the album actually isn't half as bad as people think it is. Give this Good Girl Gone bad a listen; you're not gonna want her to stop the music.

Cass B. gave it a10:
I'm not usually into this sort of music, but I heard Umbrella and found myself loving it. So I bought the album and to my surprise everything on it was awesome.

T soe gave it a4:
i would say this album is less interesting then Fergie's The Dutchess, and Gwen Stefani's Sweet Escape. The album consists of the same kind of repetative lyrics (e.g umrella-ella-ella-ella,aye-aye-aye or shut up and drive-drive-drive-drive). it forces the listeners to get so fed up with the constant annoyance that the songs would be stuck in their heads. vocally, she's not so strong either. Just like her effort with Unfaithful, her voice results in being reedy and thin. i would of given this album a 0 but the thumping beats of Umbrella shows a strong editing through the use of computers. Other then that all the other songles seems to have derived from Umbrella it self and appears unoriginal.

A C gave it a9:
Very, very solid album I must say from little miss hottie, Rihanna. "Sell Me Candy", "Push Up On Me", "Rehab", "Good Girl Gone Bad" and "Breakin' Dishes" are to me the standout tracks but all the songs are catchy, no fillers whatsoever. All in all, this is just a wonderful album to listen to. Really upbeat and with lots of great hooks and melodies. I highly recommend it! This is going to be stuck in your head for weeks, trust me on that!

Thompson gave it a10:
Cool. That pretty much sums up this amazing album.

Miguel gave it a10:
Much, much better than her previous two albums combined! A breath of fresh air from alot of the other R&B/Hip-Pop crap that's out there right now. Truly awesome!

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