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Feb 9, 2012Musically, this is pop without shame‑-her hookiest and most dance-targeted album.
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Nov 29, 2011It's easy to criticise Talk That Talk but it's actually a fun and enjoyable record.
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Nov 23, 2011Behind Good Girl Gone Bad and Rated R, this is Rihanna's third best album to date. Minus the fluff, it's close to the latter's equal.
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Nov 23, 2011It's another solid collection, complete with radio hits, club bangers, and introspective ballads on her favorite subjects: love and sex.
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Nov 22, 2011It seems erratic, but it somehow works, at least musically.
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Nov 22, 2011Talk That Talk is both a sharp departure from her dark, rock-infused last two albums Rated R and Loud and a more easily enjoyable work.
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Nov 22, 2011We turn to Rihanna for kicks, sure, but also, thanks to a voice whose limitations give her a supple vulnerability, for a tinge of bittersweet pain. Talk That Talk is at its best when it's working that angle.
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Nov 21, 2011Where last year's Loud had a hefty helping of unshakable singles, this album's arc, however simple--sex, love, sex, repeat--is cohesive and sweet.
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Nov 21, 2011Sure, like much of the album, Rihanna is mining her past glories all over again, but she does it with such swagger, such enthusiasm, that the end result is a definitive thrill-ride of a success.
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Nov 21, 2011Rihanna's sixth album is her tightest, most assured yet--a relentlessly catchy and danceable pop album, with first-rate contributions from top songwriter-producers (The-Dream, No I.D., Dr. Luke, Stargate).
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Nov 21, 2011Rihanna's version of this sound [dance music] dates to the club music of the early 1990s, an era in which she would have shined. The best songs on this lively and often great album sound synth-perfect for that time.
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Nov 21, 2011It is meant to be fun, catchy, sexy, and danceable, and while it isn't groundbreaking by any means, it succeeds in reaching all of its goals.
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Nov 17, 2011It works best when the music hall bawdiness is left aside in favour of bleak euphoria.
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Nov 17, 2011True, she's still got two token I-like-it-rough tracks--"Birthday Cake" and "Cockiness (Love It)"--but they're just filler on an album that's all about dragging you out of the bedroom and onto the dance floor.
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Nov 17, 2011An adrenalised behemoth of a record which reasserts her position as one of pop's most compulsive pleasures.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 401 out of 609
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Mixed: 113 out of 609
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Negative: 95 out of 609
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