Just a few years ago Justin Bieber was a youtube sensation.. Now hes a pop sensation. I remember when he performed ‘Chris Brown – With You’ on his youube account. Well guess what. Rumour has it that the two will be collaborating on a song together, It all started on Christmas day when Brown took to his twitter account and posted the news to all of his fans. Question is…Does this all come down to Chris Brown wanting to Re-Vamp his image by collaborating with one of the most popular singers to this day?
I actually think that it doesnt have much to do with Chris wanting his old fame back, I mean, The guy’s newest song ‘Yeah x3’ made it pretty big.
I personally don’t think that it is a bad choice for ‘it’ boy Justin Bieber, I mean, Its not like hes done anything to offend the public so he can easily whipe his image clean if the song goes to shit.
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“Rated R”, Rihanna’s fourth studio album, has sold over 2 millions copies worldwide – since November 23, 2009. Since nowadays albums don’t sell like they used to, the sales are pretty good. 2 singles have been released worlwide (Russian Roulette and Rude Boy) and 3 in the United States (Russian Roulette, Hard and Rude Boy). For amazing “Rated R” reviews, click read more.
Congratulations, Rihanna!
People Magazine
Top Albums Of The Year
After the Chris Brown drama, the 21 year old diva emerged triumphant. Her gritty fourth album is her coming-of-age manifesto, her Control. It’s deeper and darker, harder and heavier than anything you have expected from the girl who gave us “Umbrella”.
Chicago Tribune
Top Albums Of The Year
3.5/4 Stars
Even smart people make decisions they later come to regret. In Rihanna’s case, she turned that regret into powerful and moving art.
Allmusic
4 Stars
Much of this daring album is absolutely over the top, bleak and sleek both lyrically and sonically, but it’s compelling, filled with as many memorably belligerent lines — two of which, “I pitch with a grenade/Swing away if ya feeling brave” and “I’m such a f**kin’ lady,” set the tone early on — as a rap album made ripe for dissection.
Whether the album seems ridiculous or spectacular (or both), Rihanna’s complete immersion in the majority of the songs cannot be disputed. That is the one thing that is not up for debate.
New York Times
Albums Of The Year List
In the multimedia whirlwind of a 21st-century pop career, Rihanna simply couldn’t have made an album of lovey-dovey ballads or simple dance songs. “Rated R” does what divas do: leverage personal troubles into music. And with it, Rihanna never lets her sorrows overwhelm her musical craftsmanship or the determination behind it.
ROLLING STONE
4 STARS
Until recently, the singer has been quiet about the incident. Songs like “Russian Roulette” — a domestic-violence victim’s confession whipped into soaring melodrama — tell us why: She was busy saying her piece in the studio.
If by some accident of fate, or maybe record-company cynicism, the new Chris Brown album has arrived at the same moment as his ex’s. The results tempt a reviewer to talk in terms of moral victories, but the real triumph here is artistic. Chris Brown has made a bland, occasionally obnoxious, pro forma R&B album. Rihanna has transformed her sound and made one of the best pop records of the year.
SLANT MAGAZINE
4/5 STARS
In response to circumstances beyond her control, the pop star many had preemptively compared to the likes of Janet Jackson finally pockets her own private Velvet Rope.
Los Angeles Times
4/5 STARS
“Rated R” belongs to that lonely figure, a self-styled X-Girl taken aback by her own vulnerability. After an intro that immediately cops to its maker’s agitation — it’s called “Mad House” — the album unfolds in quick turns, alternating acts of aggression with confessions of sorrow and confusion.
By allowing herself to express the whole range of what an abused woman goes through, Rihanna has given those young fans for whom she feels responsible the greatest gift art can give: a portrait of lived experience that doesn’t step back from what’s hardest to admit.
ABOUT.COM
4/5 STARS
The consistent mood in vocals, instrumentation and lyrics on Rated R is impressive. The last time a major mainstream pop star explored personal darkness with such an unflinching eye over the course of an album was on Kelly Clarkson’s stunning My December. Rihanna seems unconcerned here about commercial success. She even seems uninterested in any particular enjoyment from her listeners. She is here to lay bare the emotions and experiences she was forced to bear. It is both a musical cautionary tale, and a depiction that survival is possible. Some of the vocals here, particularly on the powerful “Cold Case Love” are among the most beautiful Rihanna has yet recorded, but they are in the service of a very dark, bleak statement.
CHICAGO SUN TIMES
3/4 STARS
The album moves through the same sort of emotional journey that one imagines the singer undergoing in the last year. After an opening old-school horror-movie homage called “Mad House”–more shades of “Thriller”–we find Rihanna boasting about being part of an unbeatable team (“Together we gonna be taking over” and sitting on top of the pop charts and the world in general (“Brilliant, resilient/Fan mail from 27 million” in “Wait Your Turn” and “Hard.”
“I’ve never played a victim/I’d rather be a stalker,” Rihanna sings. That’s hardly a profound or particularly feminist lyric, but its strength comes from the way she spits out the words. In both the quieter, more introspective songs and the angrier dancehall-flavored club-stompers, her limited vocal range has never sounded more convincing or deserving of the pop spotlight.
BOSTON GLOBE
“Rated R’’ is not just an album title – it’s a warning. On her fourth release, out today, pop star Rihanna unleashes a storm, and an umbrella is not going to cut it.
NME MAGAZINE
8/10 STARS
Rihanna makes the sound her own, and fights back. On ‘G4L’ she calls for an army of women in solidarity: “Girls, girls, come on we ain’t done yet/Gotta lot to handle/We ain’t take over the world yet/Guns in the air”. Never exploited and totally in control, the sultry sexbomb of ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’ is now a siren on the rocks – dangerous, self-aware and with a clan behind her. Empowered but not embittered, Rihanna turns her back on love.
THE COUCH SESSIONS
4.5/5 STARS
Undeterred by such a notion, Rihanna releases Rated R her fourth studio album on November 23rd, one of the more anticipated releases of the fourth quarter holiday season. It’s a dark, defiant and downright angry Rihanna on this record, appearing ready to fight a world that turned their back on her, and heaped pity, scorn and ridicule upon her situation.
Entertainment Weekly
Pop Album Of The Year
The insidious pleasure of the Barbadian superstar’s dark, defiantly uncommercial fourth album have sucked us in entirely. From burst of spiky aggression and reggae-tinged rapture to moments of pure naked vulnerability it’s emerged as the stealth stunner.
The Phoenix
3.5/4 Stars
Throughout this emotional maelstrom of an R&B album, Rihanna keeps finding gripping new ways to transform regret into a kind of threat.
NOW Magazine
4/5 Stars
Rated R is without question a very dark album, which should come as no surprise. After her breakup with Chris Brown following a vicious beating, it was assumed that she’d be addressing domestic abuse and heartbreak, but we were expecting a more introspective collection of ballads and tearjerkers. Instead, she’s delivered an angry and emotional album of goth R&B jams (new genre alert?) with heavy rock overtones.
Amidst the violent revenge fantasies and appropriation of dancehall machismo, she also tackles self-doubt and regret, making Rated R one of the more complex breakup albums ever to penetrate the mainstream.
Digital Spy
5 Stars
There’s a four-letter word that describes Rated R better than all others. This is an album that begins with a sonorous male voice intoning, “Welcome to the mad house” over Hammer Horror organs and ends with a suicide ballad called ‘The Last Song’. The black-and-white album cover presents Rihanna as a beautiful/aloof pop cyborg in desperate need of some Nurofen, while the photos inside show her encased in barbed wire, lying on a bed of naked Barbie dolls and rocking a chainmail wig. That four-letter word, in case you haven’t guessed it yet, is “dark”. Rated R isn’t just dark, but unrelentingly dark.
However, if one word describes how Rated R sounds, quite another encapsulates what it’s about. That word? Control. Rated R should primarily be perceived as Rihanna’s most significant career progression yet. If ‘Pon De Replay’ and ‘SOS’ showed she could sell a pop single, and 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad proved she could carry an entire album, this is the record – startling in vision, startlingly good in execution – that elevates her from popstar to pop artist. Rihanna, in case you were wondering, is still only 21 years old.
Montreal Gazette
4/5 Stars
Over the course of her first three albums, Rihanna established herself increasingly as a force to be reckoned with in pop music.
Rihanna’s career came to a grinding halt in February when she was assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown, forcing her to cancel that night’s performance at the Grammys. Nine months later, she returns with her fourth album – her darkest, most autobiographical collection of songs yet.
Rihanna has loved, she has suffered, and she has made the album she had to make – one that references her tabloid-splashed story without drowning in it. She comes out stronger for it with her most personal album, and perhaps her strongest.
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
The infectiousness and fun that the reggae-influenced Barbadian-American Rihanna showcased on her first three albums is nowhere to be found on her fourth album, “Rated R.” Instead, she’s a defiant, hard-edged singer who directly addresses her relationship with Chris Brown and the ugliness he unleashed upon her. Hell hath no fury like Rihanna, whose distinctive singing style is a powerful weapon on songs that replace her once-childish pop with angry club-bangers and devastating ballads. The change of personalities is jarring, but the album is a perfect salvo to prove she’s determined not to be a victim.
USA TODAY
3/4 STARS
It’s clear from the opening Mad House that her once-sunny mood has been darkened by the intense media spotlight, pushing her further into the edgier territory she staked out on 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad. Bolder and often explicit lyrics and more assured vocals reflect a growing confidence and artistic maturity. This is about her coming to grips with her stardom, her hurts, her competition and her critics. Hard is a punch in the mouth to her doubters, while Stupid in Love declares “the dunce cap is off.” Wait Your Turn brashly puts rivals in check, and Rude Boy maintains her dance-floor allure. But probably the most telling statement of who Rihanna is these days is the Slash-propelled Rockstar 101, which revels in her status as a ubiquitous celebrity (“I never played the victim/I’d rather be a stalker”.
BILLBOARD
Rihanna may have been a good girl gone bad on her 2007 album, but on her new one, she’s a good girl gone bad-ass. During the electric-guitar-soused “Rock Star,” the R&B singer revels in her bad-girl rebellion. The singles “Wait Your Turn” and “Hard” find Rihanna singing beefy lyrics over epic piano patterns. But she doesn’t talk tough all the way through the set. “Photographs” features Rihanna lamenting over a lost relationship above static drums, whereas on the heartfelt ballad “Stupid in Love,” she croons over a pulsating beat, “You don’t know what you lost/And you won’t realize it till I’m gone.”
TIMES
4/5 STARS
Ultimately, though, Rihanna is able to locate a midway point between victimhood and oblivion. In Cold Case Love, a slice of jerky melancholia co-written by Justin Timberlake, she calmly intones: “Release me now ’cos I did my time.” And so she has. Its melodrama sharpened with the sting of experience, this cathartic album is the sound of a woman losing control — and then triumphantly regaining it.
MASS LIVE
4.5/5 STARS
A lot of her fans and a lot of the world was left wondering just how Rihanna would react after the ugly incident that left her in the eye of the hurricane. She kept her dignity but she definitely stood up with a mixture of defiance, pride and power on “Rated R.”
HITSDAILYDOUBLE
Sometimes good things come out of bad, and that’s the case for this sultry Barbados-born diva, who has created a critical, if not commercial, breakthrough album on her fourth try, and if I had listened to it any sooner, it would’ve been on my year-end best-of list. Growing up in public, Rihanna deals with all her issues in the music and her art, while emerging as the most thrilling new female crossover artist on the urban landscape since the heyday of Grace Jones.
Source: www.Rihannadaily.com
After the hell she went through last year with Chris Brown, we really hoped Rihanna would be able to find a new man who wasn’t likely to beat her to a pulp again.
Things were looking good with her new baseball player bloke Matt Kemp but it turns out this one could be just as dodgy.
Kemp’s ex girlfriend Felisha Terrell says she filed a restraining order against him in June 2008 because of his violent behaviour, Perez Hilton reports.
“He is violent and I am afraid,” said Felisha. “He repeatedly made me scared and gets in my face. He is threatening to take all the items I purchased and try to destroy my property. He brings his friends driving up and down the street to try and intimidate me. I am very fearful. He has other people calling me and stalking me.”
She also claims Matt was “kicked out of a club for fighting with a woman – I am afraid his behaviour will turn towards me since we are no longer dating.”
Oh dear. Tread very carefully with this one Rihanna. Or better still, dump him and find a guy who’ll treat you right.
Halle Berry is no stranger to domestic violence, having dealt with the abuse against her mother by her father as well as an abusive relationship in the past.
That said, she had some thoughts on the incident between Rihanna and Chris Brown:
“Recently, Rihanna stepped forward and obviously she had an issue with domestic violence. She was able to get away which isn’t often the easiest thing. Any time a woman frees herself from that kind of bondage and that kind of situation I’m proud.”
Halle just helped launch photographer Mark Liddell’s book Exposed: 10 Years in Hollywood, in which some of the proceeds with go towards the Jenesse Center, a domestic violence organization.
Lady Gaga: Re-releases her Album The Fame, along with a few new songs, The first single from the new release will be Bad Romance, The date for release is the 24th of November.
Rihanna: Rihanna’s 4th studio album is named Rated-R and will release around the world on 23rd of november, Her first single from the new commer is Russian Ruelette. With the first video from Rated-R being Wait Your turn.
Chris Brown: This singer is making his comback with his new album Graffiti, The album is said to his stores in early December. The first video from the Album is I can transform Ya.
Pretty Ricky: Is set to release they’re newest album self titled Pretty Ricky on the 17th of November.
Eminem: Relapse 2 is the upcoming seventh studio album by American rapper Eminem.Relapse 2 was confirmed during a press release by Eminem’s label on March 5, 2009 and will be the second Eminem album released in 2009, being preceded by Relapse. The album is reported to be slated for release in November 2009.
Timbaland: Prestents Sock Value number 2! It’s the third solo studio album, by record producer and rapper Timbaland initially due for release on November 23, 2009 through Blackground Records but now scheduled for release on December 7, 2009 in the UK and a day later in the US.
Nelly: Nelly’s sixth studio album, to be released in 2010. Nelly has worked with a number of artists on this new album including: Diddy, Akon, Plies, Sean Paul, St. Lunatics, Janet Jackson, Usher and many more. The album will be self titles as Nelly?.
Dr.Dre: Detox is the upcoming third studio album by rapper and record producer Dr. Dre. It was originally due for a 2004 release, but was not completed because Dr. Dre wanted to concentrate on producing for artists that were on his Aftermath Entertainment record label, the album is slated for a 2010 release, Dr. Dre has stated that this will be his final album.
Dont forget to keep a look out and buy these albums! :)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Upcoming_albums
Okay so I updated about the first Rihanna tell all interview. Now Im going to update about the second installment. Im actually going to post the video for you, But for those who dont have Java script on they’re computers, Heres some info on the 2nd tell all interview. Part 2.
In this interview with Diane Sawyer, Rihanna speaks about the events that took place in Feb 7th the night of the Grammy’s. Rihanna was riding in the passenger side of the Vehical, Singer boyfriend Chris brown driving, when she noticed a text on his mobile phone from another woman. Rihanna then got fired up and wouldnt let this slide. Chris wouldnt tell the thruth, and with a firey Rihanna that wouldnt drop it things got out of hand. “I couldnt take that he kept lying to me, The truth is right here, in the text message” says Rihanna. “So it escallated into him being violent toward me, and. . .It was UGLY”. The police report stated that Brown continued to drive while the -ex couple fought. She says that he shoved her agianst the window, at one point even bit her & punched her in the left eye.
At one point of the voilent attack Rihanna’s mouth was full of blood. All she could think was, “When is it going to stop, when?” “He had no muscle in his eyes/face, he was just blank, he was clearly blacked out, There was no person when I looked at him, I was bleeding, I was swollen in my face, There was no way of me getting home except for, my next option was getting out the car and walk, start walking. I really dont know what was my plan, I didnt have that planned, That whole night was not part of my plan.”
“He was my best friend, we were in love, it just takes time and love doesnt go away right away ya know?” “He didnt accept that very well, Obvoisly he didnt want us to be apart, but I know how to make a desision for me.”
When asked by Diane if Rihanna hates Brown she responded – “No, I dont hate him at all.” “I actually love and care about him, im concerned about him doing well, have a great career, have a great life, and to grow up, Take this as somthing that you had to go through to grow up and learn”
My thoughts on this are rusty, I have to be honest with you, I didnt see the end of the interview ending that way. I thought she would have hated his guts, as many of her fans e.c.t do. But you have to admit, she is very strong and wise to say that, She has obvoiusly looked at it clearly and made the desision not to hold a grudge agianst Chris.
Okay so we all should know about the events that took place in Feb earlier this year. Well a quick recap. Singer Chris Brown beat his Ex-Girlfriend singer Rihanna. Well an interview (RiRi’s first interview about the abuse since Feb) Has aired on the Good Morning America show, Rihanna was interviewed by Diane Sawyer. Although only 5 minutes of this interview was released, the real interview will be airing on 20/20. Yet Rihanna has said alot in this interview she will be telling all in the next one. Rihanna has not spoken about the Feb incedent that shaddered the world since it happend, so this is BIG for the 21 year old singer. The part that everyone will be talking about came when Rihanna acknowledged getting back together with Brown in the weeks after he assaulted her. “It’s pretty natural for that to be the first reaction,” she told Sawyer.
Here are some of RiRi’s qoutes Through out the interview.
“The moment the physical wounds go away, you want the memories to go away.”
“I fell in love with that person. That’s embarassing.”
“When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that.”
“He was deffinaltey my first BIG LOVE”
“This happened to me, It can happen to anybody”
“Love is so blind” . . .”Eff Love!”
Now Im not going to post the video, It is available on youtube for your viewing. P.S. Dont forget to watch Rihanna’s 2nd tell all interview on 20/20 when its made available.
The singer talked to Glamour magazine about her assault and its aftermath, including her shock when a photoshowing the effects of her injuries was leaked by police.
“It was humiliating; that is not a photo you would show to anybody,” she said. “I felt completely taken advantage of.
“I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it’s my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was [supposedly leaked by] two women.”
She spoke about how lonely she felt following the incident, despite the overwhelming support from family, friends and fans.
“I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day.”
Rihanna told the magazine the incident made her “stronger, wiser and more aware”.
“You don’t realise how much your decisions affect people you don’t even know, like fans.”