Rihanna’s Anti possibly the album of the year already?

Pop princess Rihanna is normally known for her clean cut songs about diamonds and people making her feel like the only girl in the world, but in recent years Rihanna has become known as bad girl ri ri, the pop princess that’s trying to distance herself away from that image of the clean cut wholesome pop star. And four years after her last album Unapologetic Rihanna is back with her 8th studio album Anti and to say it’s not an incredible album well that’s just a massive lie.

From the opening song “Consideration “ you know that with this album Rihanna is making a statement about who she is and the type of music that she wants to make, in past years Rihanna has been known for taking a back seat when it comes to making her albums but with this album it’s a completely different story. Two lines that particularly stick out to me in the first track is “I’ve got to do things my own way darling, will you ever let me will you ever respect me “and “let me cover your shit in glitter I can make it gold “.

This song to me is Rihanna’s way of saying fuck you I’m going to do this album the way I want to do it, let me be the artist I want to be rather than having her label dictate to her about the album they want her to make, which to me seems like a long time coming for her. I would go through Anti track by track and tell you how brilliant each track is but I don’t think that this review would ever get finished considering its already taken me almost two hours to write three paragraphs. Obviously a couple of tracks stick out to me more than others, including James Joint, Desperado, her stupidly good cover of tame impala’s New Person, Same Old Mistakes, produced by Kevin Parker himself and of course the last three tracks on the album Love On The Brain, Higher and Close To You,(so basically all of them really) which to me are the most personal and emotional songs that Rihanna has ever written and released. Personally these three songs to me feel like just Rihanna in a room with a piano, the emotions behind these songs are so raw and they seem to just right seep through and you cant help but want to ask if Rihanna if she’s alright and if she needs a hug and maybe a cup of tea.

 Overall this album to me is just incredible it’s not even been out for a whole day yet and I’ve already listened to it at least ten times, this album to me is the album that shows us the real Rihanna, whether or not you’ve been a fan of Rihanna from the very start or Anti is the first album of hers you’ve listened to, this album shows us snippets of the real Rihanna but still gives us the image of the pop princess with the amazing voice.



Rihanna plays Wembley stadium with support from The Weeknd and Big Sean on the 24th of June.

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