What do you think of the new album ANTi released by Rihanna 20 16?

This is an album that can be explored in all directions. At the beginning of the planning, it was claimed to be the pursuit of "I want to sing 15" album, from the first single of my predecessor for 45 seconds, to the bitch paying back the money, and then to the whole process. It is difficult for you to tell whether the ANTI in front of you is a work in the original direction or how many compromises there are. But what is certain is that no matter a year ago or now, ANTI is doomed not to be a mainstream pop dance album, so those friends who want to listen to Umbrella will never find satisfaction in this album. Rihanna has been singing for ten years. Generally speaking, she is becoming more and more self-centered. Some people say that this album is still full of love, love and sex. But in fact, these are Rihanna's own things, and they are also the theme of an entire album (except the opening song): an emotional experience that has been repeated since the breakup. On the whole, ANTI can be roughly divided into three parts (excluding the Intro part): Intro's opening song is not in line with the theme of the whole album, but it mainly talks about Rihanna herself and the positioning of the album. Rihanna told you from the beginning not to expect original pop dancers: I have to do things in my own way, dear, will you let me do it? Will you respect me? No ... I need you to give my image a rest from the face I see now. Honey, would you mind giving my image a rest from the pain now? This can't be explained clearly. She wants to make this album in her own way, and she wants to show her true self. This also corresponds to the album title ANTI, to resist the existing impression of the market and ordinary people on her. Part 1 James United ~ Work is divided into the development of the overall theme of the album, and the musical style gradually becomes stronger from a misty episode, which emotionally reveals that the protagonist of the story gradually deviates from sweet lingering: busy kissing ~ kissing better ~ (need) work. Kiss Better and Work are the most marketable songs on this album. The former has a beautiful melody and catchy chorus, while the latter mixes reggae rhythm to create a tropical island style, and Drake sings casually with a knife sideways. Part2 Desperado ~ The same Ol' mistake mainly talks about the change of the heroine's mentality after leaving her ex-boyfriend, and the whole tone suddenly turns black. Desperado told me that she met a desperate man, and she decided to leave with him: you must leave here, and you won't leave me. I know you won't, because we have common interests, you need me, and you haven't left me (corresponding to baby, don't leave your job, don't leave me in the street). Woo is a song with strong potted flavor and potted theme. It's about being lonely in the middle of the night. Call your ex to smoke a pipe and have sex, but don't make a mistake. I really don't love you and I don't care about you (who knows). Need me adds a little feminist meaning to the theme of entanglement with ex (or other men): make it clear, do you need me? Yes, I said it was a typical song about sex. Rihanna is generous and honest about her needs in this sex, but as can be seen from the lyrics, the object at this time is probably not the man who appeared before, but an ONS. "Old Trouble" directly covers the album of "Tamed Impala" last year. It shows her reflection on this part and the battle between heaven and man: is this in pursuit of pleasure or just repeating mistakes? Apart from Same Ol' mission, this part can be said to be the best black genre album fragment in Rihanna's own history. While maintaining a relatively consistent musicality, it also describes the mood changes after breaking up in many ways. The backbone of the whole album. Part3 never ends ~ Close to your lyrical music, it tells the heroine's sobriety and the pursuit of old love after love is broken and destroyed, but there is no more sex. "Never Ending" is an unexpected folk song, which samples Dido's famous song "Thank you". Jump out of the darkness and entanglement of the previous part and describe her awakening and reflection on the previous part. In "Love on the Brain" and "Higher", Rihanna's experiments on her voice and singing skills reached a new level, including retro orchestration, which described another drunken night's longing for old love. I believe that there are not a few people who have done this before. You should be able to find a strong * * * sound from these two songs. As the ending song of the album, "Close to You" is about the morning when I got drunk and called my ex. After all, how should the two sides deal with this past relationship? Whether to let go completely or be gentle for a while, like every such love, there is no answer. This last part can be said to be the key part of the whole album, mostly a new style that Rihanna has never tried, and it is also the last highlight of the album. Rihanna's performance is also quite remarkable. It is not difficult to understand the emotional trend of this album by separating these three parts. Personally, the greatest advantage of this album is that even if every song is selected, the quality is still excellent. While giving consideration to the urban tone (and pushing it forward a lot), I hit a beautiful ball with lyricism at the end of the album. On the goal of abandoning dancing Pop, the only thing that can be counted as Pop is kissing, and even subtly contaminated with some prince breath, which has made a lot of progress. But there are still some things that can be carved in this album, such as whether it can be smooth in the evolution of genre? I don't mean to compare only one chestnut in recent years, which is the same as R&; B is a multi-style album, and Beyonce's album of the same name has done a lot better in this respect. The above is "my evaluation of the ANTI we have now", but there are still some questions that cannot be explained: 1 What does Rihanna want to express with the album ANTI? What was the one a year ago like? How much compromise has Rihanna made for the current rebellion? Why didn't you get three singles released before? Where did they go? However, the answers to these questions are almost impossible to prove, so we can only speculate subjectively: First of all, I think there is a great difference between the anti-and the anti-before-tempering, which can be seen from the first single FourFiveSeconds at that time. Although it is similar to some songs of this album in style, such as Never Ending+Hysterical Singing+Higher, it is slightly different from this album in content. Personally, the deviation of the content is also one of the reasons why the previous three singles have not been reversed. Although "FourFiveSeconds" is about quarreling and heartbreak, it is a bit out of tune with the story of this album. BBHMM is a typical black song "I am the best", and American Oxygen focuses on American immigrants. Although they (at least the first two songs) can easily find a suitable position for the album, they are not quite in tune with the narrative mentioned above. However, they (at least 45s and AO) are still close to the original words about this album, such as "Singing for Fifteen Years" and "Soul". There is a saying that before the release of the original album, Travis Scott joined the team and gave the album a "darker" music style. In addition, the previous 45s scores failed to meet expectations, so the production team began to remake the whole album and recorded some new songs such as Work. Throughout 15, ANTI has changed considerably. Do you remember the news of those producers and collaborators? Except Kiss It Better and Love On The Brain and Higher, none of them appeared in front of us in the end (who knows how far Gotham is from the original book for one night). I think many of the original songs in this album were directly extracted and replaced with many black music elements. On this basis, the team reconstructed a general story to make the album more reasonable in narrative content. And the more "soul" part, I don't know where they went, why didn't even Deluxe show up? Will there be anti-2-2? Will there be a revised EP? Or just stuff it into the next upcoming album? Nobody knows. As for the anti-will that this album wants to express, what is the biggest question left by this album at present? What does Rihanna want to borrow this album for? The only explanation in the past is that she used to be Dance Pop, but compared with artwork of this album, it feels like killing a chicken without a knife. Considering the later anti-diarrhea unlocking activity, which was also done later, people have to doubt that she has the next move. Another interesting thing is that Kanye, one of the executive productions at that time, seems to have had a similar experience with ANTI. Several singles released that year (including 45) all disappeared from the album. Do Kanye and Riri want to do a project to launch those songs together in the next time? Of course, it is more likely that only these two people who are very popular in music feel tired of playing, so they give up (? ￣д￣)?