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Track List
01) Phresh Out the Runway
02) Diamonds
03) Numb
04) Pour It Up
05) Loveeeeeee Song
06) Jump
07) Right Now
08) What Now
09) Stay
10) Nobody's Business
11) Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary
12) Get It Over With
13) No Love Allowed
14) Lost in Paradise
01) Phresh Out the Runway
02) Diamonds
03) Numb
04) Pour It Up
05) Loveeeeeee Song
06) Jump
07) Right Now
08) What Now
09) Stay
10) Nobody's Business
11) Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary
12) Get It Over With
13) No Love Allowed
14) Lost in Paradise
3:42
3:45
3:25
2:41
4:16
4:24
3:01
4:03
4:00
3:36
6:58
3:31
4:09
3:35
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First Released
2012
Pop
In Love
Rock/Pop
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3,000,000 copies
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Unapologetic is the seventh studio album by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, released on November 19, 2012, by Def Jam Recordings. The album was recorded between June and November 2012, during promotion of her sixth studio album, Talk That Talk (2011). As executive producer, Rihanna enlisted previous collaborators The-Dream, David Guetta, Chase & Status, and StarGate to work alongside new collaborators such as Mike Will Made-It and Labrinth. Its music incorporates pop, EDM, and dubstep styles, much in the vein of Talk That Talk and Rated R (2009). The album features guest vocals from ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, Eminem, Future, and Mikky Ekko.
Upon its release, Unapologetic received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who found its music interesting, although some criticized its lyrical content. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 238,000 copies, becoming Rihanna's first number one album on the chart and best-selling debut week of her career. The album also became Rihanna's third, fourth and fifth consecutive number one album in the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland, respectively.
"Diamonds" was released as the album's lead single on September 27, 2012. It peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, in addition to topping charts in twelve other countries worldwide. The album was promoted by the 777 Tour prior to its release, and will be supported by the Diamonds World Tour beginning in March 2013.
User Album Review
Unapologetic is Rihanna’s seventh album in as many years, and makes for a demanding listen. The "drunk workhorse" character of the Barbadian singer, who frequented previous albums in some capacity, is absent here.
Instead of anything cheeky or fun, this set is laced with the very real presence of someone using the spectacle of pop music to inadvertently condone abuse.
The Chris Brown duet, Nobody's Business, is inevitably the central attraction of this album. It’s a wonderfully light throwback to late-80s piano house; but its lyrics make the listener feel like an intruder. “You'll always be the one that I wanna come home to,” Rihanna sings, marching on down the aisle, caught up in Brown’s cooing response.
It’s not new for people to write songs about abusive relationships – recorded by the likes of Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington, the 1922 blues standard Ain’t Nobody’s Business explicitly addresses violence against women. But it is perhaps new for songwriters to be commissioned specifically for the task.
Bold production disguises some of the bad taste – but lines like “Like a bullet your love hit me to the core / I was flying ‘til you knocked me to the floor”, from No Love Allowed, are uncomfortably balanced between true love and awkward acrimony. And the mixture of emotions across Unapologetic just doesn’t sit right.
On What Now, Rihanna takes a look in the mirror and tells us that she doesn’t know how to cry. On Jump, she preaches that she won’t be chasing her ex; perhaps the Ginuwine sample and multipack of Chase & Status bass drops inhibit her conviction.
Throughout, the context and rancour can’t be shaken – but at least there’s clarity between Rihanna’s defiance on the club tracks and the heavy sadness in the ballads.
Maybe Unapologetic is proof that we should have more faith in young audiences’ reasoned understanding. Maybe it’s a hammering of the point that pop music shouldn’t shy away from real life’s sadness. But more realistically, Unapologetic seems to position Rihanna as a human being dragged headfirst into a breakdown, and somehow surviving it.
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Unapologetic is the seventh studio album by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, released on November 19, 2012, by Def Jam Recordings. The album was recorded between June and November 2012, during promotion of her sixth studio album, Talk That Talk (2011). As executive producer, Rihanna enlisted previous collaborators The-Dream, David Guetta, Chase & Status, and StarGate to work alongside new collaborators such as Mike Will Made-It and Labrinth. Its music incorporates pop, EDM, and dubstep styles, much in the vein of Talk That Talk and Rated R (2009). The album features guest vocals from ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, Eminem, Future, and Mikky Ekko.
Upon its release, Unapologetic received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who found its music interesting, although some criticized its lyrical content. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 238,000 copies, becoming Rihanna's first number one album on the chart and best-selling debut week of her career. The album also became Rihanna's third, fourth and fifth consecutive number one album in the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland, respectively.
"Diamonds" was released as the album's lead single on September 27, 2012. It peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, in addition to topping charts in twelve other countries worldwide. The album was promoted by the 777 Tour prior to its release, and will be supported by the Diamonds World Tour beginning in March 2013.
User Album Review
Unapologetic is Rihanna’s seventh album in as many years, and makes for a demanding listen. The "drunk workhorse" character of the Barbadian singer, who frequented previous albums in some capacity, is absent here.
Instead of anything cheeky or fun, this set is laced with the very real presence of someone using the spectacle of pop music to inadvertently condone abuse.
The Chris Brown duet, Nobody's Business, is inevitably the central attraction of this album. It’s a wonderfully light throwback to late-80s piano house; but its lyrics make the listener feel like an intruder. “You'll always be the one that I wanna come home to,” Rihanna sings, marching on down the aisle, caught up in Brown’s cooing response.
It’s not new for people to write songs about abusive relationships – recorded by the likes of Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington, the 1922 blues standard Ain’t Nobody’s Business explicitly addresses violence against women. But it is perhaps new for songwriters to be commissioned specifically for the task.
Bold production disguises some of the bad taste – but lines like “Like a bullet your love hit me to the core / I was flying ‘til you knocked me to the floor”, from No Love Allowed, are uncomfortably balanced between true love and awkward acrimony. And the mixture of emotions across Unapologetic just doesn’t sit right.
On What Now, Rihanna takes a look in the mirror and tells us that she doesn’t know how to cry. On Jump, she preaches that she won’t be chasing her ex; perhaps the Ginuwine sample and multipack of Chase & Status bass drops inhibit her conviction.
Throughout, the context and rancour can’t be shaken – but at least there’s clarity between Rihanna’s defiance on the club tracks and the heavy sadness in the ballads.
Maybe Unapologetic is proof that we should have more faith in young audiences’ reasoned understanding. Maybe it’s a hammering of the point that pop music shouldn’t shy away from real life’s sadness. But more realistically, Unapologetic seems to position Rihanna as a human being dragged headfirst into a breakdown, and somehow surviving it.
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