The tracklisting for Rihanna's 7th studio album Unapologetic is:
1. Fresh Out The Runway
2. Diamonds
3. Numb Ft. Eminem
4. Pour It Up
5. Loveeeeeee Song Ft. Future
6. Jump
7. Right Now
8. What Now
9. Stay Ft. Mikky Ekko
10. Nobodies Business Ft. Chris Brown
11. Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary
12. Get It Over With
13. No Love Allowed
14. Lost In Paradise
Bonus Tracks
15. Half Of Me
16. Diamonds (Dave Audé 100 Extended)
17. Diamonds (Gregor Salto Downtempo Remix)
Below is the album sampler, and underneath that you'll be able to find a quick verdict on each track and what time to skip to if you only want to listen to a few of them. (Diamonds isn't included for obvious reasons & each snippet is 90 seconds long.)
(If this doesn't work you can find another sample here, although the last 2 tracks are swapped.)
'Fresh Off The Runway' 0:00 - This just sounds noisy, and the vocals are overproduced.
'Numb' 1:30 - Two words. Awful & repetitive.
'Pour It Up' 3:00 - Album filler, nothing more.
'Loveeeee Song' 4:30 - This track wants to be 'Skin', it fails.
'Jump' 6:00 - The buildup works. This is the best so far but I can't help feel Rihanna is a bit late to the dub game? (Ironically, she was one of the first artists to use it on her 2009 track 'Wait Your Turn'.)
'Right Now' 7:30 - Was David Guetta the producer by any chance? Lol...
'What Now' 9:00 - This may be v v good when I'm able to listen to this in full ~ tbc.
'Stay' 10:30 - Zzzzz.... #ballad
'Nobodies Business' 12:00 - A song about wanting to be with Chris Brown, featuring Chris Brown. It sounds like the 90s vomited on this track.
'Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary' 13:30 - This is another that may be very good played in full. (There's a James Dean reference in lyrics, I've heard another somewhere else recently?)
'Get It Over With' 15:00 - Honestly, don't even bother listening to this. Awful.
'No Love Allowed' 16:30 - This sounds like a bit like a sequel to 'Man Down', but I'm not sure if that's a good thing? Tbc~
'Lost In Paradise' 18:00 - What's that weird interlude at 18:30??? Verdict on this track is tbc....
'Half Of Me' (Bonus track.) 19:30 - 'You saw me on the television, but that's just that half of me' = #rihannaisarealperson The lyrics also seem to be saying 'half of it' or am I mishearing things? Ps it's a ballad.
'Half Of Me' (Bonus track.) 19:30 - 'You saw me on the television, but that's just that half of me' = #rihannaisarealperson The lyrics also seem to be saying 'half of it' or am I mishearing things? Ps it's a ballad.
Overall, I really think that Rihanna needs to stop with this annual, halfarsed release schedule she has established. TAKE A BREAK! I might change my mind when I hear the whole album, but after listening to this I'm not excited at all. Especially when there's promise of a much more exciting album coming soon....
Thanks for reading!
AB x
