Rihanna
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Rihanna's dark, detached 'Unapologetic' offers little of the brashness its title suggests
Most critics have noted Unapologetic’s bleakness. It’s “a pretty depressing experience,” writes Alexis Petridis for the Guardian; it’s “soooooo sad,” says Matthew Perpetua at Buzzfeed. It’s difficult toargue. The most upbeat track is “Nobody’s Business,” an airy Chris Brown duet that quotes blues standard “Ain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do”—two facts that should speak for themselves. Even the Brown-free tracks seem like they could plausibly be about him, concerning themselves as they do with painful tangles of relationships. More
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(1)What is to become of Rihanna?
For those willing to pretend such a thing exists, the present century has, ten years in, produced exactly one incontrovertible addition to the Great American Songbook.
“Umbrella,” the new single from R&B songstress Rihanna, is not the best top-40 opus of the era (“Since U Been Gone,” “Ring the Alarm”), or the era’s most definitive (“Jesus Walks,” “Rehab”); it achieves the status of standard precisely by dint of its instant unremarkablility, its uncanny time– and place–lessness. “Umbrella” simply sounds as if it's always been here. More
