When I first saw the title of Rihanna’s new track – I thought… “Oh god – she thinks she’s Lady Gaga…”
When I first heard the track – I thought… “Oh god – she thinks she’s Beyonce…”
When the track was over I thought, “OK, she either thinks she’s great… or she’s just really confused.”
Rihanna can do one thing great – and that’s deliver on rhythmic, danceable tracks with a solid beat and a BPM above 120. She should NOT sing on a ballad because no, her vocals are not that of a songstress and DEFINITELY not that of Beyonce… or even Kelly Clarkson. “Russian Roulette” is that attempt at a ballad. It’s the first single off the new album, Rated R, out Nov. 23rd, and we hope it isn’t a good indicator of what’s to come. We can talk about whiny tone and the boring production that goes along with it – but why waste our time? The kick is solid, and the intro almost makes you feel like she may have done something epic. When the beat goes nowhere you realize this isn’t Disturbia. …Has she?
Oh, and Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun… but that doesn’t mean you need to add one at the end of your song!
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Its actually a mature, dark and deep song from Rihanna, MILES ahead of what she made us get used to, and I, never even remotely a fan of hers (never bought anything from her) love the track. Looking very much forward to the album, now. I guess you need to be / have been in a dark place to really get the song.
Tufas added these pithy words on
Oct 22 09 at
3:08 pm
adam added these pithy words on sorry guys but i gotta agree with chris.s on this.. its so boring and so unoriginal it sounds like it should have been written for kelly clarkson, and definitely shouldn’t have named it russian roulette, so close to poker face. lets hope the second single is what we’ve been used to from Rihanna, which sells records. Maybe she fell into the ol’ “good cd,bad cd, good cd,bad cd” slump
Mitch added these pithy words on
Oct 22 09 at
11:49 pm
Single is crap.
she cant have gone “good cd,bad cd, good cd,bad cd”, because the first was a 1 hit wonder, the second had 2 hits, the third had 4 very arguably 5 (shut up and drive went nowhere…) except shes been riding this last album too long as compared to her album a year thing. this single was an attempt to be edgy and risque and be noted as something more of a pp star, The thing is to be noticed you need the talent, or a lot of buzz and a good single. She sorta kinda has talent, she got punched in the face, but this single is crappy.“I guess you need to be / have been in a dark place to really get the song.”
thats crap
erik hassles don’t bring flowers, (normal or remix with MPHO) is a pretty damn morbid song if you think about it, but its catchy as hell.
rihanna failed
Daschund added these pithy words on
Oct 26 09 at
11:26 pm
