RIHANA Releases New Album - Unapologetic

 

(News &  Phot from Washington Post & The Sun Showbiz)

“Unapologetic,” Rihanna’s seventh album in seven years — and her last before a long break, if she’s smart — is a meditation on love in the age of restraining orders.

It’s a messy, blank-eyed, occasionally appealing train wreck on which a lot of time is spent bemoaning the attention paid to the difficulties in Rihanna’s personal life while simultaneously exploiting them. (Most notably this concerns her relationship with her abuser, Chris Brown, with whom she appears to be reunited.) “I was flying ’til you knocked me to the floor,” Rihanna coos on the neo-reggae track “No Love Allowed.” Or: “I pray that love don’t strike twice,” on the otherwise moving “Love Without Tragedy.”

 

 

The singer has compiled an all-star cast for her hotly anticipated fifth CD – and last week she whet fans’appetites by posting a picture from the vocal booth online.

Top pop-producing talent KANYE WEST, MIGUEL, HIT-BOY and, of course, her hubby JAY-Z are all in the studio working on the release.

Even legendary songwriter DIANE WARREN – who penned Aerosmith hit I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing – is on board.

And the plans to promote the CD are equally huge. Beyonce will perform at the Super Bowl in February – watched on the box by around 100million Americans – to coincide with the release.

Her new tot Blue Ivy is not going to go short on baby clothes