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Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad

Primary Artist
Rihanna
Album Title
Good Girl Gone Bad
Release Date
June 5, 2007 
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Review by Andy Kellman
When you've released a pair of albums containing a few monster singles and a considerable amount of unsteady, unassured material, why mess around the third time outNULL From beginning to end, Good Girl Gone Bad is as pop as pop gets in 2007, each one of its 12 songs a potential hit in some territory. Unlike Music Of The Sun or A Girl Like Me, neither Caribbean flavorings nor ballad ODs are part of the script, and there isn't an attempt to make something as theatrical as "Unfaithful." There is, however, another '80s hit involved: just as "SOS" appropriated Soft Cell's version of "Tainted Love," "Shut Up and Drive" turns New Order's "Blue Monday" into a sleek, forthcoming proposition, one that is as undeniable and rocking as Sugababes' 2002 U.K. Read More
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