Album: Rihanna, Talk That Talk (Mercury)

Simon Price
Sunday 20 November 2011 01:00 GMT
Comments

Your support helps us to tell the story

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support allows us to keep sending journalists to the story.

The Independent is trusted by 27 million Americans from across the entire political spectrum every month. Unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock you out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. But quality journalism must still be paid for.

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference.

As off-the-peg as Primark, the Rihan-droid returns with more dancefloor fodder which has all the right bleeps in all the right places, but nothing to make you go "wow".

"Farewell", a shameless rewrite of Adele's "Someone Like You", will be impossible to avoid, but do try your best. "Suck my cockiness, lick my persuasion" is a sly, saucy pun. It's a shame that it, like every Rihanna vocal, is delivered in a voice which sounds as bored as a sex-line worker filing her nails.

Join our commenting forum

Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies

Comments

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in