Good Girl Gone Bad by Rihanna

Pros: Pop music in 2007 has rarely, if ever, been this good.
Cons: Nothing substantial from an artistic standpoint, but who cares??

Although it's nothing more than catchy pop music, someone's gotta provide the soundtrack for those beach parties, right? That was how I concluded my review of Rihanna's last album, 2006's "A Girl Like Me". I was pleasantly surprised by ...

Pros: Fun, lively and crackles with energy. Great pop songs!
Cons: None, this album is a blast to listen to.

Rihanna shimmied her way into the collective conscious after her smash “Pon De Replay” in the summer of 2005 and she’s basically been there ever since. Her debut album Music of The Sun was memorable and one I still spin fairly often. ...

Pros: State-of-the-art production. "Umbrella" is a powerful and propulsive single.
Cons: A deathly absence of melodic hooks. All style, no substance.

Having churned out three albums in as many years, 19-year-old Rihanna has been surprisingly productive in the hip-pop field as of late, racking up an impressive number of hits with influences ranging from reggae to synth-dance. Her 2007 release “Good ...

Pros: Umbrella is a smash hit, a few other promising hits.
Cons: The bad over-weighs the good.

Rihanna has taken the world by storm. She has released her debut album back in 2003 called Music Of The Sun and the year after, she released her second album, A Girl Like Me. Both albums were hits and have been well received by critics and ...

Pros: uptempo tracks are her element, sleek and sexy, edgier, not much emphasis on vocals
Cons: ballads are generally mediocre, not great vocals, some obnoxious lyrics, some bad production

Image is everything in the music industry, at least for more mainstream artists. How you choose to present yourself and (more importantly) how you’re perceived can help determine your stay on the scene, as well as who exactly buys your records. If you ...

Pros: Genre diversity, Rihanna's voice (no, really!), every song is a potential hit
Cons: Should have left one or two tracks off the album

Good girl gone bad is the third album by the 19-year-old Barbadian singer Rihanna Fenty. Her last album A girl like me, released in April of 2006, went to sell more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. Unlike her first two albums ...

Pros: Well-crafted, entertaining popmuzak. 'Scuse me, make that mus_ic.
Cons: I'd like to speak against the idea that Rihanna can't...OK yeah, she can't sing.

It all started with Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds. After reading a milli a milli a milli...on glowing reviews of that, I thought to myself "damn, is the guy who I thought represented the gayest, most testosterone-deficient music in ...

Pros: The best pop album of 2007, every song is a winner! (SERIOUSLY)
Cons: About 20 seconds in the middle of "Question Existing".

Rihanna is back with her third album "Good Girl Gone Bad" which she co-produced and it's her best and most consistent album yet. Every song here is a winner and this album will definitely bang in the clubs. I was already intrigued early on by it's ...

Pros: A handful of really great pop/R&B/dance songs, smooth production...
Cons: ...Rihanna hasn't proved herself as an artist yet, a couple of really bad tracks

If you had told me a year ago that I would buy, and much less enjoy, a Rihanna CD, I probably would have laughed in your face. I’ve never been much of a Rihanna fan; I found all of her radio singles (particularly Pon De Replay and SOS) ...

Pros: lovely variety of genres and textures
Cons: the songs are a bit inconsistent

Even if you're not taken with the current hip/hop soul scene, the steady rise of Rihanna has been one of the more interesting stories to note. Her relevance hitherto hasn't been necessarily on record as much as her assumed love life but hopefully her ...

Pros: Rock fused with pop, Catchy hooks, "Question Existing"
Cons: "Say It" ruins the album's pace

Rihanna is a hit machine. Her debut single, "Pon de Replay," was played throughout radios and whenever you turned on the television, it was there. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100(thanks to my girl Mariah Carey for stealing the #1 spot) and best ...