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Loud

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S&M
4:04
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02
What's My Name?
4:23
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Cheers (Drink To That)
4:22
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Fading
3:27
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Only Girl (In The World)
3:55
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California King Bed
4:12
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Man Down
4:27
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Raining Men
3:45
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Complicated
4:18
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Skin
5:04
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Love The Way You Lie (Part II)
4:56
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Album Information
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Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 46:53

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eMusic Features

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2011: The Year of Europop

By Barry Walters, eMusic Contributor

During the last two decades, much of what wasn't rock - and even plenty of rock itself - had something to do with hip-hop. Pop tempos drifted to the middle, lyrics got more aggressive, melody narrowed and simplified, and gender lines stopped blurring. In Europe and much of the world, dance music radicalized pop with the synth sounds of the future, but upbeat club sounds rarely reached US radio beyond Madonna and Janet Jackson. We… more »

They Say All Music Guide

Loud has the misfortune of following Good Girl Gone Bad, one of the best pop albums of its decade, and Rated R, one of the most fascinating pop albums of the same time frame. That said, there’s enough quality content to maintain Rihanna’s visibility until her next truly eventful release. (This album, coming less than a year after Rated R, did not have much buildup.) The predatory StarGate/Sandy Vee-produced dance-pop (“S&M,” “Only Girl [In the World]”) is what works best here. Though neither one can touch “Rude Boy,” they do efficiently balance Rihanna’s playful and sinister sides. One song that sounds nothing like anything else in Rihanna’s past is “Skin,” a contender for anti-gravity slow jam of 2010 — a match for Trey Songz’s “Red Lipstick” and Usher’s “Mars vs Venus.” – Andy Kellman

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