Rihanna: Rated R review | CD reviews | Music – Times Online

by Jonathan

Maybe you shouldn’t, but it’s impossible to listen to Rihanna’s new record without hunting for clues about her feelings towards Chris Brown, the former boyfriend and fellow singer whose vicious assault on her in Los Angeles in February still fills the gossip pages. And boy are the clues there. On her new album — which is remarkably her fourth, at the age of only 21 — the R&B star from Barbados has come back with all guns blazing: lyrically, tonally, vocally.

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