October 11, 2012

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Less than a year after releasing Talk That Talk, Rihanna is back with her seventh album in seven years, Unapologetic.

She took to Twitter on Thursday to reveal the cover art, on which she strips down with nothing but black and white words scrawled across her naked body. A tattoo of the Egyptian goddess Isis, which she dedicated to her late grandmother, can also be seen.

“Find the #ALBUMTITLE in #allBLACKeverything on the #COVER,” she told her Navy.

The first single “Diamonds” currently occupies the No. 18 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album is expected to feature contributions from Stargate and Ne-Yo, who penned two songs.

RiRi, who leads the nominations at the American Music Awards, will kick off her Diamonds World Tour in March 2013.

Unapologetic is set for release on November 20, 2012.

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I like it...Kinda reminds me of Discipline cover in a way

i like it. real iconic looking.

paisleypark4 said:

I like it...Kinda reminds me of Discipline cover in a way

Without the latex and the lube.

2020 said:

And where is the title "Dumbass" and "I support men who beat on women"

2020 said:

And where is the title "Dumbass" and "I support men who beat on women"

2020 said:

And where is the title "Dumbass" and "I support men who beat on women"

$250 Unapologetic Platinum Edition

October 29, 2012

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Rihanna has announced plans to sell a platinum edition of her new album for $250.

The singer will release new record Unapologetic in the on Nov 20, and has bundled the collection with other exclusive products to create the ramped-up edition.

The Diamonds Executive Platinum Box edition includes a copy of the album, a 2GB credit card-style USB, a unisex T-shirt with a Michael Muller photo printed on, and seven art print 12x15 lithographs.

It will also contain three device adhesives featuring Rihanna's Unapologetic cover, logo and image, seven laptop stickers, a vinyl featuring remixes of her single 'Diamonds' and a View-Master containing 3D images depicting her style transformation.

A 40-page custom Rihanna Notebook with handwritten notes, a personal note by Rihanna to her Navy and an exclusive fan mosaic poster will also be bundled.

The Diamonds Executive Platinum Box is numbered and there will be limited copies available.

The platinum edition of Rihanna's Unapologetic will be released on December 11.

Rihanna shares the road to Unapologetic.

Damn she just keeps putting em out like an assembly line

Identity said:

$250 Unapologetic Platinum Edition

October 29, 2012

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Rihanna has announced plans to sell a platinum edition of her new album for $250.

The singer will release new record Unapologetic in the on Nov 20, and has bundled the collection with other exclusive products to create the ramped-up edition.

The Diamonds Executive Platinum Box edition includes a copy of the album, a 2GB credit card-style USB, a unisex T-shirt with a Michael Muller photo printed on, and seven art print 12x15 lithographs.

It will also contain three device adhesives featuring Rihanna's Unapologetic cover, logo and image, seven laptop stickers, a vinyl featuring remixes of her single 'Diamonds' and a View-Master containing 3D images depicting her style transformation.

A 40-page custom Rihanna Notebook with handwritten notes, a personal note by Rihanna to her Navy and an exclusive fan mosaic poster will also be bundled.

The Diamonds Executive Platinum Box is numbered and there will be limited copies available.

The platinum edition of Rihanna's Unapologetic will be released on December 11.

dayum!!! That's the ultimate "deluxe edition"!!! $250???

TRACK LIST

Exhausting. She's worse than Beyonce now.

This new CD is going to be straight fire, ya heard ya boy, STRAIGHT FIYAH!!! Mad collabos and super producers on every hot track!!! FIRE!!!! Rihanna about to take over the world then give it back it's freedom then take it over again. FIYAH!!!!

I'm suprised Diamonds made the top 10, but radios will push any Rihanna song down peoples throats

I have a feeling this album will sell even less then talk that talk.

Surely you have already pre-ordered the Platinum Edition, haven't you?

Also what happened to letting albums breath? and hell getting people worked up about an album.

She released her song at the end of september and only 1 month & a half later she is releasing the album

Identity said:

$250 Unapologetic Platinum Edition

October 29, 2012

Link

Rihanna has announced plans to sell a platinum edition of her new album for $250.

The singer will release new record Unapologetic in the on Nov 20, and has bundled the collection with other exclusive products to create the ramped-up edition.

The Diamonds Executive Platinum Box edition includes a copy of the album, a 2GB credit card-style USB, a unisex T-shirt with a Michael Muller photo printed on, and seven art print 12x15 lithographs.

It will also contain three device adhesives featuring Rihanna's Unapologetic cover, logo and image, seven laptop stickers, a vinyl featuring remixes of her single 'Diamonds' and a View-Master containing 3D images depicting her style transformation.

A 40-page custom Rihanna Notebook with handwritten notes, a personal note by Rihanna to her Navy and an exclusive fan mosaic poster will also be bundled.

The Diamonds Executive Platinum Box is numbered and there will be limited copies available.

The platinum edition of Rihanna's Unapologetic will be released on December 11.

Mom is gonna love her Christmas present this year!

Unapologetic Track listing:

01. “Fresh Out the Runway”
02. “Diamonds”
03. “Numb” feat. Eminem
04. “Pour It Up”
05. “Loveeeeeee Song” feat. Future
06. “Jump”
07. “Right Now”
08. “What Now”
09. “Stay” feat. Mikky Ekko
10. “Nobodies Business” feat. Chris Brown
11. “Love Without Tragedy”/”Mother Mary”
12. “Get It Over With”
13. “No Love Allowed”
14. “Lost in Paradise”
15. “Half of Me” (Bonus)

Her vocal on Diamonds has got to be her worst vocal ever! She's never impressed me with any of her vocals but this is total shit. Bored, lifeless, bland singing.

Gunsnhalen said:

Also what happened to letting albums breath? and hell getting people worked up about an album.

She released her song at the end of september and only 1 month & a half later she is releasing the album

The thing is that She isnt the one churning them out, her writers and producers etc..are, also, though she is doing 1 a year she has shown very very little growth between records, and NO ONE on this earth can compare her 1 album a year to say Prince, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, etc...those cats were all putting out different records, Rihanna has almost no growth and seriously i cant tell the difference between albums or tell u what single is from what.

22-minute album preview. Check it.

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Official vid for "Diamonds".

I'll unapologetically not buy it.

Rihanna Feat. Kanye West - "Diamonds (Remix)"

Listen here.

The new Rihanna is already available for purchase on iTunes, but you can't buy the album in it's entirety in one purchase - you have to d/load each individual track at $1.29.

Ripoff.

But so far, i'm liking it.

The irony of this album title is that it totally fits her. Not a visible sign of any talent but she's very unapologetic about the fact that she's a talentless hack who always looks out of place on stage. Why does this chick always seem so "basic" on stage. And she's been at this for years now? Wake me when this is over...

Here's the thing: on the surface, it sounded like so much fun.

Seven glamorous cities (or, okay — six and Toronto) enjoying a private plane, intimate performances, free hotels and star-studded after parties with Rihanna.

Maybe, MAYBE I idly entertained thoughts of Rihanna and me, walking arm and arm into one of those cheap nail salons. We'd wear huge-logo sunglasses and read about her in foot-bath-splashed US magazines, still so giddy from brunch that I tell that dude-with-the-funny-balls-story that even the nail technicians laugh softly while gently removing her previous Swarovski gel pedi.

But after that first, coruscating appearance, Rihanna was gone. And I do mean gone.

I hesitate to say that she looked visibly drunk or generally "on some of the hard shit" during her performances, so let me just say that we came to expect a three hour delay before she went on every night.

She barely does any of her own singing, which isn't a huge pearl-clutcher, but at least Britney danced a little. For Rihanna, just licking her lips during a song constitutes a taxing, elaborate physical routine that deserves a couple of mid-performance tequila shots.

The shows are hilariously rote. "What the fuck is up, Mexico City?" "What the fuck is up, Toronto?" "What the fuck is up, Paris?" "What the fuck is up, [Insert Epcot Center City Here]?" followed by a tight sixty minutes of lip synching and lethargic thigh-slapping.

At least Johnny Cash did his own singing, and when he was too drunk to do that, occasionally collapsed into the footlights to give everybody a little thrill.

The parts we love the best are when she "ad libs," gives a "special fan" an HTC phone (hahahahhahahahah), or pretends like she "just heard" someone request "What's My Name?", which she somehow sings while holding the mic at her crotch, air-chewing invisible Big League Chew and staring into the wings.

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