What album do you think defines your music taste the most? When I first listened to the album Anti by Rihanna It felt like I was floating through space. When I closed my eyes, while listening to it I felt several types of emotions back-to-back. Listening to the songs you could tell this album is diverse. One song would make you feel sad, and another would make you want to start dancing. The cover of Anti shows Rihanna as a child holding a black balloon with a golden crown covering her eyes with a red and white background. Anti is an album with explicit lyrics.
Rihanna is a popular music artist who started her career in 2005. She has released eight albums with an upcoming ninth album named by her fans as ”R9”. The last album Rihanna released was on January 28, 2016, called Anti You might recognize these popular songs such as ”Diamonds”, “Work”, “Umbrella”, and ”We Found Love”. Rihanna is also known for her own beauty line called Fenty Beauty. Rihanna is the eighth most listened to music artist in the world on Spotify with over 90,000,000 monthly listeners. Rihanna won the following awards for her album Anti Favorite Soul/R&B Album, R&B Album of the Year, Top R&B Album, Album/Mixtape of the Year, Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, Outstanding Album, Best Art Direction For ”Needed me”, Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist, Best Album, Most Preformed R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for ”Work” and “Needed Me”, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for ”Work”, and finally Favorite R&B Artist. Rihanna’s Anti album has sold over 1.4 million copies in the U.S and was streamed over 1 billion times on Spotify.
The overall themes and feelings of Anti are self-love, heartbreak, self-improvement, and loss. The album makes you feel lonely, fragile, and exposed. These specific lyrics from Love on the Brain stood out to me:
“And, babe,
I’m fist-fighting with fire Just to get close to you
Can we burn something, babe?
And I’ll run for miles just to get a taste
Must be love on the brain
That’s got me feeling this way (Feeling this way)”
“No matter what I do, I’m no good without you
And I can’t get enough
Must be love on the brain”.
Every single track on Anti is amazing. I don’t think there is a single bad one. Anti is in the genres of pop and R&B and definitely is as good as other albums in those genres. Anti reveals a more emotional side of Rihanna. Critics call Anti one of Rihanna’s best work and I agree.
My overall rating of Anti by Rihanna is a ten out of ten. I believe Anti is a masterpiece and I think every single song on Anti is beautiful. Even after a little over nine years, Anti is still beloved by many people including myself.
