A GIRL LIKE ME
| Rihanna
A GIRL LIKE ME
A Girl like Me is the second studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released on April 10, 2006 by Def Jam Recordings. For the production of the album, Rihanna worked with Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, StarGate, J. R. Rotem and label-mate Ne-Yo, who wrote the album's second single. A Girl like Me is a pop, reggae and R&B album influenced by Rihanna's Caribbean roots. The album also incorporates elements of dancehall and rock, as well as ballads, which music critics were ambivalent towards. - WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
this similar but superior follow-up doesn’t deliver anything else as ingenious as its lead single: Lightweight dancehall and R&B jams lack the single’s ear-bending boldness.
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SLANT
a record that almost identically alternates between the sunny dancehall/dub-pop of “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Dem Haters,” hip-hop-infused club bangers like “We Ride,” and gushy, adult-oriented ballads that are at least a decade too mature for the teenage singer’s minor vocal talents.
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The Observer
The sound of Bananarama had they holidayed in Barbados.
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popMATTERS
The Bajan Princess of the dancehall can "break it up" like nobody's business. And when you can drop it like it's on fire, there's no need to cool it off.
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sputnik music
A Girl Like Me, is still a pretty good pop album, which certainly makes for better listening then her first album.
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ALL MUSIC
Versatile urban dance-pop singer Rihanna gracefully avoids the sophomore slump with A Girl Like Me, a less tropical-flavored, more urban effort than her sun-and-fun debut.
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