Anti
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Anti
Anti is the eighth studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released on January 27, 2016, through Westbury Road and Roc Nation. The singer began planning the record in 2014, at which time she left her previous label Def Jam and joined Roc Nation. Work continued into 2015, during which she released three singles including "FourFiveSeconds", which reached the top 10 in several markets; they were ultimately removed from the final track listing. Anti was made available for free digital download on January 27 through Tidal and was released to online music stores for paid purchase on January 29. -WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
Sex, drugs, freedom.
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Pitchfork
ANTI is a rich and conflicted pop record.
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billboard
A closer listen, though, shows Rihanna harnessing the moody, intimate sounds for a novel purpose: to open up and let us peer into how complicated her adult life has become.
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NME
seeming more like a low-key mixtape than of the most-anticipated records of the last few years.
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The Telegraph
It will satisfy the appetite of fans.
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CoS
Rihanna takes risks and disregards convention in a way that only a true superstar could.
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The Guardian
brave, bold … and confused.
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TIME
Anti Rewrites the Rules of Her Career.
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Entertainment
Anti proves Rihanna should play by her own rules more often.
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AV/MUSIC
a record about relationships.
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CLASH
It feels real, it feels soulful.
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Rap Reviews
Rihanna delivers the best LP of her career.
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ALL MUSIC
her most compelling record to date.
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Los Angeles Times
Her most adventurous by far.
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INDEPENDENT
Such attitude; no apologies.
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NOW
Anti is incredibly satisfying and sufficiently distinct from her other efforts.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
It’s a charged bleeding heart of sponsorship and exclusivity thrown into the throat of Yosemite.
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Pretty Much Amazing
What we have instead is a brooding, oddly sequenced, and scattered collection that defies easy categorization.
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HIP HOP DX
In many ways, ANTI is a step in the right direction for Rihanna, creatively.
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The 405
She doesn’t have to try to be real. Rihanna just is.
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The Line of Best Fit
As a whole, Anti might not be as provocative of a statement as Rihanna hopes for it to be, but it’s still fascinating to see an artist in the midst of a metamorphosis.
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SPIN
it’s a musical step sideways but an artistic step up.
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Boston Globe
an interesting artistic curveball in her heretofore hits-driven career.
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DROWNED IN SOUND
Anti is defiantly low key with very little to quicken the pulse.
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SLANT
The ultimate impression the album leaves isn't just that of an artist who failed to follow through on her vision, but who never bothered to conceive one in the first place.
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The New York Times
Anti is a chaotic and scattershot album.
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popMATTERS
Sadly, with Anti the intent and promise is more admirable than the end result. There’s a certain dreary joylessness to it that saps any energy the songs might possess.
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IDOLATOR
ANTI finds the Bad Gal owning her crown as a fearless, somber and frustratingly unpredictable artist.
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CRACK
It’s driven by undertones and nuance – rather than undergoing a full reinvention.
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POPFECTION
She was raw and honest and most aspects of this album are very well executed.
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Smart Rapper
It sounds like it’s something you listen to after you break up with someone if you want to sit around and cry to yourself about it
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Teen Vogue
This project is as close to unplugged as Rihanna gets.
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VIBE
Rihanna's 'ANTI' Is Gold... If You’re Willing To Give It A Try
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The Stanford Daily
The strongest tracks on “ANTI” are not the ones that go to stylistic extremes. Instead, they’re the ones that allow Rihanna to slow down and explore the power and range of her own unmistakable voice.
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Digital Spy
Flashes of genius, but a bit of an Anti-climax.
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Vogue
Anti Album Is Anti-Pop—And That’s Not a Bad Thing.
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CELEBUZZ
The first thing most people will notice about ANTI is that it is lacking even a single signature Rihanna smash.
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abc NEWS
this album takes you on an uneasy journey that on some level you have to respect.
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DJBOOTH
Rihanna is singing unlike I'd ever heard her, I was grabbed from the beginning.
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VULTURE
Anti feels like the beginning of the end of something we’ve been watching in slow motion for a very long time now: the death of the Big Album as a pop star’s primary means of artistic expression.
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Parle'
Anti‘s theme is love – its intensity, complexity, and all of the captivating elements that make it one of the most intoxicating emotions that can be expressed by a human.
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THRILLIST
ANTI' IS A BEAUTIFUL, TRIUMPHANT MESS YOU MUST EXPERIENCE.
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Daily Review
Anti delivers an attitude-filled collection of tough talking, largely downbeat tracks.
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sputnik music
ANTI those few good moments. I’m not entirely familiar with Rihanna’s work, and frankly this album doesn’t give me any desire to look back any further.
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entertainment.ie
it's possibly the most interesting thing she's done to date. That doesn't mean it's necessarily the best – but it's undoubtedly intriguing.
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LA Music Blog
this album seems specifically designed to take Rihanna’s music somewhere different.
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Music Times
If cohesive is a new term for "single-less", then sure ANTI is cohesive.
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Nerd With An Afro
the quality of these songs genuinely surprised me.
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Music and Other Drugs
Each track tells a delicate and intentional tale of Rihanna’s past experiences as well as an introspective look into the journey of her life.
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The Atlantic
This is an album about how badass it is to take your own way.
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Vox
Anti swaps party anthems for indulgent stoner jams — and it's her best album yet.
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Immortal Reviews
ANTI definitely has a powerful message to deliver - girl power. Love isn’t just a man’s game.
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Cosmopolitan
Rihanna gets weird on Anti, but that's a good thing.
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ThomasBleach
This album will encourage other artists to take more risks with their music and not heavily worry about what the record labels want or deem “hit ready”.
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We Heart Ricky
ANTi is here for the Rihanna Navy to digest.
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The Man The Muse
ANTI is a step forward in a cool new direction for Ms. Fenty and honestly, you have to be kinda cool to get it.
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The FTR Blog
Anti is definitely not a typical Rihanna album.
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Hot New Hip Hop
Rihanna focuses less on the singles and more on the album, perhaps for the first time in her career.
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Roman's Rap Up
"Anti" Provides Refreshing Sound for Fans.
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Fact Mag
ANTI is no fun, and that’s no problem
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DEMO
All the songs sound rough and unkempt, the arrangement seems spontaneous.
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Base Mentality
It’s certainly not a terrible project, but there’s small gems of greatness which hint at what ANTI could have been, a frustratingly unreachable peek into something that never was.
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Ranting About Music
despite the occasional misstep, it’s quite good, and proves she can do more than singles pop.
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The Reel Deal
this album is an applaud-worthy effort.
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246 MIXTAPES
delivering her most intimate, competent and complete project for her decade-long career so far.
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beebee
“Anti” is the bold step towards independence & free creative expression that Rihanna makes.
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The Edge
ANTI is a rebellious blend of styles that leads the listener on a journey fraught with twists and turns.
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TREBLE
I don’t know what her fanbase will think of it—outside of the diehards who’d love it no matter what—and I’m not entirely sure what I feel about it. But unlike past Rihanna albums, I can see myself coming back and puzzling over it more.
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Her Campus
Anti marks a drastic 180 against today’s commercial giants like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.
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TEAM curtains
All in all, ANTI might very well be Rihanna’s best album.
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Breath Heavy
she’s more honest than before, sexy with a new maturity, and as experimental as ever as she pushes herself lyrically, vocally and artistically.
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The Early Registration
ANTI finds itself occupying an entirely different genre of sounds.
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The Silhouette
Anti is a solo Friday at home with a bottle of wine. It works, because it’s good.
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The Indie Sound
While ANTI may have gotten one more star with more upbeat tracks, expect to see even more edgy music videos come out, if “Bitch Better Have My Money’s” video is any indication.
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The Brock Press
This is some of Rihanna’s best work in recent years.
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spectrum pulse
it's certainly more thought-provoking than I'd ever expect a Rihanna record to be.
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exclaim
ANTI is perhaps her most complete and confident record to date.
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Critic of Music
When Rihanna doesn't care, she's the most genuine.
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Source
While ANTI is admirably experimental (if oddly downbeat) it’s not enough to satisfy the hyped up fans hungrily awaiting its release.
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Edmonton Journal
feels like Rihanna at her most genuine.
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uinterview
fresh and new, avoiding the redundancy of already familiar hits.
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the Filtered Lens
“ANTI” struggles to find its own voice, although there’s no denying Rihanna can surprise.
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The Sky Box Suite
Rihanna has every been a part of thus far; at the same time, it seems like a pretty accurate reflection of her growth and development as an artist.
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HTF Magazine
Anti has done its job of putting Rihanna right back on the throne as one of the queens of pop music, where she will surely stay for years to come.
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the Trizzy Talk
The overall purpose of ANTI was to release an album that goes against what the people expects from her.
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Cabbage Corner
Though ANTI doesn't seem to gather its thoughts into one collective idea, it sure does have its strong points.
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SHOUT OUT
the album is literally on repeat for me. I never knew how good it was until you do that thing when you repeat a song over a few times and then you’re like actually this is good shit.
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Maise Wood
I urge you to listen to ANTI if you haven’t already, it might take you a few listens but it’ll be worth it once you get to know and love it!
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