译RC评Rihanna 职业生涯所有录音室专辑（2005-2016）
翻译：Nomanlandever
原文链接：http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=rihanna
专辑综评
Music of the Sun [Def Jam, 2005] 💣
A Girl Like Me [Def Jam, 2006] 💣
Good Girl Gone Bad [Def Jam, 2007] ✂️
Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded [Def Jam, 2008] ✂️
Rated R [Def Jam, 2009] **
Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) [Def Jam, 2011] A-
Unapologetic [Def Jam, 2012] ***
Anti (Deluxe Edition) [Westbury Road/Roc Nation, 2016] A
Music of the Sun [Def Jam, 2005] （《太阳之歌》） 💣
（评分：炸弹，无评语）
A Girl Like Me [Def Jam, 2006] （《娜妹天下》）💣
（评分：炸弹，无评语）
Good Girl Gone Bad [Def Jam, 2007]（《娜妹好坏 》）
"Umbrella" ✂️
（评分：剪刀，专辑中值得关注的歌曲："Umbrella" ）
Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded [Def Jam, 2008]（《娜妹好坏 》( 超级好样版 )）"Disturbia" ✂️
（评分：剪刀，专辑中值得关注的歌曲："Disturbia" ）
Rated R [Def Jam, 2009]（《限制级》）
Concocting a persona of interest out of one dynamite musical trick and a bad patch I wouldn't wish on Lindsay Lohan ("Hard," "Rude Boy"). **
仅凭一张狂甩花招的王炸专辑和Lindsay Lohan似凄惨的低谷期便打造出一个鲜活人设。**
推荐曲："Hard," "Rude Boy"
没评《LOUD》（《娜喊》）
Talk That Talk (Deluxe Edition) [Def Jam, 2011]（《娜样说》豪华版）
Musically, this is pop without shame--her hookiest and most dance-targeted album, decorated with a thoughtful assortment of suitably titillating blats, noodles, dubs, groans, hiccups, boom-booms, cut-ups, speed-ups, xx samples, and spoken-word bits. Lyrically, it celebrates the relationship of sex to love rather than pain, dipping predictably on the heart songs and theme statements that slow down the second half, especially on the standard edition. Associating carnality with love as I do, I prefer it to her earlier albums because I find its many porny moments titillating. Sure Beyoncé is sexier in principle--I like smart girls, not bad girls, especially bad girls with a thing for worse men. But I believe in taking my titillation wherever it raises its spongy head. A-
音乐上，这是一张毫无羞耻的流行专辑——她最抓耳hook且最主打舞曲的专辑，深思熟虑的序曲排列中镶嵌着恰到好处的连绵挑逗，面条、配乐、呻吟、打嗝、狂热、片段、加速、xx采样和说话片段。歌词上，它颂扬灵肉相融的爱情，而不是疼痛，不出所料，专辑第二章节流露真情的歌曲和概念歌曲减缓了专辑的节奏，标准版专辑尤其如此。我把肉欲和爱情视作不可分割的整体，比起她的早期专辑，我更喜欢这张，因为我发现它的许多porn时刻都很撩人。当然原则上Beyoncé更性感。我喜欢聪明的女孩，而不是坏女孩，尤其讨厌坏男女在一起。但我相信只要它抬起海绵状的头，我就能获得快感。
Unapologetic [Def Jam, 2012]（《道歉太难》）
So much more provocative as an android than as a human being ("Phresh Out the Runway," "Diamonds," "Numb") ***
机器人比人类尖锐火辣得多***
推荐曲："Phresh Out the Runway," "Diamonds," "Numb"
Anti (Deluxe Edition) [Westbury Road/Roc Nation, 2016]（《反了》）
The reason I like this record beginning to end has zip to do with whether it documents her sexual mood swings more proudly or soulfully. The presentational Rihanna is so unlike anyone I know that she can say anything she wants about her musical punany as long as she leaves Chris Brown out of it--with this artist, sex is figurative, symbolic, the mark of a pleasure taker turned pleasure provider. So Anti is her best album for a reason so simple it's tautological--despite its supposed rejection of track-and-hook mechanics, it features catchier songs. True, the main time they really make me go woo is when she breaks into gibberish at the end of "Work." But then some German hands her "Love on the Brain," the best new doowop song in decades, which segues perfectly to a power entreaty avec drunk violins, after which the album proper goes out on a piano-enhanced coda that adds a nice sweetness. Only instead of savoring this narrative arc, why don't you just proceed to the three bonus tracks, which top an M.I.A. move with none other than "Sex With Me"? A
我从头到尾地爱这张专辑，原因与它是否记录了她的“Sex”情绪波动无关，无论是更高调或是更深情的。视觉女星Rihanna与我认识的任何人都不同，在抛开Chris Brown后，她能在音乐双关语中讲述任何她想表达的事物——在这位艺术家眼中，“Sex”是具体的、象征性的，是享受者变为供给者的标志。所以《Anti》是她最好的专辑，原因很简单，专辑主题高度统一——尽管被认为拒绝了传统Hook热单制作模式，却做出更多更抓耳的歌曲。最让我出乎意料的便是“Work”末尾处突如其来的胡言乱语；之后由德国人打造的“Love on the Brain”是几十年来最好的doowop新歌，在强势的恳求和醉醺的小提琴声中完美拉开歌曲序幕。之后，专辑适得其所地在加强的钢琴声中走向末尾章节，增添了绝妙的馥郁气息。不过，与其细品该叙事情节，为何不直接切入三首加曲呢？三首歌中只有“Sex With Me”比得上M.I.A.的作品。A
（注：doowop：经常由4~5人组成重唱小组，由一人担任领唱，其他人以密集和声作伴唱）
