Rihanna: A Girl Like Me
CML call number: CD/REGGAE/Rihanna
Contents: SOS, Kisses Don't Lie, Unfaithful, We Ride, Dem Haters, Final Goodbye, Break It Off, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Selfish Girl, P.S. (I'm Still Not Over You), A Girl Like Me, A Million Miles Away; bonus track: If It's Lovin' That You Want -- Part 2.
Kelefa Sanneh wrote in the New York Times: "Last year this Barbados-born singer scored a smash with the lithe pop-dancehall track 'Pon de Replay.' Then came the first single from this album, 'SOS,' which brazenly -- and astutely -- recycled the beat from Soft Cell's version of 'Tainted Love.' The follow-up is 'Unfaithful,' a profoundly ludicrous -- but not disagreeable -- pop lament: 'I don't wanna hurt him any more/ I don't wanna take away his life/ I don't wanna be a murderer.' (If there's a singer who could make these lines sound sinister or desolate, it sure isn't this one.) [The album also includes] a triumphant return to her old formula: a pop-dancehall song called 'Break It Off,' where she shares the microphone with Sean Paul atop an electro-reggae beat" ("Critic's Choice: New CD's," 4/24/06).
Contents: SOS, Kisses Don't Lie, Unfaithful, We Ride, Dem Haters, Final Goodbye, Break It Off, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Selfish Girl, P.S. (I'm Still Not Over You), A Girl Like Me, A Million Miles Away; bonus track: If It's Lovin' That You Want -- Part 2.
Kelefa Sanneh wrote in the New York Times: "Last year this Barbados-born singer scored a smash with the lithe pop-dancehall track 'Pon de Replay.' Then came the first single from this album, 'SOS,' which brazenly -- and astutely -- recycled the beat from Soft Cell's version of 'Tainted Love.' The follow-up is 'Unfaithful,' a profoundly ludicrous -- but not disagreeable -- pop lament: 'I don't wanna hurt him any more/ I don't wanna take away his life/ I don't wanna be a murderer.' (If there's a singer who could make these lines sound sinister or desolate, it sure isn't this one.) [The album also includes] a triumphant return to her old formula: a pop-dancehall song called 'Break It Off,' where she shares the microphone with Sean Paul atop an electro-reggae beat" ("Critic's Choice: New CD's," 4/24/06).
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