“Anti“Album hottest thus far in 2016

Rihanna’s 8th studio album “ANTI” was released this past weekend, January 28, free for Tidal members on January 29, for ITunes, and other online music stores, paid purchases only. The highly anticipated album is the follow up to the singer’s 2012 album “Unapologetic”, and is already being called one of the best albums of 2016. “ANTI”, also known as “#R8”, is also the first album released through label Roc Nation, instead of her longtime label Def Jam. In 2015 the singer released a few singles to keep us settled, but now she lets us have everything we asked for and more with her signature edgy songs and provocative attitude. Rihanna describes the meaning of the album as a person. Israeli artist Roy Nachum, designed the album art. It features an image of Rihanna as a child overlaid with a poem written in braille. The poem was written by Chloe Mitchell and is titled “If They Let Us”. She says it is a person that is opposed to a particular policy, activity, or idea, where she is that person. Ri-Ri feels as if her album cover has changed the history of album art. She continues explaining by saying that she will continue to follow her own instincts, and try to maintain creating the work that strives to make an impact by doing the very antithesis of what the public expects. Our favorite Bad Gal offers the #R8 in two versions, regular, and deluxe. The regular version has 13 songs and the deluxe has 16, and though many artists weren’t used in the creation the album, there are a few that stand out. “Work” featuring rapper Drake was released a day before the official release of the album and along with a lot of album anticipation, the song also brought a lot of controversy. The history between two date back to about 5 or 6 years ago. Rihanna featured on Drake’s album “Take Care” in 2012, at the time they were said to be dating. A few months after the end of their relationship she began dating her previous ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2013. Since the end of their two-part relationship, Rihanna has yet to collaborate with either artist yet. Of course the media persist that Drake and Rihanna are now trying to rekindle any old flames that they might have had but where does that leave rapper Travis Scott. The two have had a number of speculations of them dating in the previous year, not to mention Scott accompanying her on the world tour of her newly released album this year. It has even been said that the magazine cover for I-D Magazine in February of last year was a rendition of Travis Scott, and his rather dark, gothic style. Whoever she finds fit to call a mate, does not take away from anything this album offers. The songs on the album are a great example of taking time to produce music that people will like for a lifetime. If you are unable to purchase it on any of the online music stores, it will be available in stores for a physical copy Friday February 5