Rated R - Rihanna | Turns 15

[naval23]

Imagine releasing this dark era sandwiched between your 2 smash eras "Good Girl Gone Bad" and "Loud" at the age of 21

 

The album received widespread critical acclaim with a 75 on Metacritic (for 2000s standards when the bar was high, it probably would get at least 85+ today)

 

 

 

It peaked at #4 on Billboard 200 and was the 21st biggest album of 2010 in the USA and 13th biggest of Europe, going multiplatinum in the US and UK.

 

Rated R is deemed a pivotal record in Rihanna's career as it was released nine months after the domestic violence case with Brown. In 2019, ten years after the album release, Chuck Arnold of Billboard described the record as a "coming-of-age manifesto" and also Rihanna's version of Jackson's Control (1986).

 

Rated R is "her declaration of independence from Brown and her taking charge of a narrative that had turned her into a victim." Similarly, Blavity's Jordan Simon compared it to Jackson's The Velvet Rope, and described it as "a dark portrait of a Black woman's journey to self-healing

 

 

 

 

[RihannaLoverrr]

My favourite album

 

The one that made me a stan. 

 

Such an incredible album, its insane to think she was only 21 when this came out. Underrated as an era too, music was great, visuals were great, I loved the performances, she served looks... it blessed me with the AOL sessions. Ugh what a time

[sk8erfan]

That's the one!!!

[CristianGarcia]

16 minutes ago, RihannaLoverrr said:

The one that made me a stan. 

Same. This is when I realized she was an ARTIST 

[SimSim]

Tbh it seems like it's been way more than just 15 yrs.

 

Miss Fenty we miss you.

[rhaenyra]

Rude Boy still slaps to this day

Hard and Fire Bomb are still in rotation every few months

&& Te Amo was too underrated 

 

A solid 8.5/10 album from Rih

[Vixen Eyes]

Her BEST album. 

[Bussea]

COM HE RUDE BOI BOI BOI CAN U GET IT UP

 

[rebeltwat]

Her "flop era" but so much fun to experience as a kid. I was obsessed with Hard, Wait Your Turn and Te Amo

[UnusualBoy]

And it remains as her best alberm, she did that