It is a pop-oriented record with dancehall and R&B influences. Rihanna's second studio album, A Girl like Me, was released in April 2006. Rihanna talking to The StarPhoenix about the style she took for the album I just want to have a little more fun with my music and be a little more experimental in terms of my image and my sound.

I basically took the attitude of the bad girl and I really got rebellious and just did everything the way I wanted to do it-I didn't want to listen to anybody. It was followed by Rihanna's first remix album, Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes, in January 2009, which featured remixes from Moto Blanco, Tony Moran, the Soul Seekerz and the Wideboys. The album was reissued as Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded in June 2008 with three new songs, including the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits ' Take a Bow' and ' Disturbia'. To promote the album, Rihanna embarked on her first worldwide concert tour and third overall, the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour. Good Girl Gone Bad spawned five singles, including the international hits 'Umbrella' and ' Don't Stop the Music' Rolling Stone placed the former at number 412 on the magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. As of 2017, the album had sold over 9 million copies worldwide. The album reached number one in Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it sold more than 2.8 million copies in the United States. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold 162,000 copies in its first week. The album received seven Grammy Award nominations and one win in the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category for ' Umbrella' at the 2008 ceremony. Apart from the sound, she also endorsed a new image for the release going from an innocent young woman to an edgier, more mature look.Ĭritics gave generally positive reviews of the album, praising its composition and Rihanna's new musical direction, though some criticized the album's lyrics and inconsistency. Described as a turning point in Rihanna's career, it represents a departure from the Caribbean sound of her previous releases, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl like Me (2006).

Inspired by Brandy Norwood's fourth studio album Afrodisiac (2004), Good Girl Gone Bad is a pop, dance-pop and R&B record with 1980s music influences. Rihanna worked with various producers on the album, including Christopher 'Tricky' Stewart, Terius 'The-Dream' Nash, Neo da Matrix, Timbaland, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers and Stargate. It was released on May 31, 2007, by Def Jam Recordings and SRP Records. Good Girl Gone Bad is the third studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna.

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