Album DescriptionShe gained recognition following the release of her first two studio albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl like Me (2006), both of which were influenced by Caribbean music and peaked within the top ten of the US Billboard 200 chart. Loud shows Rihannas kinky side on songs like S&M and Skin. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. Songs like Complicated and Fading are about sad things in life but the happy sound make you believe youre listening to a love song. ℗ 2010 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brad Shea, Asst. The song was written by Darnell Dalton, Jamal Jones, Lamar Taylor, Quinton Amey and William Hodge, with production by Kuk Harrell, Willy Will, Veronika Bozeman and Jones under his production moniker Polow da Don. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff "Supa Jeff" Villanueva, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robert Campbell, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dane Liska, Asst. 'Fading' is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna from her fifth studio album, Loud (2010). Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Inaam Haq, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - The Runners, Producer - Jermaine Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Marcos Tovar, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ben O'Neil, Asst. Playback options Listening on Switch Spotify device. Makeba Riddick, Producer - Scott Spock, ComposerLyricist - Graham Edwards, ComposerLyricist - Lauren Christy, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Harr, ComposerLyricist - Laura Pergolizzi, ComposerLyricist - Stacy Barthe, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Robyn Fenty, ComposerLyricist - Rihanna, MainArtist - Corey Gibson, ComposerLyricist - LP, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Avril Lavigne, ComposerLyricist - Antonio Resendiz, Asst. Read about Fading by Rihanna and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. There’s just enough quality content to maintain her visibility. One song that sounds nothing like anything else in Rihanna’s past is “Skin,” a contender for anti-gravity slow jam of 2010 - a match for Trey Songz's “Red Lipstick” and Usher’s “Mars vs Venus.” The low points - the cluttered “Complicated,” the unfinished-sounding Nicki Minaj collaboration “Raining Men,” the overwrought rock weeper “California King Bed” - weigh the album down, making it resemble a fourth-quarter stopgap as Rihanna prepares her next truly eventful release. Though neither one can touch “Rude Boy,” they do efficiently balance Rihanna’s playful and sinister sides. The predatory StarGate/Sandy Vee-produced dance-pop (“S&M,” “Only Girl ”) is what works best here.
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It’s more an unfocused assortment of poor-to-solid songs than a unified set.
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Even without considering the weight of what it follows, there’s no getting past the notion that Loud is as uneven as Rihanna’s first two albums. This album, released less than a year after the latter, also has the misfortune of arriving with no fanfare a dramatic intro proclaiming “The wait is ova,” à la Rated R's opening track, would be silly. Loud would not sound quite so slapdash if it did not follow Good Girl Gone Bad, one of the best pop albums of its decade, and Rated R, one of the most fascinating pop albums of the same time frame.