“After responding to staggering emotional and physical trauma with the melodramatic Rated R, Rihanna returns to making effervescent pop.”
“Call it How Rihanna Got Her Groove Back: Clearly over her abusive ex, she leaves behind the tortured mood of 2009’s Rated R in order to pound Jameson shots and table-dance at Coyote Ugly. "Life’s too short to be sittin’ round miserable," she sings on "Cheers (Drink to That)," and with these digital-pop party tracks, […]”
