Disco de Rihanna: “Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded”

OK, the other two reviewers have a bone to pick with Amazon, Pepsi points and other things completely unrelated to Rihanna's music. If you like Rihanna, this is an excellent album. Not many to choose from yet, being a young artist. But, IMHO this is a better album than her first "Music of the Sun", which is not an insult of her debut either. I almost gave this 5 stars just to counter the crappy, unrealistic and unrelated reviews provided by the other two people here.... but I resisted. This really is a 4 star album, with solid music, vocals, and production. if you've heard of and like Rihanna, you'll like Good Girl Gone Bad.

The real fans purchase the albums in the first few weeks of their release & 6 months down the track the casual fans get expanded (better) editions. The record companies are trying to get money out of the fans twice for just a little bit of extra content. Every one feels sorry for the record companies with all this illegal downloading going on at the moment. Why should we feel sorry for them when they are ripping off the real fans. Someone mentioned that we should purchase the 3 extra tracks on mp3. RUBBISH. It would be only fair that these extra tracks should be available free for download even if it meant somehow proving that you purchased the inferior release. I'm sure 6 months down the track there will be an expanded version of Usher's new CD like there were for his last 2 CDs. Chris Brown, Fergie etc are all releasing expanded versions. It wouldn't bother me if the record companies released both an expanded & standard version at the same time, but they don't. Anyway this CD is really good. Love the Maroon 5 duet.

To the CD companies. A big fat GET STUFT!

After hearing the NON RAP version of "Umbrella", I was impressed so I dwelled into this artist. This album is nothing but sampling gone wrong. This entire collection is nothing but hip/hop fodder and isn't worthy of the chart success it's had. Shut up and drive, just shut up. The nasal vocals are enough to drive one mad.

Great songs, but I'm waiting for the release of the super-deluxe Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded Once Again, This Time For the Last Time, We Swear.

By now I hope everybody has figured out that re-releases usually don't benefit anyone except the greedy people at the record label headquarters. It gets them more money, and may even boost the album to the next RIAA certification. It also allows their artist to remain relevant for a little while longer, I guess. It's no secret. But still... couldn't Def Jam make it a little less obvious with this "Reloaded" edition of Rihanna's third album? The CD and DVD are housed in the same type of foldout digipak that the original came in and the artwork has been left virtually unchanged, which I think is extremely lazy. The album was already very good, and hands-down the best of Rihanna's career. The three new songs slapped on the end of the tracklist really don't add all that much. "Take A Bow" is just alright. It was mildly entertaining and catchy the first time I heard it, but by now it's overplayed--and I don't even listen to the radio much--and the Ne-Yo and Stargate collaborations are getting very tired and formulaic. "If I Never See Your Face Again" was originally just a Maroon 5 song, but apparently Rihanna was invited to join in for this "duet." Rihanna should not try to do rock. It just doesn't work, and her vocals and Adam's just do not go together. It's as simple as that. "Disturbia," which will be the set's seventh single, is by far the best. It follows the new trend of Euro-pop inspired tunes and it's pretty catchy and even a little bit creative. It's co-written by and features background vocals from her supposed boyfriend, Chris Brown. The DVD is lame, simply put, and its only purpose is to get us to buy the Good Girl Gone Bad Live DVD that's going to be coming out later this summer. It's nice to see what Rihanna is like as a person in the documentary bits, but the performances are extremely subpar and not very entertaining. In conclusion, this is weak, even for a re-release. Rather than releasing rip-off discs, Rihanna should just go back in the studio to record a whole new album of fresh material. Good Girl Gone Bad has has seven--yes, seven--singles and counting! Talk about overexposure. And the album has only gone platinum... inexcusable, even in today's harsh industry. Even though the album is great, it's time to put it to rest and move on to a new era. Do not buy this unless you are a die-hard fan or completist.