Rihanna - Unapologetic
With the release of the Rihanna annual there's usually the enticing treat of a commanding lead single. Only Girl (in the World) came at the height of the Guetta synthfest; We Found Love came at the height of Calvin Harris' tolerability; Russian Roulette was a career-high cracker. This year, we were offered the Sia-penned 'Diamonds', a single so bewilderingly absent of hooks and with such a disillusioned vocal that we have to just take a second out of our day now and give Rihanna an intervention. It's not exactly a new complaint of mine that I could go a good while without Rihanna. Sure, there are about 10 great songs under her name scattered about here and there but there's a heaving pile of shit weighing them down. The whole Chris Brown debacle being treated as though anything other than a distasteful, appalling blow for domestic violence awareness and a shameful "this'll get them talking" business strategy just exhausts me, and I'm ti...