#rh5

Akko- It changes every single day. Akko is a trouble magnet.

Sucy- Every time Akko is in the room when she’s brewing volatile potions.

Lotte- The one incident when she got covered in algae.

Amanda- Before magic was restored, She flew too high and too far from the leyline in a race. She dropped like a stone and it was only Professor Nelson’s quick thinking that saved her.

Constanze- Workshop fire. Stanbot took care of it though.

Jasminka- Has fought a bear.

Hannah- Almost got mugged, nugget regretted it later after she broke his balls.

Barbara- She broke a nail, once.

ANTI BY RIHANNA

This album isn’t far of being on of the most iconic and greatest album of this decade, it has passion, emotion, a song for any emotion you are feeling. The wait was worth it, this album stands out the most from all 7 other albums, ‘Music of Sun’ is cute, ‘Girl Like Me’ is romantic, ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’ is mature, ‘Rated R’ is dark, ‘Loud’ is colourful, ‘Talk That Talk’ is lustful, ‘Unapologetic’ has a ‘don’t give a fuck’ feeling and ‘ANTI’ felt the most Rihanna, it felt like she has finally crafted a body of work that will be remember for years to come (along with GGGB). Rihanna has been in the music industry for almost two decade, she has millions of fans, a makeup company ‘Fenty Beauty’ and a long lasting career. Being commonly compared to other musical genius’s ‘Beyonce’ and ‘Nicki Minaj’, this is better then ‘Lemonade’ and ‘Pinkprint’ put together, and thats saying a lot since Lemonade changed music and was big movement, and The Pinkprint had ‘Only’, ‘Anaconda’, ‘Bed Of Lie’s ‘Win Again’ and the heart felt ‘Crying Game’, ‘Grand Piano’ and ‘All Things Go’. ANTI showed us that Rihanna isn’t just a collection of singles and hits, No--- she found pure artistry. She has gone through genres, RnB, Pop, Hip-Hop, Electronic, House, Alternative, EDM, Reggae, Dubstep, Dance, Soul and she has over 250 million records sold, Some of her songs rank in the world’s greatest best selling singles, including ‘Umbrella’ ‘We Found Love’ ‘Stay’ and ‘Work’ and being named in the Top 100 Artists this century. ANTI became her second BBH200 number 1 album and is one of the most dreamed albums on Spotify, with 2 BILLION streams. ANTI has collaborations of SZA (who made the AMAZING album ‘Ctrl’) and ‘Young Money Rapper’ Drake (co-signed with Rap MCs Nicki Minaj and Lil’ Wayne).

TRACK BY TRACK BREAKDOWN:

1. Consideration

the introduction to the album, featuring SZA (another fellow RnB artist) was well executed, the beat was well chosen, it had questionable lyrics like ‘Let me cover your shit in glitter, I can make it gold’ meaning she uses glitter, to make things look better then it actually is. Felt very long, had a VERY long outro. This song was written by SZA. 

2. James Joint

this song needed to be LONGER. Had calming vocals by Rihanna, the introduction was blunt (literally), meaning, In pop. songs, when it talks about something mature it does bluntly state what it’s talking about but you can interpret what the song is about, although in Hip-Hop they do it very bluntly. The song is about smoking weed, it’s stated in the song. 

3. Kiss It Better

this song had everything, emotion, you could hear all the emotion Rihanna was feeling when she sang this song. The music video, was questionable but felt artsy and original. 

4. Work

I always skip over this song, it is VERY annoying and didn’t deserve the success compared to other songs, Don’t get me wrong it’s a great song and when I listen to it I have fun, it’s honestly Drake that ruins it for me, and sometimes the repetitive of it. 

5. Desperado

OH DESPERADOOOO-- my favourite song from this album, I play this everyday because it’s PERFECT there is no room for improvement, there is no need. The beats and her high vocals make me bust a move everytime, Well done Robyn, I applaud you. 

6. Woo

is a pretty decent song, it helps me get hyped and feel confidence, its very LOUD (get the pun- no oh). I can’t think of anything bad about it right now while listening to it, so WELL DONE it’s a pass. 

7. Needed Me 

OHHHHH Needed Me is that SONG, It’s my SECOND favourite, close to beating Desperado simply because of it’s catchy beat I have been streaming this song since last year and I'm still not tired of it, it’s also the last single from ANTI, so Rihanna knew it was a banger. 

8. Yeah, I Said It

is sassy, bossy, very obnoxious and is great when you want to feel impowered, don’t break you back though it might get you TO HYPED. It could of been a bit longer, actually scratch that I NEED A RIHANNA ALBUM IN THIS GENRE, I DON’T EVEN KNOW GENRE IT IS BUT I NEED MOREEEE! 

9. Same Ol’ Mistakes

this seemed to be a fan favourite, but in my opinion it isn’t the BEST track in the world and the fans should give other songs more credit, Rihanna did co-write this song thoughhhhh. it felt very stretched out and could of been shorter. But the song sounded like it came from the heart. 

10. Never Ending 

the rest of the album from this point had more emotion then Fault in Out Stars (and thats alottttttttt of emotion) it even felt like it belonged to that film. This song makes me think, it makes me think about my life, why are we here? what’s the point of world? what would happen if I wasn’t here (oops, that went tooo dark). Anyway where was I? oh yeah- GREAT SONG!

11. Love on the brain

this song makes me feel a range of emotions from Don’t need you to Sadness, it is high on my favourites, it deserved a music video, grammy (scratch that actually, Grammys are a joke, many talented artist get snubbed every year, Lorde, Nicki Minaj,Bjork, Azealia Banks, Lana Del Rey, EVEN JOHN LENNON! the list goes on, and who do they nominate? CARDI B, sorry congrats to her but NO.) This song seems to be about love, simple as that, but the complex part is HOW DOES SHE HIT THOSE HIGH NOTES? is she a robot? probably.

12. Higher

my THIRD favourite, simply because of the high notes that gives me chills, it so high it’s ARIANA GRANDE AT HER BEST level singing. It’s short but simple. 

13. Close to you

is one of my favourites because of the rawness of it, the emotion is pouring out of her, it’s beautiful, a masterpiece, it’s so underrated and gets discredited by the fans. A perfect ending to the perfect album. 

SONG RANKING:

Desperado 10/10 Needed Me 10/10 Higher 9/10 Close To You 8/10 Kiss it Better 7/10 Yeah I Said It 7/10 Love on the Brain 6/10 Consideration 6/10 James Joint 6/10 Woo 5/10 Same Ol’ Mistakes 5/10 Never Ending 4/10 Work 2/10

OVERALL:

Overall, this album is a emotional rollercoaster but some of the song could of been longer, ‘James Joint’, ‘Yeah, I Said It’, but some song could of been shorter, ‘Consideration’, ‘Work’ (could of been shorter and cut Drake’s verse) ‘Same Ol’ Mistakes’.  But thinking back to what I just listened to, it is one of Rihanna greatest body of work  Sorry, why did I write that? RATED R is her best album, it is undefeated (it also says a big Fuck you to Chris Brown) it explains the experiences she went though, beautiful artistry. The album didn’t seem to pick up, it was amazing throughout the album excluding Work, something similar happened like this with ‘Broke With Expensive Taste’, so lesson here is don’t always experiment, some tracks will go wrong.