First she released Work, the Drake-featuring first single from her long awaited eighth album ANTI, and then TIDAL went ahead and accidentally leaked the album.
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AND she’s giving it away for free!!!
And despite Tidal’s dismal reputation amgonst the streaming platform population, it seems as though Rihanna‘s sudden reappearance with “Anti” is enough to garner users to tune back in.
Rihanna’s eight studio album Anti has officially been released on Tidal.
This is RiRi’s first album since releasing Unapologetic in 2012. The album is exclusively available on Tidal (yes, people are still trying to make Tidal happen) for the next week. She’ll also be releasing a 16-track deluxe edition on Friday, the day Anti was meant to drop. Neither track is included on the new album. The move comes mere hours after pirates uploaded the album to streaming sites after the original, inadvertent, upload.
While every track on Anti shows off Rihanna’s vocal abilities in different ways, the popular singer has also focused on Artwork in her latest album to explore different capabilities.
The Telegraph described the album as “Rihanna without hits”, adding, “This, for better or worse, is clearly the music Rihanna likes: leftfield, stoned and unusual”.
Anti does not include FourFiveSeconds, a song that Rihanna released a year ago in a collaboration with Paul McCartney and Kanye West. Work (feat. Drake) 5.
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Rihanna has already announced a world tour to promote Anti, which will begin on February 26 in San Diego. While “Work” may not reinvent any wheels or mark new pop territory, it’s nice to hear two of pop’s biggest names sound so confident in their respective lanes.
