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Pop: Rihanna’s Not Great New Single Goes Straight to #1, Adele’s “Hello” Says Goodbye to Top 5

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It’s the changing of the guard on the iTunes pop chart, but it may not be such a good thing.

Rihanna has finally released a single from what is going to be her “Anti” album. The single, “Work,” featuring Drake, is Anti. It’s anti- good. Anti- melody. Anti-lyrics. It’s pro-gobbledygook. Is this what passes for a song?

I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m too old. Rihanna is a beautiful girl with a gorgeous voice. Can’t she have decent songs? Also, Drake proves in his guest appearance that the sample he took of Timmy Thomas’s 1973 “Why Can’t We Live Together” for “Hotline Bling” was the biggest part of that record.

Meantime, Adele’s “Hello” finally got pushed out of the top 5 after eight or nine weeks. What a run, though!

Rihanna’s album, by the way, may or may not be a Samsung special for their mobile devices, or a chart record. Def Jam Records may feel that Adele is vulnerable to a take down now. If so, “Anti” had better have some actual songs.

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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