Rihanna Unapologetic [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) 8/31/2018 CHECK YOUR HEAD practically defined

CHECK YOUR HEAD practically defined the summer of 1992 for those who were wary of the mainstreaming of rap and somewhat bored by the insurgency of grunge

" and tunes like the jangling

Strangers Are Strange

while keyboardist Rick Wright seemed to be completely out of the picture

When the tempo slows down and the arrangements are stripped to an acoustic guitar

Rihanna Unapologetic [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) 8/31/2018 CHECK YOUR HEAD practically definedIn 2012, right on schedule, Rihanna delivered her fourth annual November album. The singer took a different route with the lead single. She didn't go with a dramatic ballad like "Russian Roulette" or a big dance number like "Only Girl (In the World)" and "We Found Love." Instead, the nod went to a midtempo pop ballad, "Diamonds" as in "We're like diamonds in the sky" (rather than stars in a mine), a simple and effective, light in meaning yet massive