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Producer Christopher "Tricky" Stewart co-wrote and co-produced the lead single from the album, " Umbrella". The album is very edgy." Recording and production
I felt when I cut my hair, it shows people I'm not trying to look or be anybody else.
In May 2007, Rihanna revealed that she called the album Good Girl Gone Bad because it represents her bolder and more independent image: "I'm not the innocent Rihanna anymore. She cited Afrodisiac (2004), the fourth studio album by American singer Brandy Norwood, as her main inspiration for the album.
She sought to make an album that people would listen to without skipping tracks. Rihanna explained that she wanted to keep the audience dancing and be soulful at the same time. " The same year, Rihanna dismissed her innocent image for an edgier look with a new hairstyle, which was inspired by actress Charlize Theron's bob cut in the 2005 science fiction thriller Æon Flux. You feel different every album, and this stage I feel like I want to do a lot of uptempo. I think that's where I want to go on this one. Not on purpose, but I just want to hear something fresh and mostly uptempo. In an interview with MTV News, she announced that "the new music is going in a different direction. In early 2007, Rihanna began work on her third studio album. The album sold over 587,308 copies in the United Kingdom and more than 1,330,000 copies in the United States. Around its time of release, many critics felt that Rihanna's style, sound, and musical material were too similar to those of American singer Beyoncé. It had a mixed critical reception: some critics praised Rihanna's new musical direction, while others criticized some of the album's songs. It is a pop-oriented record with dancehall and R&B influences. Rihanna's second studio album, A Girl like Me, was released in April 2006. Rihanna talking to The StarPhoenix about the style she took for the album I just want to have a little more fun with my music and be a little more experimental in terms of my image and my sound. I basically took the attitude of the bad girl and I really got rebellious and just did everything the way I wanted to do it-I didn't want to listen to anybody. It was followed by Rihanna's first remix album, Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes, in January 2009, which featured remixes from Moto Blanco, Tony Moran, the Soul Seekerz and the Wideboys. The album was reissued as Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded in June 2008 with three new songs, including the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits " Take a Bow" and " Disturbia". To promote the album, Rihanna embarked on her first worldwide concert tour and third overall, the Good Girl Gone Bad Tour. Good Girl Gone Bad spawned five singles, including the international hits "Umbrella" and " Don't Stop the Music" Rolling Stone placed the former at number 412 on the magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. As of 2017, the album had sold over 9 million copies worldwide. The album reached number one in Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it sold more than 2.8 million copies in the United States. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold 162,000 copies in its first week. The album received seven Grammy Award nominations and one win in the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category for " Umbrella" at the 2008 ceremony. Apart from the sound, she also endorsed a new image for the release going from an innocent young woman to an edgier, more mature look.Ĭritics gave generally positive reviews of the album, praising its composition and Rihanna's new musical direction, though some criticized the album's lyrics and inconsistency. Described as a turning point in Rihanna's career, it represents a departure from the Caribbean sound of her previous releases, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl like Me (2006). Inspired by Brandy Norwood's fourth studio album Afrodisiac (2004), Good Girl Gone Bad is a pop, dance-pop and R&B record with 1980s music influences. Rihanna worked with various producers on the album, including Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Terius "The-Dream" Nash, Neo da Matrix, Timbaland, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers and Stargate. It was released on May 31, 2007, by Def Jam Recordings and SRP Records. Good Girl Gone Bad is the third studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna.