Talk:Rated R (Rihanna album)/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Prism (talk · contribs) 14:07, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I'll be conducting the review for Rated R in the meantime. Prism  △  14:07, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Step 1: General overview

 * Disambiguation links : Not present.
 * External links : You have some links to correct...
 * Article structure : Most articles have the Critical reception section before Commercial peformance. I'd suggest you to rearrange them.
 * Original research Not present.

Lead section

 * "Rihanna together with Antonio "L.A." Reid and The Carter Administration was [...]" → "Rihanna, together with Antonio "L.A." Reid and The Carter Administration, was [...]"
 * "and Slash who played the guitars in 'Rockstar 101'." → "and Slash, who played [...]"
 * "Musically, the album represents a departure from her 2007 effort Good Girl Gone Bad, [...]" → "Musically, the album represents a departure from her previous effort Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
 * "[...] Rated R features a foreboding and atmospheric tone in terms of musical and lyrical direction. It incorporated elements of hip hop, rock, and dubstep." → the change of tense doesn't make much sense in this case. Change "incorporate" to "incorporates".
 * Although it classifies the album's tone as "foreboding and atmospheric", I don't see much talking about the lyrics' themes. Maybe put something in the sentence "It incorporates elements of hip hop, rock and dubstep" that alludes to the lyrical interpretation.
 * "topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks" → "topped the US Billboard Hot 100, for five consecutive weeks".

Background and development

 * "Rihanna's previous album Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) was a commercial success and received generally positive reviews from most music critics." → Add a reference to prove it was a commercial success, since Metacritic doesn't really prove it.
 * "Ne-Yo stated that listeners should expect an edgier and angrier Rihanna" → "edgier" and "angrier" are copied directly from E! Online. Replace them with synonyms or add quotation marks.
 * "whole new sound and that the new songs are not just a rehash of what fans heard on her last album" → Again, "whole new sound" and "rehash of what fans heard on" are copied from the source (MTV). Either add close paraphrasing or quotation marks. The image also repeats this (unnecessarily): in its caption, add "[...] stated that the sound of Rated R differs from Good Girl Gone Bad" or something similar.
 * If there's something I would add to the section, is a reason that justifies the album title (I know it is kind of obvious for a Rihanna fan like you [and me, too] but other people may be curious about that). If you do not add that though, I won't hold it against the outcome of this GAN.

Recording

 * "lighthearted commercial pop" → Needs to be in quotation marks.
 * "It was later revealed that StarGate originally produced a collaboration between Rihanna and Canadian rapper Drake. However, the song did not make the final cut for the album." → "It was later revealed that StarGate originally produced a collaboration between Rihanna and Canadian rapper Drake, however, it did not make the final cut for the album".
 * "'Hard'" stood out from all the songs because she felt that it had such an arrogance in it." → "She felt that 'Hard' stood out from all the songs, due to its arrogance."

Music and lyrics

 * No obvious problems detected.

Release and promotion

 * I don't know if you can find anything that proves it, maybe a link from Nokia Store, but the album never got exclusive artwork with that release.

Singles

 * Russian Roulette
 * There's a post in MTV News that talks about the fans' polarised response to the song. Maybe include it somewhere next to the critical response.


 * Wait Your Turn
 * "Reception of "Rude Boy" was mixed to positive; some reviewers criticised the masculine demeanor of the song Rihanna's "icy" vocals " → this doesn't make much sense?


 * Rockstar 101
 * [...], and labelled it an "afterthought". → [...], labelling it an "afterthought".
 * "An accompanying music video was shot in April 2010 and was directed by Melina Matsoukas," → "An accompanying music video was shot in April 2010, directed by Melina Matsoukas"
 * "The Latin American music song garnered positive reviews from critics." → "A Latin American music-oriented song, it garnered positive reviews from critics."
 * "Rihanna has performed the song live on the ninth season of American Idol on April 7, 2010, and was joined on stage by Portuguese guitarist and singer-songwriter Nuno Bettencourt" → Missing final dot.

Commercial performance

 * I don't see why talking about the commercial performance of Rated R: Remixed is necessary here. Maybe just move that information to Release and promotion, since the Billboard 200 position and total sales are addressed in that section.

Release history

 * Some of the references provided do not prove that the album was released as a compact disc. This occurs in countries with iTunes Store references. Provide an additional Amazon reference and either keep or remove the iTunes Store reference.

Step 3: References

 * References linking to MTV → publisher parameter (if you used the cite web template in all of them) need to have MTV [News, if that's the case]. Viacom Media Networks.
 * References linking to iTunes Store → iTunes Store cannot appear italicised, so insert both iTunes Store and Apple Inc into the 'publisher' parameter.

Step 4: Final comments and status

 * As I said previously, this looks like a good article and is almost near GA-status. For now, I'll place the review on hold for one or two weeks, just tell me if you need more (or less). Prism   △  17:48, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Failed per nominator request. prism   △  18:40, 13 January 2014 (UTC)