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Rihanna’s Love Is Your Love

Here are three things we’ve learned this week about Rihanna’s Talk That Talk, to be released on November 21: It has a track list; Jay-Z and the xx will both be featured; and it is, to quote one listening session report, “the dirtiest pop record we have ever heard.†Some sample lyrics, to give you an idea: “You’re taking too long to get my head on the ground / And my feet in the clouds†and the slightly more direct “I wanna fuck you right now.†There’s also a song titled “Cockinessâ€Â â€” you can imagine where that goes. (It goes to sexytime.) In this context, “You Da One,†the second single off Talk That Talk, is relatively (disappointingly?) tame; there’s one reference to “hard loving,†something about how the dude had her “yelling,†and then a line about “coming alive†that definitely means what you think it means. But those PG (for Rihanna) lyrics are folded into an otherwise sunny mid-tempo number about how awesome it is to be in love, and you forget about the banging when the “day-ay-ay†chorus comes in. “You Da One†is the low-key, island-y equivalent of “We Found Love,†essentially, plus the requisite dubstep breakdown, and it’s very pleasant. But where are the clever sex puns? We were promised sex puns.

Rihanna’s Love Is Your Love