Talk:Rated R (Rihanna album)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Prism (talk · contribs) 14:07, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

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.

Step 2: In depth

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)[reply]

Failed per nominator request. prism △ 18:40, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]