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Barbados-born seventeen-year-old Rihanna moved to America only two years ago, but she's already scored one of the biggest hits of the summer, "Pon De Replay," a poppy piece of dancehall reggae with slapping, syncopated beats recalling big-band jazz. Produced mostly by Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers, the songwriting-production duo behind the worst boy-band hit of all time, 'NSync's "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You," the rest of Music of the Sun lacks the single's immediacy and rhythmic ingenuity. Photogenic Rihanna suggests a young Mariah Carey minus the birdcalls, and the generic vocal hiccups and frills clearly learned from American R&B often overwhelm her Caribbean charm. At fifty-two minutes, Rihanna's debut overstays its welcome, but the single justifies plenty of replays.
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Track List
- Pon de Replay
- Here I Go Again
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If It's Lovin' That You Want (track not available in Rhapsody)
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You Don't Love Me (No,No,No) (track not available in Rhapsody)
- That La, La, La
- The Last Time
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Willing To Wait (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Music Of The Sun (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Let Me
- Rush
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There's A Thug In My Life (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Now I Know
- Pon de Replay (Remix Clean)
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