
No need to hit the skip button on this album as Rihanna shows her sultry side on “Kiss It Better,” her twerk side on “Work” and her vocal chops on “Love on the Brain.” Her hard work, work, work, work, work, work has truly paid off.ģ. But she took four years to create “Anti,” and the time was used wisely.
HAIM DAYS ARE GONE ITUNES PLUS HOW TO
She also put out albums in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 20 - showing that she was a singer who knew how to pick a hit, record it and make it sound better than any other artist could. Rihanna, “Anti”: Something was in the water in 2016: Beyoncé delivered “Lemonade” and Rihanna gave us the best album of her career with “Anti.” Rihanna had been moving like the Energizer Bunny since releasing her first album in 2005. “Who the (expletive) do you think I am,” she brashly asks on “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” which co-stars Jack White. Lyrically, she’s on point and honest over beats and sounds that range from rap to rock to country and pop. The usually private Beyoncé bares her soul on the album, singing about a troubled relationship, black pride and motherhood in a brave way. Somehow, she topped herself again with “Lemonade,” which still tastes as good as it did when it was released in 2016. In 2011, she released the R&B adventure “4,” featuring classics like “Countdown,” “Love on Top,” “Party,” “End of Time,” “I Care” and “I Miss You.” Three years later - in surprise form - came “Beyoncé,” her bold, audacious and daring album that showcased a new side of Beyoncé: Goodbye was the girl who cared about topping the charts, and born was an artist, a true storyteller, a grown woman. But somehow Superwoman - shoot, she’s Superman, too! - found a way to do more: Like a boss she launched her own company, Parkwood Entertainment, and really took the bull by the horns of her career. She won a record six Grammys in a single night, had women AND MEN “oh-oh-oh’ing” to the fun sound of “Single Ladies” and continued to be a beast of a performer. Beyoncé, “Lemonade”: At the beginning of this decade, Beyoncé was already the greatest singer of her generation. Change your clocks accordingly, everyone, because it’s Haim time.NEW YORK, NY – The top 15 albums of the decade by Associated Press Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu:ġ. Off the back of this debut album, all this is only the beginning. Este’s bass-face is already a staple of popular culture, and their frantic live sets are already the hot ticket. ‘Days Are Gone’ confirms what everybody already knew in fabulous style that Haim are the band to shout about. And don’t dare consign them to the territory of ‘girl band’, either. They do a lot of other things too, but in truth, the Haim sisters resist any attempts to be neatly folded up and placed in boxes. Haim meld a sassy, glossy R&B sheen with powerhouse folk melody on ‘Go Slow’, and they conjure glimmering pop foundations on ‘Forever’ that spiral upwards in strange geometric structures, built upon gasping, fragmented delivery and plunking bass. Equally, though, ‘Days Are Gone’ is the kind of album that could be piped unannounced at the nearest branch of Lakeland, and customers would still be dancing round the aisles waving non-stick silicone cupcake trays and going wild. It’s the kind of music that prompts frenzied queuing round the block, and handmade gifts hurled onto stages. Haim are the sort of band that kids looking for rock idols wielding guitars and droves of attitude want to paste amongst tattered posters on bedroom walls.

Why, exactly? Because Haim look, feel, and sound like a proper band - with an inimitable, unmistakable something energising everything they touch. Haim have always generated a giddy excitement, and amid a landscape that so frequently complains of repetition, derivation and even boredom, here is a band worth undivided attention and boundless hysteria. All this doesn’t really come as a surprise. ‘Better Off’ can be heard playing everywhere from Radio 1 to the local shops. Danielle, Este and Alana Haim spent the summer performing headline-worthy sets, the pinnacle being their over-brimming tent at Reading Festival. Indeed, just one year later, Haim are occupying double-page review spreads, and hanging out with Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne and urm, Philip Green during London Fashion Week. Even when their ‘Forever’ EP was a wee glint flickering and barely registering on transatlantic radars, it wasn’t mere speculation to picture big things.
