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Asylum seekers...
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Doctor Who picture resource
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Explore the Doctor Who classic series website
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Infiltrate The Hub of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood
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Investigate The Sarah Jane Adventures
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Call on Dani’s House
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Intercept the UFO fabsite
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Uncover the secrets of the Dollhouse
Programmable agent Echo exposed!

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Hell’s belles
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Love Exposure
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Primeval portal
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Charmed, to be sure!
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Take on t.A.T.u.
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Proceed to the Luther website

Proceed to the Luther website
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DCI Banks is on the case
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On The Grid with Spooks
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Bridge to Hustle
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Life on Ashes To Ashes
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Claire’s no Exile

Claire’s no Exile
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Vexed is back on the beat!

Vexed is back on the beat!
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Medium, both super and natural

Medium, both super and natural
Open the door to your dreams

Who’s that girl? (350-picture Slideshow)

Saturday 13 October 2007

Good Girl Goes Gold!


Rihanna’s rise to the top of the popular music industry has been rapid, to say the least. She’s been in the public eye for roughly the same amount of time as “Doctor Who” has been back on air in the UK. She’s been very productive, too, for a pop artist, producing an album a year over the last three years. In 2005, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, to give her her full name, released her debut CD, “Music of the Sun”, the songs on which reflect her native Barbados. This record spawned the first two of - currently - a total of ten singles, “Pon de Replay” and “If it’s Lovin’ that You Want”. These two tracks would reappear, in new versions, on the end of her second album, “A Girl Like Me” (2006), presumably to help sales! A further four singles were lifted from this release; “SOS”, which samples Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love”; the beautifully-understated “Unfaithful”, written by R‘n’B singer Ne-Yo and with whom she would later collaborate on her third full-length release; the less successful “We Ride”; and “Break it Off”, featuring Sean Paul, meaning this disc actually contains a total of six singles and thus borders, already at such an early stage in her career, on a greatest hits package!!


One year later and Rihanna’s ascension is complete! I would go so far as to say Miss Fenty is now bigger than either Britney or Kylie. They’ll be battling it out next month for chart domination but I can’t see either beating the phenomenal success of Rihanna’s lead single, “Umbrella”, from her third album “Good Girl Gone Bad” (2007). Again, this release contains four singles. They are the aforementioned ultra-successful “Umbrella” featuring Jay-Z, which opens the album; “Shut Up and Drive”, the fifth track on the CD; the funkier “Don’t Stop the Music”, which is the disc’s third song; and, finally, sixth track “Hate That I Love You”, a duet with Ne-Yo, is a ballad accompanied by a clever little video with a twist in its tale. This type of R‘n’B isn’t usually my thing but, on this occasion, Rihanna’s third album seems to be infused with a rock sensibility which makes it more agreeable to my ear! I’ve posted the promos that accompany these four tracks in a “Rihanna Special” on my Jukebox, currently at the bottom of the front page, together with a slightly distorted performance of second single “Shut Up and Drive”, from the “Late Show with David Letterman”, directly above it. Hope you enjoy listening to some of the songs from what will probably end up being voted album of the year!!

8 comments:

Steve said...

I haven't heard any of her stuff (as far as I know) but those pics have certainly piqued (peaked?) my interest!

Old Cheeser said...

Something tells me you like Rhianna....

How about her replacing Ms C Tate as the new companion? She could straddle the TARDIS console...

Okay time to stop!

TimeWarden said...

It's always tricky deciding which pictures to use, Steve!

I didn't like Rihanna to begin with, Simon, as I'm always suspicious of something overly popular but she must be doing something right considering the enormous success of "Umbrella".

Steve said...

Ah ok - penny dropped. I've definitely heard Umbrella! OC, I think we should get a petition to RTD immediately!

Old Cheeser said...

Yes, I can sense "Dr Who: The Musical" coming on!

Well, Rose Tyler was an ex popstress, wasn't she? And she acquitted herself pretty well...

TimeWarden said...

I get the distinctly nauseating feeling that RTD would love to have Miss Britney Spears aboard the TARDIS!

Steve said...

For some bizarre reason, my imagination is running to Cher becoming the new DW companion. That would be hilarious. God knows what she'd do with his sonic screwdriver...

TimeWarden said...

Considering what the Doctor has been through emotionally, losing Rose, Cher could ask the Time Lord if he believes in love, after all?!!