@Emily Weber

Indie rock with a socially conscious storyteller’s voice.

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Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

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Not only has Rihanna made some of the best party tracks in recent memory, she’s arguably the biggest global pop star to really tap into the sound and feel of modern Caribbean music—a trend that has changed the course of pop as we know it. This playlist focuses on her fun side—songs that capture the joy and carefree sensuality that make her music a fixture at parties, from crowded kitchens to big, sweaty clubs.

Part of what makes Rihanna stand out is how she took the bad-girl template and blew it up into something more complicated: an artist who could be unabashedly feminine but who could out-nasty her male counterparts at every turn, whose sexual frankness never got in the way of her tenderness or depth, who could be both dirty and genuine—you know, like a whole person. These are the tracks that highlight Rihanna at her most empowered and unapologetic.

Rihanna isn’t just a magnetic personality, she’s got a great voice—a quality not always apparent in her brasher music, but one that comes out immediately in her ballads. And while the tracks here highlight her vocal range, they also explore a tenderness and vulnerability that make her as much an artist you can turn to for comfort and inspiration as one you can take to the club. We’ve all got that side, of course—but not everyone can bring it out.

As down-to-earth as she can be, Rihanna’s also responsible for some of the most transcendently escapist pop songs of the past couple decades: Think “We Found Love” or “Don’t Stop the Music”, whose sense of tension-and-release whips dance floors into states of ecstasy. This is RiRi at her dance-pop best.

The Barbadian bombshell's saucy shows of strength, disarming displays of vulnerability and appetite for cutting-edge beats have helped shape the pop and R&B charts of the late ‘10s. Acts like Fifth Harmony and Kehlani combine powers with irresistible, club-ready hooks à la Rihanna; tracks like Camila Cabello's “Havana” and Major Lazer and MØ's “Lean On” summon Caribbean influences in a way that recalls Ri-Ri's “Rude Boy”.