The cover art for the is iconic. Shot by Roy Nachum, it features a childhood photo of Rihanna wearing a crown, with a black bar covering her eyes (a symbol of blindness to prejudice). The embossed braille on the physical cover translates to a poem about being "anti-everything."
The Deluxe Edition maintains the same avant-garde, anti-glamour aesthetic as the standard: a childhood-inspired polaroid collage cover, with the deluxe version often marked by a sticker or altered barcode rather than different artwork. Rihanna - ANTI -Deluxe- -2016-Album-
The showstopper. A doo-wop/rock ‘n’ roll hybrid where Rihanna unleashes her inner Tina Turner. For the first time in her career, she belts for real—no Auto-Tune, no layering. The peaks here with raw, bruised vocal cords. The cover art for the is iconic
The behemoth. The 15-week Billboard Hot 100 #1. However, in the context of the , "Work" is not a club banger; it is a patois-laden confession of emotional labor. Drake’s verse fits the album’s theme of push-and-pull. Without the deluxe edition’s slower moments, "Work" might feel out of place, but sequenced here, it acts as the commercial anchor. The showstopper
The album rejects the high-gloss EDM and pop-dance sounds of her earlier eras in favor of a gritty, psychedelic, and soulful landscape. Genre-Blurring: