Her debut, Music of the Sun, mostly written and produced by the team of Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken, is an inoffensive, thoroughly generic teen-pop record with a few Caribbean touches in its arrangements and one likeable dance single, "Pon de Replay." Her swiftly recorded follow-up A Girl Like M... 

 Her debut, Music of the Sun, mostly written and produced by the team of Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken, is an inoffensive, thoroughly generic teen-pop record with a few Caribbean touches in its arrangements and one likeable dance single, "Pon de Replay." Her swiftly recorded follow-up A Girl Like M... 

 Re-released a year into its run with three more songs (including the grandly contemptuous kiss-off "Take a Bow") and the subtitle "Reloaded," Good Girl ended up yielding seven major hits. The biggest was the summer wonder "Umbrella," featuring both an introductory verse by Jay-Z and a video in wh... 

 Rated R is slicker and more diverse. Arrangements are more precise, vocals are more prominent, and on “Feel Good Hit of the Summer,” Judas Priest’s Rob Halford helps sing: “Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol/C-c-c-c-c-cocaine!!!” “In the Fade” is a ballad, and...