Good Girl Gone Bad Live and will.i.am. Most of the album tracks were recorded in Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, parallel to the recording sessions of her second studio album, "A Girl like Me". Rihanna began working on the album in late 2006 and was almost finished recording in late February 2007. On June 4, 2007 she released the album under the name "Good Girl Gone Bad". During an interview with MTV News, Rihanna explained the meaning and reasoning behind the album's title: Upon its release, "Good Girl Gone Bad" received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Rihanna a Grammy
Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes a reworked version of the bonus disc from the European deluxe edition of "Good Girl Gone Bad". However, "Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes" excludes the remixes of the "A Girl like Me" single "SOS" and the "Good Girl Gone Bad" bonus tracks "Cry" and "Haunted", in favor of remixes of the new "Reloaded" tracks "Disturbia" and "Take a Bow". Additionally, a Lindberg Palace remix of "Umbrella" was added. While the original album's bonus disc includes the full-length remixes, "Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes" includes only radio edits, which cut the original versions by three to four minutes. Critical