| Riot in English | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Dale Bozzio |
| Cover: | RiotInEnglish.jpeg |
| Border: | yes |
| Recorded: | 1987 |
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| Label: | Paisley Park |
| Next Title: | New Wave Sessions |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
Riot in English is the debut studio album by American singer Dale Bozzio. It was released on March 4, 1988, by Paisley Park Records. Bozzio began working on the album after her divorce from Terry Bozzio and the break-up of their band Missing Persons. She got signed to Prince's record label Paisley Park Records and collaborated with Robert Brookins and Attala Zane Giles on the album while co-writing most of the songs. Musically, the songs took a slightly different direction than her work with Missing Persons, incorporating more dance-pop sound rather than new wave music.
Three singles were released from the album. The lead single "Simon Simon" reached the dance charts, peaking inside the top forty on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. However, the following singles "Riot in English" and "Overtime" failed to chart.
Joe Viglione from AllMusic praised Bozzio's lyrics, saying that "she knows how to pull a chic cliché and envelope it" and also added that Prince gave her "the opportunity to prove she's as charming on record as she is in person and a talent in her own right apart from Missing Persons". Trouser Press noted that "the commercial dance music ... plays up the flexibility of Dale's voice, but the pre-fab cookie-cutter material and arrangements come as quite a disappointment after the stylistic invention of her former group."[1]
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[2]