Official track list for her album

1. Mad House
2. Wait Your Turn
3. Hard feat. Young Jeezy
4. Stupid In Love
5. ROCKSTAR 101 feat. Slash
6. Russian Roulette
7. Fire Bomb
8. Rude Boy
9. Photographs feat. will.i.am
10. G4L
11. Te Amo
12. Cold Case Love
13. The Last Song


The video for "The Wait Is Ova" is premiering this week. I see Beyonce (no shade) is trying to put a stop to Rihanna's comeback by releasing "Video Phone" video this week.
[Edited 11/2/09 13:28pm]

This leaked yesterday. I really like it too...

New promo pic for "Rated R" project.

New promo pic for "Rated R" project.
[Edited 11/4/09 12:51pm]

I don't know, really, but something about her or her image makes me uneasy. After I listened to song and looked at the artwork for her CD I just thought....yikes. I'll listen to what she has to say in this interview before I decide how I feel about her, though.

Any artist who sells sexual imagery to kids is a problem for me. If a large majority of your core listening audience has to have a parent accompany them to your concerts, than it's time to re-think your image IMO. Unfortunately, most people over the age of 15 know how to get music without paying for it, so that's why many artists seem to want to cater to the younger sect I guess. All just my

Rihanna: Going back to Brown after beating 'wrong'

NEW YORK – Rihanna said Thursday that she regrets going back to ex-boyfriend Chris Brown after he left her bruised and battered during a February assault, warning other women facing domestic violence to not let themselves become blinded by love.

"It's completely normal to go back. You start lying to yourself," the 21-year-old singer said on "Good Morning America" in her first TV interview following the beating. "I'll say that to any young girl who is going through domestic violence: 'Don't react off of love.'"

Brown, 20, was arrested Feb. 8, hours after he was accused of beating Rihanna after the couple attended a pre-Grammy Awards party. He later pleaded guilty to felony assault and a judge ordered Brown and Rihanna to stay away from each other.

In the interview, Rihanna, who is no longer with Brown, said she was ashamed to go back to him after the attack. "That's embarrassing — that's the type of person I fell in love with. So far in love, so unconditional, that I went back," she said. "That's not what I want to teach people."

The attack occurred in Los Angeles' Hancock Park neighborhood as Brown drove a rented sports car. A Los Angeles police detective described a brutal attack in a search warrant affidavit filed in the case, stating Brown hit, choked and bit Rihanna and tried at one point to push her from the car. A photo of her bruised face was circulated on the Internet. In an interview with Glamour magazine, posted online Tuesday, she said about the leaked photo, "I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it's my life."

In her interview with "Good Morning America," Rihanna said she soon realized that, as a role model to young women, her returning to Brown sent the wrong message. "When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be held responsible for telling them, 'Go back,'" she said.

"I didn't realize how much of an impact I had on these girls' lives until that happened," she added. "It was a wake-up call for me, big time, especially when I took myself out of the situation."

Brown's career suffered after his arrest, with sponsors dropping him and radio stations refusing to play his music. Both he and Rihanna had to cancel several high-profile appearances, including planned performances at the Grammy Awards the day of the attack.

Brown has apologized to fans and has said he has repeatedly apologized to Rihanna for the attack.

In August, Brown said he was still in shock about his actions. He also revealed that he called his mother, who was a domestic violence victim, the night of the attack and broke down.

ABC will air more chunks of the interview on Friday's "Good Morning America" and then Friday evening on the news magazine "20/20." Brown also will recount his perspective in an interview to air Friday on MTV.

Rihanna's interview coincides with the debut of her new single, "Russian Roulette," from her upcoming album, "Rated R." It's her first CD since 2007's multiplatinum "Good Girl Gone Bad."

In Thursday's interview, Rihanna said, "I am strong. This happened to me. I didn't cause this. I didn't do it. This can happen to me and it can happen to anybody."

bettybop said:




It SHOULD make you uneasy.
These assholes are getting very bold with destructive messages these days. They dress it up in a pretty girl and push it onto the public.

estelle81 said:

They ALL sell sex. Its when they start subliminally selling suicide - that's where I draw the line.
Interview be damned, this chick has NOTHING to offer to the public musically.
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Graycap23 said:

eye candy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_en_ot/us_people_rihanna




It's nice that she considered her young fans when she officially dumped Chris Brown for good. I'm a little confused that she doesn't consider them when it comes to her sexual image, but over-sexed imagery is the lesser of two evils in her situation so

estelle81 said:

It's a bit ridiculous to get pissy about a sexual image on a PRINCE forum considering how he started and remained for a long time AND the proteges he had.

purplesweat said:

Actually, I was commenting on the fact that SHE made the comment about the impression she gives her young, female fans and an over-sexed image isn't something to present to young girls who, she even admitted, can be impressionable to what celebrities do. It's the same context as the supermodel who got fired because she was told that she was too fat to model for the company and she was a size 4. There are lots of young girls who look at these female celebrities as rolemodels and sadly many of them try to emulate their favorite female celebrity which is 100% fact no matter who wants to argue with it. Girls were copying Rihanna's hairstyle from her previous album so I know that what I'm sayin' isn't a figment of my imagination...same thing was happening with Jennifer Aniston's hair during the height of 'Friends' popularity and women getting ass implants to get that 'J. Lo Booty' and collagen injections in their lips to get the 'Angelina Jolie look'.

Our society has become more obsessed with celebrities than ever, so if she's going to be so concerned with her young fans than she should take all aspects that can cause negative effects on them into consideration and not just one. If she puts a 'Parental Advisory' sticker on her new album (which I'm sure she will; hopefully) due to the mature lyrical content, than I'll definitely give her praise and put all the blame on the parents who buy it for their young kids who shouldn't be hearing it. Honestly, I think she's a waay better rolemodel than Miley Cyrus.

Firstly, Prince's first album imagery really wasn't overly-sexual and nothing like what music is nowadays. Secondly, Rihanna damn sure ain't no Prince no matter how much people are saying they currently look alike.

Kinda insulting to compare the two of them; because, despite sexual imagery on Prince's part, he could have made it without the sexual image just fine and Rihanna really can't. Prince's sexual imagery came in waay behind his skills as a songwriter, composer, producer, and musician...their just the cherry on the top of the sundae; but a sundae would still be a sundae without a cherry on top. Even now at Prince's age, some of his lyrics are still risque ('Elixir' anyone), but his image totally isn't.

Sexual lyrics and sexual imagery can be totally different things at the end of the day. 90s R&B was loaded with sexual lyrics, but the videos and the artist's images didn't show that, in fact you had to listen to some songs several times because you had no idea that the song was overly-sexual in content.

Graycap23 said:

STYLE, honey

I like her too,,,,,untill she opens her mountain goat sounding mouth.

Rihanna on Love, Breaking Down and Her New CD
November 10, 2009

Rihanna says recording songs on her new album was such an emotional experience that she sometimes had to leave the studio to prevent herself from breaking down.
"I walked out the studio a few times just trying not to be in tears," she said Monday about recording her fourth studio album, Rated R, to be released on Nov. 23.

"It was about me, and so much so that songs got really personal to the point where it took three months for me to start recording it because it was too deep for me to even listen to," she said.

The CD comes nine months after the 21-year-old singing sensation was attacked by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. Rihanna said recording helped ease the pain — giving her an outlet to express how she truly felt.

"I got to vent because I didn't really talk a lot. I didn't talk to a lot of people about anything I was feeling. I just did it on the record," she said.

Brown was arrested Feb. 8. He was accused of beating Rihanna after they attended a pre-Grammy party. Brown later pleaded guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to five years' probation, six months of community labor and a year of domestic violence counseling.

Following the attack, Rihanna said she was sick of sitting at home and decided to head to the studio.

"I was tired of just being in the house and I just felt like I was wasting so much time and just being lackadaisical, so I just wanted to work again and we started recording," she said.

Rihanna, who won a Grammy for the megahit Umbrella, says the new album's sound is darker than her previous ones because it reflects her turbulent year.

"The recording experience was different because it was from a completely new mind space, from a different perspective. Usually I was thinking of fun stories, things to talk about, different topics that might be cool, but this time is really about my life," she said.

She also said she's excited for fans to hear a song called Stupid In Love.

"You're blinded by love, love is blind and sometimes you can't see it coming and it's just coming to the realization of the state of a relationship and just saying, 'This is not what I like. It doesn't make me happy,'" she said.

Rihanna said the album is a reflection of Rihanna the woman — not the image we've come to know.

"I feel like my fans, they knew me, they knew what I looked like, but they didn't really know what my personality was. They didn't really know how I think or what I stand for. They didn't really know much about me as a person. They just knew my image and the idea of me," she said.

"But I wanted to give them more of who I really was because I feel like that was a connection I was missing."

Rihanna credits this album with helping her look forward instead of dwelling in past.

"Venting is a part of moving on, like you have to get it out no matter what, and this album for me helped me do that — being in the studio, writing, working with producers and songwriters, making music," she said. "It made it even more special that it came from my heart and my real... my feelings, the exact way I felt."




http://www.usatoday.com/l...anna_N.htm

Rihanna Rides Emotional Rollercoaster On 'Rated R'
After the "Mad House" intro, "Rated R" takes off with the leaked tracks "Wait Your Turn" and the Jeezy-assisted "Hard," both which feature Rihanna singing tough girl lyrics like, "I'm such a fucking lady" in her Island twang and "the hottest bitch in heels right here" over an epic piano pattern, respectively.

"Stupid In Love" follows. The heartfelt ballad finds Rihanna belting, "I still love you, but I just can't do this / I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid... you don't know what you lost, and you won't realize it till I'm gone / that I'm the one," atop a pulsating beat.

Next up is the bass-heavy, electric-guitar-laden "Rock Star," which features former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. Rihanna revels in her bad girl rebellion, crooning, "Got my middle finger up / I don't really give a fuck."

The album's first single, the gritty track "Russian Roulette," follows. "Firebomb" ends with a siren blaring while "Rudeboy" finds her singing about having a sexual rendezvous with her love interest over kick drums.

The will.i.am duet, "Photographs," is one of the album's stand-out tracks, as Rihanna laments over a lost relationship. "I don't want to be stuck in the past but you're all that I had / why couldn't you be the one," she questions over static drums.

Rihanna taps into her bad girl antics on "G4L" (the acronym is short for "Gangster For Life") once again, as she flirtatiously warns, "any motherf--kers want to disrespect / we don't play that shit," over double speed drums. Meanwhile, "Te Amo" caters to Rihanna's international fanbase with its flamenco guitars and handclaps.

The album ends with the bonus track, "The Last Song," but not before the outstanding closer "Cold Case Love," with its escalating production infused with a simple piano pattern, thumping bassline, violin strings and ultimately, electric guitar licks.

The Best Song on the New Rihanna Album Was Written with Justin Timberlake

Okay, fine. It's one of the great songs on the new Rihanna album, Rated R. I went and heard it at her record label yesterday. Two key points that stick out after just one front-to-back listen: First of all, Rihanna attacked this new album aggressively. She says "motherfucker," "bitches" and the N-word on it (sorry, Oprah). It's got violent revenge fantasies. And sex fantasies. Often she seems to be singing directly to Chris Brown. And sonically, it can be brutally dark. If her mentor Jay-Z pops up on a remix of one of these tracks (let's hope it's "Rock Star"), he definitely won't be referring to her as "Little Miss Sunshine" again. And you're damn right this thing is getting a Parental Advisory sticker.

The second key to Rated R: The album reminds you in no uncertain terms that Ri-Ri isn't an R&B singer. She's a pop star, and pop stardom requires musical versatility. She does Kelly Clarkson pop-punk ("Firebomb"). She does hip-hop heavy R&B ("Hard" featuring Young Jeezy). She does a dancehall-referencing club anthem ("Rudeboy"). And she takes a page from Michael Jackson's "Dirty Diana" playbook and borrows heavily from hard rock ("Rock Star" featuring Slash). But our favorite track is the sweeping, grandiose, almost ludicrously over-stuffed and endless album closer "Cold Case Love," written with Justin Timberlake. A little bit Phil Collins, a little bit Lionel Richie, a lot bit Justin Timberlake's "Losin My Way," the song is epic, evocative, on-message (eat shit, Chris Brown) and just plain catchy. It's like, CALL JUSTIN AND TELL HIM TO BRING THE PLATINUM-PLATED KITCHEN SINK. Yes! That's exactly what you want from the most anticipated pop album on planet earth. Rated R comes out November 23rd.