Hard

At first I hated Rihanna's new album "Rated R" and then I gave it a second chance, a third chance, and it really wasn't until like the sixth chance really that something clicked in my head and I finally GOT it.   The theme and sounds are totally different from her last album, which I loved.  "Rated R" is still pop, but a harder, tougher, angrier type of pop.   Let's call it "hard pop."  Pop music that comes from getting the shit beat out of you by your douche ex-boyfriend.  The album could've been called "Eff Love."

Here's an example of some of the lyrics for "G4L" one of my favorite songs on the album: 

I lick the gun when I’m done
Cause I know that revenge is sweet, so sweet
This is a gang.
Ladies bang, baby, bang.
Tell me what you need? Ohh…

Any motherfucker wanna disrespect
Playin’ with fire finna get you wet
How i'd feel down there on your knees?
Got these girls like a soilder, trippin, it’s goin down, down, down

Wow.

Here she is looking something fierce on the cover of the February 2010 issue of W magazine. And here is a super sick remix of her latest single "Hard." So good!