“I got to do things my own way, darling/Will you ever let me?/Will you ever respect me?” Rihanna asks in her native Barbadian patois on “Consideration,” the opening track of Anti. To say that the album, her first in over three years, has had a contentious road to release is an understatement, with reports of false starts and, eventually, the promotion of three singles that, though moderately successfully, failed to resonate with fans or critics the way her past hits have. And without missing a beat, Rihanna provides a pointed, unapologetic rejoinder to the rhetorical questions posed in the song's lyrics: “No.”
