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Originally posted by Rîh.røx.
RudeBoy 
How disrespectful. First of all, Rihanna has always been kinky. Check back to the Rated R era when she said for Thanksgiving and Christmas she wanted to have "good sex" and she likes men when they're "big."
Second of all, in that interview, she said she's a masochist and enjoys pain and that type of stuff BECAUSE she witnessed abuse in her household when she was younger, and always kept to herself, and Chris Brown pushed that more, so she's not saying she likes painful sex, she said she thinks she's a masochist and relates to S&M BECAUSE of past experience. And she didnt write S&M anyway...
Also, she needs to release a ballad hun. Her last ballad was Russian Roulette and it flopped, so her last signifcant ballad smash was Take A Bow and CKB is Rihanna's BEST vocal performance ever which will get people to buy the album (ballad's sell).
Man Down is written in the style of a Caribbean song, many Caribbean songs have to do with death and guns, but aren't real, they are metaphors. Second, its a HUGE Urban smash, and everyone I know loves it, and SHE IS Caribbean so EXCUSE ME if she wants to release a song of her culture.
Get over Fading, the most generic, bland song on Loud. |
I remember that interview. And I remember it because every interview after it they asked her about wanting "good sex" for Christmas, and she then altered her answer to just "good food".
I know what she said, I read the whole interview. And that's not an excuse, she should be an example of a strong woman, not a woman who starts enjoying violence after being beaten by her father and boyfriend.
If you want to sing the song, OK, sing it, just don't give the world details about your private life. It's going to backfire at her at some stage.
Fire Bomb, The Last Song, Russian Roulette, Fading are better vocally than CKB.
Oh and, I KNOW that Man Down is a metaphor. But the thing is, you live in the world that doesn't think (Just look at shows like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom), and they fast-judge. That why no body understood the real message of S&M video, and the first thing they thought or think when they see it is that Rihanna is acting like a ****. Ofcourse, it's not Rihanna's fault that society is what it is today, but you need to adjust yourself to it. Singing about shooting a man down isn't going to make her look better, whether it's a metaphor or not, people will always only understand the one-side of the song.
Nice. hun. Are you on twitter?
We'll get a sneak peak of what is single worthy judging by what Rih performs on the Loud tour. Although tbh I don't understand why she wouldn't just perform all 11 songs, but meh