S.O.S with the cool looking long haired girl: dancing at the beach was the beginning of Rihanna's climb to the top of the music chart.
Robyn Rihanna Fenty commonly known as Rihanna was born on the 20th February 1988 in Saint Michael Barbados. She is not just a singer, but a song writer: executive producer, dancer, video director, philanthropist, cultural ambassador, author and actress. She is signed under Def Jam, SRP and ROC nation labels.
Her first step in achieving her dream was her move to the United States of America at age 16.
'05 was the year she produced her debut studio album 'Music of the sun' which I'll refer to as her GOOD GIRL album. During this stage of her life, although she was already signed to Def Jam with Jayz and the rest: she was still seen as a normal teenage girl, that loved playing at the beach, loved wearing her hair long and loved colorful ornaments.
By '07 she released her third studio album 'GOOD GIRL GONE BAD' which peaked at number 2 on the billboard 200 and featured 'Umbrella, take a bow, Disturbia and Don't stop the music'
She adopted a more rebellious image, while recording the album: eventually dying her hair black and cutting it short. Rihanna commented;
"I want to keep the people dancing but still be soulful at the same time [...] You feel different every album, and at this stage I feel like i want o do a lot of uptempo[songs]."Unlike previous work, the album featured a more dance-pop sound instead of the dancehall reggae and ballad styles
From Umbrella, we could see our cute Rihanna evolving to something different: the long hair gone: the cheerful make up dimmed.
We assumed that was just a phase in her life: as every teenager had to go through phases, but by the time we saw 'Take a bow and Disturbia' we knew our good girl had really gone BAD!! Disturbia with all the dark looking demented pictures, Gothic make up, dark dressing: we were mega sure that our good girl had disappeared beneath the shadows of the dark Rihanna.
In '09 'Rated R' was released : which showed a deeper side to the dark Rihanna: It was released a little while after our pop artist was beaten up badly by her pop star boyfriend Chris Brown. At this point it is sensible to note that most of Rihanna's songs are emotional. Seems like our pop artist is really emotional, but she tries to cover it all up beneath the dark make up...
In November 2010: Rihanna released her 5th album 'LOUD' which features the US number one single 'Only Girl(in the world) and 'What's my name' which shows us a different Rihanna with Red hair: but with a more gentle face.
Now the question is: IS RIHANNA TRYING TO GO BACK TO HER GOOD GIRL STAGE???
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