She has attained fourteen Billboard Hot 100 number ones thus far and is the second Barbadian artist to win a Grammy Award. She is also a cultural ambassador for Barbados. In 2021 Rihanna was named a "National Hero" in her home country, earning her the title "The Right Excellent."
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados to Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor, and Monica Fenty, an accountant. Her mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese and her father is Bajan and Irish. She is the oldest of three siblings; two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty. She began singing at around the age of seven. Her childhood was deeply affected by her father's addiction to crack cocaine and parent's rocky marriage, which ended when she was fourteen years old. Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates at the age of fifteen. In 2004 she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant. She was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.
At the age of 15, she formed a girl group with two of her classmates. In 2003, friends introduced Rihanna and her two bandmates to record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. The group auditioned for Rogers, who said that "the minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't exist." While auditioning for Rogers, Rihanna sang Destiny's Child's cover of "Emotion". Over the next year, Rihanna and her mom shuttled back and forth to Rogers home in Stamford, Connecticut. Then, shortly after turning 16, she relocated in the United States and moved in with Rogers and his wife. Carl Sturken helped Rihanna record a four-song demo, which included the ballad "The Last Time," a cover of Whitney Houston’s hit "For the Love of You" and what would become her first hit, "Pon de Replay" to send to various recording companies. It took a year to record the demos, because she was going to school and would only record during summer and Christmas school breaks. Rihanna's demo made its way to Def Jam, which invited her to audition for the label's then-president, Jay-Z, who quickly signed her.
Rihanna broke into the recording industry in 2005 with the release of her debut album Music of the Sun, which features the number 2 hit single "Pon de Replay". Less than a year later, Rihanna released album artist=Rihanna]A Girl Like Me and earned her first number-one single, "SOS, which sampled the popular 80s track "Tainted Love". "Unfaithful" was also released and was fairly successful.
Rihanna released her third album Good Girl Gone Bad in June 2007. Prior to the release of the album, she spent the week of the Grammys writing songs for the album with Ne-Yo. She adopted a more sexual image while recording the album, eventually dying her hair black and cutting it short. Rihanna worked with Timbaland and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, as well as previous musical collaborators such as Stargate, Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers to re-imagine her album compositions with uptempo dance tracks. Rihanna commented, "I want to keep people dancing but still be soulful at the same time. You feel different every album, and [at] this stage I feel like I want to do a lot of uptempo [songs]."
The album topped the charts in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Russia and Ireland, and peaked at number two in the United States and Australia. Unlike previous work, the album featured a more dance-pop sound instead of the dancehall, reggae and ballad styles. The album received positive reviews by critics, becoming her most critically acclaimed album at that time compared to her previous efforts.
It yielded eight hit singles - "Umbrella" "Shut Up and Drive", "Don't Stop The Music" "Hate That I Love You" "Rehab" "Disturbia" "Take A Bow" "If I Never See Your Face Again" - all singles reaching the top twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 — including the worldwide number-one hit "Umbrella," featuring Jay-Z.
In addition to reaching number one in various countries, "Umbrella" was the number one single in the United Kingdom for ten consecutive weeks, making it the longest-running number-one single since Wet Wet Wet's single "Love Is All Around" spent fifteen weeks at the top in 1994. The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007 published by Rolling Stone magazine. In 2008, "Umbrella" earned Rihanna and Jay-Z a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in addition to receiving nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It managed to stay at number one in the United Kingdom for 10 weeks, the longest time spent by a female and in the 21st century, on this chart.
"Umbrella" has also been recognised in various forms of accolades by the music press. The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007, published by the music magazine Rolling Stone. Time magazine also listed the song number three on their Top 10 Songs of 2007. The song is listed number one on Entertainment Weekly magazine's list of the 10 Best Singles of 2007, while topping the magazine's poll for the best single of 2007. Blender magazine awarded the song Song of the Year in their Readers' Poll 2007. The music press has considered "Umbrella" as 2007's Song of the Summer, while The New York Times writer Kelefa Sanneh regarded it as "arguably 2007's signature slow jam".
In August 2009, Rihanna collaborated with Jay-Z and Kanye West on "Run This Town." The song peaked at number two on Billboard Hot 100 and also reached the top ten in five other countries. She appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia for the September 2009 Issue. The shoot was influenced by Rihanna's hair, which she had cut for the shoot into a mohawk-like style. The style of the shoot was Extreme Couture and very dark, and in one shot she appeared semi-nude. Rihanna performed "Run This Town" along with Jay-Z and West for the "Answer the Call" concert at Madison Square Garden in September 2009, making it her first musical performance since the altercation with Brown. The trio also performed "Run This Town," on the premiere of The Jay Leno Show on September 14, 2009.
In November of 2009, Rated R was released in the wake of a physical altercation with romantic interest Chris Brown, who pled guilty to felony assault. The album's lead single, "Russian Roulette" -- written with Ne-Yo - was one of the year's most controversial singles. The album also includes collaborations with Tricky, The-Dream, Stargate, and SRP.
One year later, Rihanna released her fifth studio album called Loud. It's lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)", reached number one in more than ten countries. The song also won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.
Talk That Talk was released one year after Loud. With the song "We Found Love", Rihanna became the fastest solo artist in the chart's history to achieve twenty Hot 100 top-ten singles, breaking the previous record set by Madonna. The song later became her eleventh number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. "You Da One" became the second single from the album but was not as successful as "We Found Love". The third single from the album, "Talk That Talk" featuring Jay-Z, was announced on Rihanna's Twitter. The fourth single, "Where Have You Been", peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.
On February 20, 2012, Rihanna and Chris Brown released 2 remixes, one featuring the "Talk That Talk" album track "Birthday Cake" and the other featuring Chris Brown's "Turn Up The Music"
In April 2012, the singer appeared in the movie "Battleship", which is based on the game of the same name.
Rihanna's seventh album Unapologetic was released on November 19, 2012; it was preceded by the lead single Diamonds, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Rihanna's twelfth number one single on the chart and tying her with Madonna and The Supremes for the fourth-most number ones in the chart's history.
On January 28, 2016, Rihanna released her eighth studio album ANTI exclusively through streaming service Tidal. The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200, becoming Rihanna's second number one and eighth top ten album on the chart. The album was supported by the release of four singles including the lead single "Work" featuring Drake, which topped the Billboard Hot 100. Further platinum singles "Needed Me" and "Love on the Brain" both peaked inside the top ten of the Hot 100. In 2016, Rihanna was featured on several singles. The first collaboration was Calvin Harris' "This Is What You Came For," which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two in the United Kingdom. Rihanna was also featured on Drake's "Too Good" from his album Views and Mike Will Made It's single, "Nothing Is Promised". On June 27, 2016, Rihanna released "Sledgehammer", the lead single from the Star Trek Beyond soundtrack. On August 28, Rihanna was honored with the MTV Video Vanguard Award at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Rihanna was elected artist of the decade of 2010 by Pitchfork, Insider, Lofficiel among other major music magazines.
In October 2022, Rihanna released "Lift Me Up" from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, marking her first solo single since 2016's "Love On The Brain". It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 in the UK. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award, making it Rihanna's first nomination in both awards. On February 12, 2023, she performed at the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, marking her first performance since the 2018 Grammy Awards. Her Halftime show became the second most watched Halftime show of all time with 118.7 million viewers, just after Lady Gaga’s (117.5 million), but behind Katy Perry’s (121 million).
Selfish Girl
Rihanna Lyrics
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I saw you smiling suddenly
I can't get you out my mind
I got it bad boy I can't lie
I want your time and your full attention
I wanna to talk to you and
Not to mention good love that you give to me
I think about it constantly
It's just the simple facts of life
I'm crazy over you
I'm a selfish girl when it comes to you
Every minute of the day
I'm addicted to what you're giving me
Boy it's killing me
When it comes to love I'm not trying share you
You might think I'm greedy but I just don't care
I need you in my world 'cause I'm a selfish girl
I understand that you got your crew
But I've got something in mind for you
Make you lose all track of time
Guaranteed to blow your mind
I don't care what anybody got to say
Maybe they never had it quite this way
Let them talk and criticize
They all need to recognize
They might see I'm a bit extreme
To need you night and day
What I feel can't be concealed
There ain't no other way
I'm a selfish girl when it comes to you
Every minute of the day
I'm addicted to what you're giving me
Boy it's killing me
When it comes to love I'm not trying share you
You might think I'm greedy but I just don't care
I need you in my world 'cause I'm a selfish girl
Boy you got me tripping
I didn't know what I was missing
This is crazy (crazy)
So amazing (so amazing)
I didn't mean to be demanding but I hope you're understanding
I'm not playing boy (I'm not playing boy)
I'm just saying boy
They might say I'm a bit extreme
To need you night and day
But what I feel can't be concealed
There ain't no other way
I'm a selfish girl when it comes to you
Every minute of the day
I'm addicted to what you're giving me
Boy it's killing me
When it comes to love I'm not trying share you
You might think I'm greedy but I just don't care
I need you in my world 'cause I'm a selfish girl
Boy you got me tripping
I didn't know what I was missing
This is crazy (crazy)
So amazing (so amazing)
I didn't mean to be demanding but I hope you're understanding
Rihanna's song Selfish Girl is about a woman who is deeply infatuated with a man and can't get him out of her head. She's addicted to the love and attention he gives her and wants him all to herself, hence the title "Selfish Girl." She's willing to do anything to keep him interested, but at the same time, she's not sorry for feeling the way she does. She doesn't want to share him with anyone else and is willing to defend her feelings against anyone who criticizes her.
The lyrics suggest that the woman is very possessive, and it is evident when she says, "When it comes to love, I'm not trying to share you. You might think I'm greedy, but I just don't care. I need you in my world because I'm selfish girl." However, there is no indication that the man feels the same way, and the woman seems content just to have his love and attention.
As the song progresses, the woman continues to express her feelings of addiction, desire, and selfishness. She says, "Boy, you got me tripping. I didn't know what I was missing. This is crazy, so amazing." Her emotions are intense and overpowering, and she can't control her need for his love and attention, which leads her to be selfish.
In conclusion, Rihanna's Selfish Girl is an expression of the intensity of infatuation and how love can make people become selfish when they can't have the object of their desire.
Line by Line Meaning
Baby boy what you done to me
You've captured my heart.
I saw you smiling suddenly
Your smile has a powerful effect on me.
I can't get you out my mind
You consume my thoughts.
I got it bad boy I can't lie
I'm deeply infatuated with you.
I want your time and your full attention
I want you to prioritize me.
I wanna to talk to you and
I want to communicate with you.
Not to mention good love that you give to me
Your love satisfies me deeply.
I think about it constantly
I'm always thinking about our connection.
No I won't apologize for feeling like I do
I won't feel guilty for my strong emotions.
It's just the simple facts of life
This is just how life works sometimes.
I'm crazy over you
I'm head over heels for you.
I'm a selfish girl when it comes to you
I'm possessive of you and don't want to share.
Every minute of the day
My obsession with you is constant.
I'm addicted to what you're giving me
Your attention and love are like a drug to me.
Boy it's killing me
It's painful to be away from you.
When it comes to love I'm not trying to share you
I don't want to see anyone else with you.
You might think I'm greedy but I just don't care
I'm aware of my possessiveness, but it doesn't matter to me.
I need you in my world 'cause I'm a selfish girl
You complete my world and I don't want to let you go.
I understand that you got your crew
I know you have your friends.
But I've got something in mind for you
I have something special planned for us.
Make you lose all track of time
Our time together will be so engrossing that time won't matter.
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Our experience will be amazing.
I don't care what anybody got to say
I don't want to hear anyone's opinion.
Maybe they never had it quite this way
They don't understand our connection.
Let them talk and criticize
I don't care about what other people say.
They all need to recognize
They should acknowledge the strength of our bond.
They might see I'm a bit extreme
Others might view me as overly possessive.
To need you night and day
I want to be with you 24/7.
What I feel can't be concealed
My emotions for you are too powerful to hide.
There ain't no other way
This is just how I am and feel.
Boy you got me tripping
You make me feel giddy and euphoric.
I didn't know what I was missing
I didn't realize how much I needed you.
This is crazy (crazy)
Our connection is intense and almost unbelievable.
So amazing (so amazing)
Our relationship is incredible.
I didn't mean to be demanding but I hope you're understanding
I didn't intend to be pushy, but I hope you comprehended my feelings.
I'm not playing boy (I'm not playing boy)
I'm serious about my emotions for you.
I'm just saying boy
I'm simply expressing myself.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Carl Allen Sturken, Evan A. Rogers
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