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).
love the way you lie (part ii
Rihanna Lyrics
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The future seemed so bright
Then this thing turned out so evil
I don't know why I'm still surprised
Even angels have their wicked schemes
And you take that to new extremes
But you'll always be my hero
Even though you've lost your mind
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's all right because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
Oh, I love the way you lie
Now there's gravel in our voices
Glass is shattered from the fight
In this tug of war, you'll always win
Even when I'm right
'Cause you feed me fables from your head
With violent words and empty threats
And it's sick that all these battles
Are what keeps me satisfied
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's all right because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
Oh, I love the way you lie
So maybe I'm a masochist
I try to run but I don't want to ever leave
'Til the walls are goin' up
In smoke with all our memories
This morning, you wake, a sun ray hits your face
Smeared makeup as we lay in the wake of destruction
Hush baby, speak softly, tell me how awfully sorry
That you pushed me into the coffee table last night
So I can push you off me
Try and touch me so I can scream at you not to touch me
Run out the room and I'll follow you like a lost puppy
Baby, without you, I'm nothing, I'm so lost, hug me
Then tell me how ugly I am, but that you'll always love me
Then after that, shove me, in the aftermath of the
Destructive path that we're on, two psychopaths but we
Know that no matter how many knives we put in each other's backs
That we'll have each other's backs, 'cause we're that lucky
Together, we move mountains, let's not make mountains out of molehills
You hit me twice, yeah, but who's counting?
I may have hit you three times, I'm startin' to lose count
But together, we'll live forever, we found the youth fountain
Our love is crazy, we're nuts, but I refused counseling
This house is too huge, if you move out I'll burn all two thousand
Square feet of it to the ground, ain't shit you can do about it
'Cause with you I'm in my fuckin' mind, without you, I'm out it
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's all right because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
The lyrics to Rihanna's "Love the Way You Lie" depict a toxic and tumultuous relationship where even the angels have evil schemes, and violent words and empty threats are commonplace. The song begins with the singer reflecting on how the future once appeared bright but everything took a negative turn. Despite this, the singer still views their partner as a hero, even though they have lost their mind. As the song progresses, the singer admits to being a masochist, expressing their willingness to endure pain and destruction in order to stay in the abusive relationship. The song ends on a note of absurdity, with the couple declaring their love for each other while acknowledging their mentally unstable behavior.
The chorus of the song, "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn, but that's alright because I like the way it hurts," implies that the singer is willing to burn in the relationship and suffer the consequences because they are addicted to the pain. The song brings attention to the reality of domestic violence, which is often cyclical, chaotic, and unhealthy. It is tragic and disturbing when love is expressed through the abuse of power, control, and manipulation, as demonstrated in the song.
Overall, "Love the Way You Lie" serves as a powerful commentary on the dangers posed by relationships fueled by emotional turmoil and abuse. The song portrays vividly the effects of domestic violence on individuals and society, from the emotional scars to the physical harm, and the desperation that keeps one captive in such relationships.
Line by Line Meaning
On the first page of our story
At the beginning, everything seemed positive and full of potential.
The future seemed so bright
Hope and optimism characterized the beginning of the relationship.
Then this thing turned out so evil
The situation became toxic and harmful.
I don't know why I'm still surprised
Despite the ongoing problems, there is still a sense of shock and disbelief.
Even angels have their wicked schemes
People who may seem perfect on the surface can also act in malevolent ways.
And you take that to new extremes
Your behavior is especially extreme and harmful.
But you'll always be my hero
Despite your faults, there are still positive qualities that inspire loyalty and affection.
Even though you've lost your mind
Despite the negative changes in behavior and attitude, there is still a deep attachment.
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
You are unwilling to intervene despite being aware of the emotional pain and turmoil that I am experiencing.
But that's all right because I like the way it hurts
Despite the negative emotions, there is still a draw or attraction to the relationship, perhaps because it feels familiar or exciting.
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
You are silent in the face of my distress.
But that's all right because I love the way you lie
Despite your dishonesty and manipulation, there is still a deep emotional connection.
Now there's gravel in our voices
Communication has deteriorated to a harsh, combative tone.
Glass is shattered from the fight
There has been physical destruction as a result of the ongoing conflict.
In this tug of war, you'll always win
Even when I am right, your control and manipulation ensure that you come out on top.
Even when I'm right
Despite being in the right or having a valid point, it is ignored or dismissed.
'Cause you feed me fables from your head
Your stories and explanations are not rooted in reality, but are distorted to suit your own purposes.
With violent words and empty threats
Your responses are often aggressive and contain no real substance or consequences.
And it's sick that all these battles
Despite the emotional distress and harm, there is still a sense of satisfaction or enjoyment in the conflict.
Are what keeps me satisfied
The chaos and fighting are what provides some sense of fulfillment and satisfaction.
So maybe I'm a masochist
There is an acknowledgement that the continued participation in this negative relationship may be a form of self-harm or emotional damage.
I try to run but I don't want to ever leave
Despite knowing that leaving might be best, there is still an emotional attachment that makes it difficult to go.
'Til the walls are goin' up
The situation is escalating and becoming more destructive.
In smoke with all our memories
The destruction of the relationship is taking away any positive memories or experiences that once existed.
Hush baby, speak softly, tell me how awfully sorry
Attempts to reconcile often come with apologies and attempts to appease or calm tensions.
That you pushed me into the coffee table last night
There has been physical harm and abuse in the relationship.
So I can push you off me
Violence and aggression have become normalized in the relationship.
Try and touch me so I can scream at you not to touch me
Attempts at physical contact are met with resistance or aggression.
Run out the room and I'll follow you like a lost puppy
Despite conflict and negative emotions, there is still a sense of attachment or dependency that makes separation difficult.
Baby, without you, I'm nothing, I'm so lost, hug me
There is a sense that without the other person, there is no sense of identity or purpose.
Then tell me how ugly I am, but that you'll always love me
Despite emotional abuse and negativity, there is still a sense of affection or love that makes it difficult to leave the relationship.
Then after that, shove me, in the aftermath of the
The cycle of negative behavior and emotions continues even after moments of affection or remorse.
Destructive path that we're on, two psychopaths but we
There is an acknowledgement that both parties are contributing to the destruction and chaos, and that something needs to change.
Know that no matter how many knives we put in each other's backs
Despite all of the pain and betrayal, there is still a sense of loyalty or connection that keeps them together.
That we'll have each other's backs, 'cause we're that lucky
There is a sense of gratitude or fortune that despite everything, they still have each other.
Together, we move mountains, let's not make mountains out of molehills
Together, they are capable of great things, and should not get bogged down by insignificant or petty details.
You hit me twice, yeah, but who's counting?
The normalization of violence and abuse is present in the relationship.
I may have hit you three times, I'm startin' to lose count
The cycle of violence and abuse is perpetuated by both parties, with neither willing to take responsibility or make changes.
But together, we'll live forever, we found the youth fountain
Despite all the problems, there is a sense that they can overcome anything and will be together forever.
Our love is crazy, we're nuts, but I refused counseling
There is an awareness that the situation is not healthy, yet a resistance to getting help and making changes.
This house is too huge, if you move out I'll burn all two thousand
There is a sense of entitlement to the things that they have built together, and a refusal to allow the other person to leave.
Square feet of it to the ground, ain't shit you can do about it
There is a sense of dominance and control that makes it difficult for the other person to leave.
'Cause with you I'm in my fuckin' mind, without you, I'm out it
The relationship is causing a great deal of emotional distress and imbalance, but the thought of losing the other person is too daunting to contemplate.
I love the way you lie
Despite all the problems and negativity, there is still a sense of emotional attachment and even love that keeps them together.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Alexander Junior Grant, Marshall Bruce Mathers, Holly Hafermann
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