Rated R

My choice of album to quote lyrically tonight is the complete 180 Rihanna Album Rated R. Her fourth studio album I have heard people describe it as Complex, Emotional, Dark, Bleak, Brave, Aggressive and Raw just to name a few things. Others have said it's her worst album to date and a complete disappointment. To me Rated R is her most mature album and also her best album she's released.

Rihanna's three previous album have been very pop and dance orientated with hints of R'n'B thrown into the mix. Rated R on the other hand is a very dark R'n'B album with hints of hip hop and pop. What makes the album so dark is that it was her return to the music world after her being beaten into a pulp by dickhead and then boyfriend Chris Brown. It was public and messy. But the positive that came out of it was a completely different direction for Rihanna it also showed that no one agrees with this kind of abuse so her album was strong and his bombed. Not only did his album bomb but his career is basically at a stand still while she goes on strong and proves that she can come out of this stronger then he ever could or probably will. The begging and public apologies haven't fool no one.

The album hints a lot at the ordeal and the beating. No matter what people say it's there and it hits hard. A lot of the record is also very nasty and almost like a warning of revenge to Chris Brown. This is no Music Of The Sun, A Girl Like Me or Good Girl Gone Bad. This is her at her darkest and at her most honest and emotional. It's also her first record to feature a parental advisory sticker on it as she's not afraid to drop the word bitch and fuck through out the album.

My four choices to reference tonight are one song that is almost one of the greatest songs I've heard in terms of lyrical content. When a song compares the ending of a relationship to a murder scene it's so poetically fucked up it's almost perfect. Another is the revenge song and the other two are her dark first single and a lighter hearted song compared to the rest of the album. Hope you guys like my choices and agree or let me know what your favorite songs off Rated R.


RUSSIAN ROULETTE

Take a breath, take it deep
Calm yourself, he says to me
If you play, you play for keeps
Take the gun, and count to three
I'm sweating now, moving slow
No time to think, my turn to go

And you can see my heart beating
You can see it through my chest
Said I'm terrified, but I'm not leaving
I know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger

Say a prayer to yourself
He says "Close your eyes, sometimes it helps"
And then I get a scary thought
That he's here means his never lost

And you can see my heart beating
Oh, you can see it through my chest
Said I'm terrified, but I'm not leaving
Know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger

As my life flashes before my eyes
I'm wondering will I ever see another sunrise?
So many won't get the chance to say goodbye
But it's too late to think of the value of my life

And you can see my heart beating
Oh, you can see it through my chest
Said I'm terrified, but I'm not leaving, no
Know that I must pass this test

You can see my heart beating
Oh, you can see it through my chest
I'm terrified, but I'm not leaving, no
Know that I must pass this test
So just pull the trigger


FIRE BOMB

Gunfire left a hole in the tank
Losing gasoline
Fire is on my trail and he's after me
Hope it don't get here
Before I get where I'm going
I gotta get where I'm going
Take off my mask to breathe

You could have been apart of a masterpiece
Fluid in the breaks was the last to leave
That's the thing
Where I'm going, I don't need my breaks

Can't wait to see your face
When your front windows break
And I come crashing through

The lovers need to clear the road
Cause this thing is ready to blow

I just wanna to set on fire
So I wont have to burn alone
Then you, then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
Fire bomb

Seems cold but baby
No it doesn't have to be
Microwaving our metal tragedy
Watching it burn and it's beautiful and it's blue
And it's pitiful when it's through
It's the other half of me

I didn't do it, you lit the match for me
Now we're flying from the blast, baby
That's the thing
Where we're going, We don't need no breaks

Can't wait to see your face
When the front windows break
And I come crashing through

The lovers need to clear the road
Cause this thing is ready to blow

I just wanna set you on fire
So I don't have to burn alone
Then you, then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
Fire bomb

Baby, we were killing them
They couldn't handle the millionth degree
We were criminals
As we were burning the world
Called the police
Fire department, ambulance
You can call me crazy, cause I believe
The only move for me and you
Is to go out blazing

The lovers need to clear the road
Cause this thing is ready to blow

I just wanna set you on fire
So I wont have to burn alone
Then you, then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
Fire bomb


G4L

I lick the gun when I'm done
Cause I know that revenge is sweet, so sweet
This is a gang, ladies thing
Baby bang, tell me what you need

Any motherfucker wanna disrespect?
Playing with fire gonna get you wet
How'd it feel down there on your knees?
I got this girl's like a soldier
Trip and it's going down, down, down

I'm ready to roll
Girl, I'm with you with it get you to get me
So come on let's go
Bitch, I'm with you, If you with it you with me

You know I'm down, I'm down for life
Load and reload it, let's go
Gangster for life
Til the day that I die

I promise I'm standing by
Cause you know that I'm down
You know I'm down
Gangster for life

We driving by with them headlights off
We know where you stay
Know what you did, We don't play that shit
Nigga, we don't play, no

Everybody cried when you did your dirt
Acting like a bitch gonna get you hurt
Breaking lives down to the knees, oh
I got this girl's like a soldier
Trip and it's going down, down, down

I'm ready to roll
Girl, I'm with you with it get you to get me
So come on let's go
Bitch, I'm with you, if you with it you with me

You know I'm down, I'm down for life
Load and reload it, let's go
Gangster for life
Til the day that I die

I promise I'm standing by
Cause you know that I'm down
You know I'm down
Gangster for life

Girls, come on we ain't done yet
Got a lot to handle
We ain't took over the world
We're an army
Better yet a navy
Better yet, crazy, guns in the air

Guns in the air, guns in the air
Can't hear this again when you come around here
We got our guns, got our guns
We got our guns, got our guns
We got our guns in the motherfucking air, oh

I'm down for life
Gangster for life
I'm down for life
Gangster for life

You know I'm down, down for life
Load and reload it, let's go
Gangster for life
Til the day that I die

I promise I'm standing by
Cause you know that I'm down
You know I'm down
Gangster for life

I lick the gun when I'm done
Cause I know that revenge is sweet


COLD CASE LOVE

On my roof
Dark, and I'm burning a rose
I don't need proof
I'm torn apart and you know

What you did to me was a crime
Cold Case Love
And I let you reach me one more time
But that's enough

Your love was breaking the law
But I needed a witness
So wake me up when it's over
It don't make any difference
Will it ever be solved or am I taking the fall?
The truth was there all along
Tell me how did we miss it?

We opened up a cold case love
And it got the best of us
And now prints, pictures and white outlines
Are all that's left at the scene of a crime
A cold case love

Should have investigated
But love blinded eyes couldn't see no
And then I tried to cage it
But your love ain't the kind you can keep
Release me now cause I've did my time
Of this cold case love
My heart's no longer cold and you gonna find
I've had enough

Your love was breaking the law
But I needed a witness
So wake me up when it's over
It don't make any difference
Will it ever be solved or am I taking the fall?
Truth was there all along
Tell me how did we miss it

We opened up a cold case love
And it got the best of us
And now prints, pictures and white outlines
Are all that's left at the scene of the crime
Of a cold case love

We lost our way
Took this too far
Now I'll never find the pieces of my heart
We've lost enough
Looking for a truth
That was here all along

Cold case love
And it got the best of us
And now prints, pictures and white outlines
Are all that's left at the scene of the crime
Of a cold case love

We opened up a cold case love
And it got the best of us
And now prints, pictures and white outlines
Are all that's left at the scene of the crime
Of a cold case love