This is Rihanna at her riffing-est, her most dance hall. Riri’s voice spills like a drink over a beat that sounds like a music box in a microwave (the song is coproduced by Kanye). The song is a strip-club anthem aimed at strippers (rather than customers), a “ladies is pimps too” call to arms, a financial dominatrix hymn with a knucking undertow of sinisterness that makes it impossible not to bob your head to it.Ī post shared by badgalriri on at 2:56pm PDT Having just proved, with “FourFiveSeconds” and the Home soundtrack, that she could sell songs with her heart and voice, “Bitch Better Have My Money” is a reminder that Rihanna is not planning to be family friendly anytime soon. She called it “soulful” and said the album will sound “timeless.” Fans read that as a worrying sign that there would be no dance anthems from Rihanna this time around, that Riri had gone … folk rock?īut on Wednesday night, Rih posted single art: an image that has Braille along the left side and a simple black-and-white Inez-and-Vinoodh portrait shot of Rih, with heavily filled eyebrows and wearing a leather jacket, looking like Jody Watley in the video for “ Real Love.” The picture is both classy (black-and-white photography!) and trashy (nothing under the leather jacket!) in a way that exemplifies the multitudes within Rihanna. Rihanna herself had given hints that the album was going to be a departure from her previous fare, focusing more on her voice. The release of “FourFiveSeconds,” the first single from R8, Rihanna’s still untitled eighth album, on January 24, didn’t go as smoothly as planned. It was unclear if it was even a proper album-related Rihanna single, because it sounded like an “Islands in the Stream” duet with Kanye West.
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