Rihanna's new album 'Rated R' for revenge

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

"These are tricky days for hip-hop queen Rihanna. At the same time she's working the talk-show circus, poignantly revealing the human complexities of domestic abuse, she's pushing a sexed-out album that often plays like a delicious, albeit shocking, revenge fantasy. She calls it Rated R, presumably because NC-17 just didn't have that same snap. Do as she says, boys and girls, not as she sings..." READ THE REVIEW OF 'RATED R,' OUT NOV. 23

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