I'm So Hard...sure

So Hard

Rihanna’s Album ‘Rated R’ is very edgy compared to her previous ones. She has a new, funky hairdo, the cover looks dark and angry, and she looks like a girl you don’t want to mess with. But it seems to me that she’s trying almost too hard to seem like a strong, independent woman after the assault on her by her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.

With song titles like ‘Rude Boy’ and ‘Hard’ where she plays the dominant female role, it shows her being tough and aggressive, which she wasn’t in her previous relationship. It seems like a front. Perhaps for other pop/r&b artists this would be believable like for example Beyonce, Ciara, Lady Gaga, these women actually give off confidence and attitude without trying so hard, you can hear it in their voices even in interviews. With Rihanna it doesn’t seem that way. She’s rather soft spoken and, yes she was a victim in a serious beating, but I feel she milked it so so much. I wasn’t alive around the time when word of Tina Turner being beat by husband Ike got out, but she handled things differently and was a true “Hard” woman. She just divorced him, took his last name to perform with, and got rid of him. Now that’s a “badass” woman, Rihanna….not so much.

Opinions anyone? Is Rihanna really “so hard” as she says or is it a front or perhaps something else?