Lesson #4: OMGee Rihanna is smiling again!

It has been a long and dark time coming, but Rihanna is finally back on the music scene and actually looks like she’s enjoying her profession! With her new firecracker red and mangled wig, she is making a quick and colorful come back. After her infamous violent encounter in February 2008 with singer and ex boyfriend Chris Brown, who is also redeeming his name after his gloomy yet compelling Michael Jackson performance at the BET Awards, she decided to take her famous edgy “Rihanna cut” even shorter and rock a DGFU attitude… and it worked! Her last album “Rated R” debuted at #4 on the US Billboard 200 charts and featured hit singles like Hard, Rockstar 101, and my personal favorite Rude Boy.

Her new album LOUD is set to release November 12, 2010 and a few singles and videos have already become quite popular with the kids. The “club banger” Only Girl has been doing well on the airwaves and she just released another single What’s My Name feat. Drake; and I LOVE this song. If you listen to the words and some of the lines (“the square root of 69 is ate something… right?”), it is a very provocative song, but the catchy tune covers up the risky lyric which makes it perfect for listening with Mom in the minivan! After Drake commences the song rapping about “weed and white wine”, Rihanna takes it over and murders it with her sweet sensual Barbadian accent. You’re reluctantly forced to snap your fingers and it even gives the dustiest chicken heads the desire to whip her hair back and forth.

RiRi already has me glued with her first two singles, and with the next single possibly being a song entitled S&M, I cannot wait to purchase my LOUD album at Target for $9.99. Though I am not a fan of her new “Pippy Longstalking meets Raggedy Ann” image and will miss all the fun my friends had with Disturbia, I do recognize and honor music artists that are able to switch it up. Go ahead RiRi! I wonder if she will ever get her new misspelled French neck tat corrected…

PS while we’re on the topic of corrections, her name is supposed to be pronounced [ree-YAH-na]. Why has she not addressed this after all these years? Food for thought.