"role model" are you people going crazy around here?? First Lady Gaga now Rihanna...

Rihanna is not fearless and I hope to God she is not anyone's "role model"...she was just quoted as saying "the more in love we became, the more dangerous we became for each other"....only a really stupid person would say that. No one in their right mind in 2009 (esp not a famous person) is making excuses for getting beat up....

Rihanna is luckier than a Lotto winner to be where she is - she cannot sing, nor dance, she is not pretty, comes off incredibly smug, I mean truly luckier than a $100 million lottery winner. How such massive popularity happened to her is really evidence to the shallowness of the record industry and the lack of willpower among the record buying public to ask for anything more than the lowest common denominator. She looks like a w***re in all her photographs and videos...she is truly vile.

Please Salon, I love you, stop giving bandwidth to these Interscope Records factory assemblages (Rihanna, Lady Gaga, etc). You are only encouraging bad, meaningless music and taking publicity away from truly talented artists whose voices are not being heard.

I was worried that you had surrendered your turf to Ms. Williams, but your came through like a champ.

So, how much does it pay to shill for sucky commercial corporate music product with bad role models for America's young women?

BOOBIES!

BARBED WIRE!

AND THOU!

Nothing hotter than a babe with her BOOBIES wrapped in Barbed Wire.

Look, but do not TOUCH!

I was worried that you had surrendered your turf to Ms. Williams, but you came through like a champ.

So, how much does it pay to shill for sucky commercial corporate music product with bad role models for America's young women?

BOOBIES!

BARBED WIRE!

AND THOU!

Nothing hotter than a babe with her BOOBIES wrapped in Barbed Wire.

Look, but do not TOUCH!

You're wrong. Rihanna is beautiful. All the rest you mentioned was pretty much dead on. God, this girl can't sing for beans. She really sucks.

So, wait, fearless means going back to the man who hits you? And letting someone else write a song about it? That ends in a gunshot????

It's too late to dress up like a superhero, Rihanna, you wimped out and did the dumbest thing possible. You are a terrible role model. No amount of makeup and leather can change that.

And yeah, no actual talent to be found here.

...than appears at first glance:

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=175

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=604

So she seems all nice in the interview and sooo tough in the video? Could it be that she's....ACTING?

I'll definitely side with the "she's REALLY beautiful" camp.

And I heartily wish people would get over the so-and-so can't sing perfectly shtick. Her voice suits the character she plays. It's AutoTuned into a kind of artificiality, but she'd made-up and coutured to the same level. Get over it. She's the best part of Run This Town.

Finally, for Role Models, if you're reduced to modeling yourself on celebrities, you should take it as a sign that you need to meet more real people. I'll bet there's even some near where you live right now!

some cool shit...

Really liked how the video was shot...can't say I care for the song too much.

Couldn't help but think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz-DJgxUeB8

I'm sorry, but I'm not scared by that video at all. A starlet traipsing around in stylized getups and an eyepatch isn't scary. You must have a very low threshold for such things; it doesn't hold a candle to the sort of video work Madonna was doing decades ago. And let's be honest, Rihanna has had some great pop singles, but these two new songs are extremely dull.

Or some kind of award for that massive forehead.

but I heard "Russian Roulette" the other day and it made my hair stand on end. It stopped me in my tracks as I was puttering around my house, knowing who was singing those words and that she had been attacked by someone she loved in a place she couldn't escape easily (a moving car?). Its a terrifying song.

Seriously? Rhianna as a role model for young women? She has model good looks and that's as far as I'll compliment her. She is using her beating in order to sell records, period. Her attack happened in Feb and now all of a sudden she wants to speak out and "help women"? Please. And there's nothing to admire about having pictures of your ass and tits on the internet or dressing up as a slutty tiger for Halloween. Isn't this supposed to be a feminist blog? I expect all the gossip sites to fall for this obvious trick, but not you Broadsheet.

she had the courage to sing a full stanza without autotune.

wholesale role model.

This article makes me glad I don't pay attention to popular music anymore. It's there, but it's in one ear . . .

Rihanna's a singer, right?

Broadsheet is calling her a role model, not me. But I guess if you don't read any closer than you listen to music, Rihanna must be tops!

Seriously... this could come straight out of any fan mag, or Tiger Beat.

Her new album is going to be called Rated R? This is the last straw. It's bad enough she makes money singing when she's a really poor singer; it's bad enough people think lyrics that SHE DIDN'T WRITE somehow describe her deepest darkest hopes and fears or whatever. But now she's going to steal the title of one of the best albums of the last 10 years, so that everytime I try to reference the Queens of the Stone Age album in casual conversation, people are going to think I'm talking about Rihanna? This aggression will not stand.

THIS AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND.