She admits that once the physical
wounds from the assault went away, she wiped the episode clean off her memory bank. It is not something she wants to remember. So she says it was perfectly natural for her to go back to Chris. But she adds, “When I realized that my selfish reason for love could result in some young girl actually getting killed, I could not be easy with that part of being a role model. I couldn’t be held responsible for telling them to ‘go back’. I didn’t realize how much of an impact I had on the lives of young girls.” In her Paht Chee, her
partner pillar (the earthly branch of the Day Pillar) provides her with her creativity and influence.
It to be
expected then that she draws on her experiences in love for her material. Many of her hits revolve around the topic of domestic abuse, violence and relationship issues. She teamed up with Eminem to sing the chorus of his hit song “Love the Way You Lie”, about a destructive relationship that keeps going because you block out what you don’t want to see. Her hit “Stay” with Mikky Ekko is of more ballad tempo, telling of a relationship that both sides want, but which, for whatever reason, is impossible. Tis could be why she has not been in a serious relationship since Chris Brown. While she says she feels ashamed to have fallen in love with a person who could have done something so bad, she also says she feels responsible for him. “When I looked him in the eye when it happened, he was blank. It was as if there was no person there. He was blacked out – as if he had nothing to lose. But he had so much to lose.” After the incident, the reason
she went back was because she was afraid he would do something bad to himself. She still cares for him and says, “I don’t hate him. I will care about him until the day I die.” He was her first love, and because of him, she has been wary of every relationship
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she has been in since. Today she is dating 23 year old rapper Travis Scott, but while she remains tight- lipped about this romance, sources say she has been keeping things light because he reminds her too much of Chris Brown.
Rihanna is currently dating rapper Travis Scott but taking things slow because he reminds her too much of first love Chris Brown.
While Rihanna’s rise to success has been spectacular, her personal path has not been easy. Her father was an alcoholic, a crack cocaine user who physically abused her mother on a regular basis. Many times Rihanna had to stand in between them to break up a fight or to get their attention off of each other. While her mother was never hospitalized, one time her father did break her mother’s nose. Says Rihanna, “She didn’t go to hospital because when this kind of thing happens, you don’t want people to know.” Given her back story, it is
I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment. I’d feel the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end.
She perpetuates her bad girl image with her choice of material. “Bitch Better Have My Money” sees her kidnap a wealthy, white woman for ransom money, and when the husband won’t pay up, she and her girlfriends kidnap him too. Te song closes to a blood-covered Rihanna atop a trunk full of cash. Rihanna says this song is about female empowerment. Not sure about this kind of empowerment, but it does reflect the current generation and the mood overtaking society’s youth these days.
incredible where Rihanna is today. She sings of love that cannot be, of violence and crime, but she also sings of glory and dancing and triumph. Her new song “American Oxygen” pushes the idea of the American Dream, something she herself has achieved in a big way. Her role as the voice of Tip in the DreamWorks Animated movie HOME sprouted the song “Dancing in the Dark”, a feel- good song Rihanna describes as something she wants kids to love, to want to listen to over and over again. As year-end approaches, Rihanna is all set to make her second appearance at Victoria Secret’s Annual Fashion Show 2015, this year alongside Selena Gomez and Te Weekend. She has recently released the cover of her upcoming new album ANTI, which shows a picture of herself as a child with eyes obscured by a crown, with a poem written in Braille over the image. She says of the cover, “Tis is my favourite album cover of all those I’ve ever done. Sometimes the ones who have sight are the blindest.” Is she finally moving onto a brighter phase, one where happiness in her personal life matches the blazing career success she has enjoyed?
Te past decade has been a series
of unstoppable professional highs. Can she find personal happiness in 2016?
As a Dragon-born moving into a Monkey Year, looks possible indeed.
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