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+ Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/WhitneyHouston, Music/MariahCarey, Music/BobMarley, Music/JanetJackson, Music/{{Beyonce}}, Music/DestinysChild, Music/{{Aaliyah}}, Music/FefeDobson, Creator/GraceJones, Music/LilKim, Music/{{Brandy}}
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+ Music/JustinBieber, {{Music/Lorde}}, Music/BillieEilish, Music/DemiLovato, {{Music/Grimes}}, Music/EllieGoulding, Music/FifthHarmony, Music/CamilaCabello, {{Music/SZA}}, Music/KimPetras
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->''"When the sun shines we'll shine together\\
Told you I'll be here forever\\
Said I'll always be a friend\\
Took an oath I'ma stick it out till the end\\
Now that it's raining more than ever\\
Know that we'll still have each other\\
You can stand under my umbrella."''
-->-- "Umbrella"

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) is a singer, actress and businesswoman who hails from Saint Michael, UsefulNotes/{{Barbados}}, although her mother was from UsefulNotes/{{Guyana}}.

Discovered by {{record producer}} Evan Rogers, and later Music/JayZ, she gained her first recognition in the music industry via her first single, "Pon de Replay". She signed with Def Jam in 2005 and gained further fame through her first two albums, solidifying her status with the breakout success of her third album, ''Good Girl Gone Bad''. Containing smash hit singles such as "Shut Up and Drive", "Don't Stop the Music", and "Umbrella" (done in collaboration with Jay-Z), the lattermost topping the charts and winning her her first UsefulNotes/GrammyAward, the album catapulted Rihanna to mainstream fame.

While Rihanna's earlier music exhibited her Caribbean roots, incorporating dancehall and reggae music, her later work would take influence from a wider range of genres including {{pop}}, dance, RAndB, [[HipHop hip-hop]] and [[ElectronicDanceMusic EDM]]. Among the variety of motives for her shifts in sound, one direct instance occurred following a dark chapter in her life, when she was physically assaulted by her then-boyfriend, Music/ChrisBrown, in February 2009. The assault directly inspired her next album, ''[[Music/RatedRRihannaAlbum Rated R]]'', and motivated its [[DarkerAndEdgier darker tone]] in comparison to her once upbeat and pop-laden image.

Rihanna has sold over 250 million records worldwide, making her one of the highest-selling female artists in history. She also released an astounding seven albums in ''twelve years'', leaving her in the public eye at all times in some form thanks to annual releases from 2005 to 2012.

In the 2010s, Rihanna branched out into business endeavors under the brand Fenty. These include a cosmetics line (Fenty Beauty), an underwear line (Savage x Fenty), and a fashion line (Fenty).

In May 2022, she gave birth to her first child, a boy, with her partner, rapper Music/ASAPRocky. She confirmed her second pregnancy in February 2023 while performing at the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl LVII halftime show, and gave birth to a second boy later that August.

!! Discography:
* ''Music of the Sun'' (2005)
* ''A Girl Like Me'' (2006)
* ''[[HotterAndSexier Good Girl Gone Bad]]'' (2007)
** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Music/RatedRRihannaAlbum Rated R]]'' (2009)
* ''[[LighterAndSofter Loud]]'' (2010)
* ''[[AlliterativeTitle Talk That Talk]]'' (2011)
* ''Unapologetic'' (2012)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Home|2015}} (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'' (2015) [[labelnote:note]]a concept album created by Rihanna with the director of the movie; she sings three of the album's eight songs.[[/labelnote]]
* ''ANTI'' (2016)

!! Filmography:
* ''Film/BringItOn: All Or Nothing'' (2006) {{as herself}}
* ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' (2012) as Petty Officer ([=GM2=]) Cora Raikes
* ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'' (2013) [[AdamWesting as herself]]
* ''Film/Annie2014'' as Moon Goddess in ''[[ShowWithinAShow Moonquake Lake]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'' as Gratuity "Tip" Tucci (voice)
* ''Series/BatesMotel'' (2017) as Marion Crane
* ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets'' (2017) as Bubble
* ''Film/OceansEight'' (2018) as Nine Ball

!! Selected videography:
* "Music/WeFoundLove" (2011)

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!! "Good Tropes Gone Bad":

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Throughout her tune "Umbrella," Rihanna puts the accent on the third syllable ("um-brell-LA").
* ActorSharedBackground: Tip from ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'' is an immigrant and is half Barbadian, just like Rihanna (half Afro-Guyanese, half Barbadian).
* AlbumIntroTrack: ''Rated R'' starts with "Mad House", which incorporates a Creator/VincentPrice-like speech "warning" uneasy listeners and inviting those "who can take it".
* AlliterativeTitle: ''Talk That Talk'' and ''Rated R''.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: A variation in "Rude Boy," where she challenges the "bad boy" to put his money where his mouth is.
* AlternateMusicVideo: The video for "Work" featuring Music/{{Drake}} was released on Youtube as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL1UzIK-flA a double feature]]. The first version directed by Director X shows both Rihanna and Drake singing, dancing, and partying at a raucous Jamaican bar. The second directed by Tim Eren shows the two in a neon pink, blue, and white colored room alone, singing and dancing for each other.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: On her episode of the Fuse TV series ''Loaded'', the host is talking about the different personae she portrayed in her videos, including a soldier[[note]]"Hard"[[/note]], a rock star[[note]]"Rockstar 101"[[/note]], a murderer[[note]]"Man Down"[[/note]] "and a car mechanic, just to name a few."[[note]]"Shut Up and Drive."[[/note]]Justified, since it was setting up the video for "Stay," where she is herself.
* AuthorAppeal: Starting from "Disturbia", she seems to have a thing for BDSM and being dominating and it became part of her image. She's actually [[http://blogs.menshealth.com/mh-feminist/pain-pleasure-and-feminism/2011/04/11/ either a switch or a sub.]]
* AutoTune: Uses this in a few songs, notably "Disturbia" and her T.I. collaboration "Live Your Life". Justified in these two; in "Disturbia" it is used to create distortion to aid the dark atmosphere and vibe of the song, and in "Live Your Life" it's used only on the chorus, and there's a slight surprise when it's not used on her verse.
%%* AxCrazy: The video for "Bitch Better Have My Money". Let's just say that if you don't, [[ColdBloodedTorture the consequences are worse]].
* BathtubScene: The music video for "Stay" has Rihanna lounging in a bathtub for the entire song. It's supposed to be a [[ShowerOfAngst bath of angst]], but the MaleGaze camera shots make it clear it's also for {{Fanservice}}, although she's only ever seen from [[ShouldersUpNudity the shoulders up]], with ToplessnessFromTheBack or with her curled legs providing SceneryCensor.
* UsefulNotes/BellyDancing: Rihanna incorporates a few belly-dancing moves, as well as her backup dancers, in a beach at night in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5MRBzY1uM If It's Lovin' That You Want]].
* BetterPartnerAssertion: "Sex with Me" has her bragging [[SexGoddess she's better at sex]] than the girlfriend of the person she's singing at.
-->''Sex with me is amazing, with her, it'll feel alright\\
The sex doesn't get any better, make it long, let it be all night''
* BillingDisplacement:
** The 2008 song "Live Your Life" was ''overwhelmingly'' seen as a Rihanna song in the eyes of most listeners, despite the fact that T.I. reached #1 with parent album ''Paper Trail'' and was coming off the success of "Whatever You Like."
** "Take Care" is the title track to Music/{{Drake}}'s second studio album and its biggest hit. It's better recognized as a Rihanna song.
%%* BoastfulRap: "Hard" and "Bitch Better Have My Money"
* {{Bowdlerize}}:
** In "Unfaithful", the line "I might as well take a gun and put it to his head, get it over with" has the word gun bleeped out.
** Amazon.com's downloadable version of ''Good Girl Gone Bad'' censors the word "ass" in "Breakin' Dishes."
* BreakUpBonfire: "Breakin' Dishes" has her singing about burning the clothes of her cheating lover.
-->''I'm roasting marshmallows on the fire\\
And what I'm burning is your attire''
* BrokenBird: ''Rated R'' and ''Talk That Talk'' show hidden issues and some of her workaholic choices show some kind of brokenness in her.
* BrokenRecord:
** "Numb", in terms of brokenness: "'Cause I'm going numb / I'm going numb / I'm going numb / I'm going numb..."
** "We found love in a hopeless place / We found love in a hopeless place / We found love in a hopeless place…"
** "[[Music/CalvinHarris This is What You Came For]]" also qualifies: "But she's looking at / You-ooh-ooh / You-ooh-ooh / You-ooh-ooh / You-ooh-ooh..."
** "You can stand under my umbrella-ella-ella / eh, eh, eh / under my umbrella-ella-ella / eh, eh, eh / under my umbrella-ella-ella / eh, eh, eh / under my umbrella-ella-ella / eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh..."
* CarSong: Ignoring all the implications in the lyrics, "Shut up and Drive" is this on the surface. It was even used during a driving scene in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''.
* CensorBox: The pages for "Hard" in the CD booklet for ''Rated R'' include a color picture of her nude and holding a big "CENSORED" sign in front of her.
* CensoredTitle: As a pathetic attempt at them trying to ThinkOfTheChildren, "S&M" was retitled "Come On" by [[MediaWatchdog BBC Radio]], in response to their ruling that the song could not be played on the air before 7 PM. The same edit of the song removed instances of the words "sex", "chains", and "whips", each with a SoundEffectBleep in the form of a vinyl scratch. As well, the eponymous "S S S & M M M" hook was removed altogether.
%%* ClusterFBomb:
%%** "Phresh Out the Runway".
%%** She's been liberally cursing since ''Rated R'', especially in her rap songs.
* DarkActionGirl: In "Bitch Better Have My Money". At one point she even throws her cellphone out the window and [[ImprobableAimingSkills shoots it perfectly]].
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Her entire career after Chris Brown assaulted her, starting with ''Rated R''. "Russian Roulette" is especially worth noting, as it is possibly her darkest song to date.
** ''Rated R'' and ''Talk That Talk'' are much darker then the albums which came before them. ''Good Girl Gone Bad'' is very dark compared to the albums before it.
** "Bitch Better Have My Money" is her darkest music video yet, with kidnapping a man's wife and humiliating her, torturing and murdering him, and Rihanna herself covered in blood. The video opens with a warning for language, nudity, and violence.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The video for "You da One", for the most part. Parts of "Diamonds" also.
* DestructiveRomance: Her hit with Music/{{Eminem}} "Love the Way You Lie". The relationship is "mutually destructive".
-->''Just gonna stand there and watch me burn?\\
Well, that's alright, because I like the way it hurts\\
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry?\\
Well, that's alright, because I love the way you lie''
* DisproportionateRetribution: In the "Bitch Better Have My Money" video, her credit was ruined by a {{Jerkass}} accountant and when he won't fix it, she kidnaps and humiliates his wife and when that tactic didn't work, she tortures and murders him ''Series/{{Dexter}}''-style.
* DragonLady: In the video for [[{{Music/Coldplay}} "Princess of China"]], Rihanna plays the eponymous princess of China, and she both dresses up and acts like the stereotype of a sexual and domineering powerful Asian woman, even spending most of the song as a RecliningReigner on throne room.
* DyeHard: Rihanna is naturally brown-haired, yet several of her videos and performances feature her with dyed hair, most often black or red.
* EmasculatedCuckold: "Unfaithful" is written from the perspective of a woman that's cheating, and feels guilty about it. She specifically sings about how the affair is hurting him because he knows she's happy with her lover.
* ExhortTheDiscJockeySong: "Pon de Replay," features one of the politest versions of the trope with the line, "Hey Mr. DJ, won't you turn the music up?"
* FakeOrgasm: In "Rude Boy", she pointedly tells her lover she's ''not'' going to fake an orgasm to stroke his ego if he [[LousyLoversAreLosers can't satisfy her]]
-->''Babe if I don't feel it I ain't faking no-no''
* FanDisservice: The "Bitch Better Have My Money" video gets a warning for, among other things, nudity. Said nudity takes place during and after ColdBloodedTorture.
* TheFashionista: She's become very well known in fashion circles for her cutting-edge sense of style and appreciation for couture. She has her own fashion and jewelry lines with Puma and Chopard and was once crowned "Fashion Icon of the Year" by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: In the music video "Shut Up and Drive", the first thing see Rihanna's character is her heeled feet as she steps out of her car.
* FlippingTheTable About 2:25 into the music video for "Hard", Rihanna flips the table during a card game.
* FriendshipSong "Umbrella" is about being there for your friends.
-->''When the sun shines, we'll shine together\\
Told you I'll be here forever\\
Said I'll always be your friend\\
Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end''
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Put her in the audience at a music function and watch her expressions.
** During the 2013 [=VMAs=], each time the camera cut to her in the audience, she just stared off into space with an unimpressed look on her face, despite all the excitement around her.
** At the 2017 Grammys, she spent the show taking swigs out of a sparkly flask and making faces. During Music/ATribeCalledQuest's performance, one of the camera feeds caught her gleefully pulling out her phone and [=FaceTiming=] one of her friends with the phone aimed at the stage.
* GenreRoulette: She is supposedly a RAndB singer but has done everything from electronic (including techno, house, EDM, trap, and dubstep), reggae, folk, dance-pop, new wave, hip-hop, synthpop, latin music...
* GoodBadGirl: Part of her image, to the point she has an album called ''Good Girl Gone Bad''. The TitleTrack describes a woman who tries to be a good and loyal girlfriend to her partner, but eventually gets sick of it after he cheats on her one time too many (in addition to being emotionally neglectful and controlling), giving him a taste of his own medicine. See also her song "S&M": "I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it!"
* HellBentForLeather: ''Talk That Talk'' and ''Rated R'''s artwork theme. "S&M" discusses it. It has generally been played with since 2007.
* HotterAndSexier:
** Starting with ''Good Girl Gone Bad'' and, apparently, [[http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2011-11-09/album-preview-rihannas-talk-that-talk-is-the-dirtiest-pop-record-since-madonnas-erotica/ especially the case]] for ''Talk That Talk'', which Creator/VH1 called "the dirtiest pop record since Music/{{Madonna}}'s ''Music/{{Erotica}}''.
** Cockiness (Love It) definitely proves this:
-->''Suck my cockiness\\
Lick my persuasion\\
Eat my words and then\\
Swallow your pride down, down''
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: "Shut Up And Drive" is basically a massive amalgam of sexual innuendos spun into the language of cars and driving.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Her song "Te Amo" tells the story of a straight girl being romantically pursued by a lesbian, who in love with her but the straight girl doesn't return her affection and tries to let her down gently.
* TheIlluminati: Much like Music/LadyGaga, she now uses a lot of Masonic and Illuminati symbolism in her videos.
* IntercourseWithYou: Many songs from ''Good Girl Gone Bad'' and beyond. Special mentions go to "Rude Boy", "Only Girl (In The World)", "Skin", "S&M", "Birthday Cake", and "Cockiness".
* TheLadette: "[=G4L=]" (which stands for Gangsta For Life) shows off her gangsta side.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: "Shut Up And Drive" acknowledges some of it's DoubleEntendre.
--> ''Got you where you wanna go, if you know what I mean\\
Got a ride that's smoother than a limousine''
* LastNoteNightmare: A gunshot is heard at the end of "Russian Roulette".
* LighterAndSofter: ''Loud'' has more upbeat songs than ''Rated R'' and her role in ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'', an energetic, brightly-coloured children's movie
* LipstickLesbian: Both Rihanna and collaborater Shakira's characters are this, both being very feminine lovers in "Can't Remember To Forget You".
%%* LoveIsADrug: Presented in "Drunk On Love".
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: A theme in ''Good Girl Gone Bad'', ''Rated R'', and ''Talk That Talk'', but especially on "Fire Bomb", "Rehab", "There's A Thug In My Life", "Stupid In Love", and "Good Girl Gone Bad."
%%* LoveNostalgiaSong: "A Million Miles Away", "California King Bed" and "P.S. (I'm Still Not Over You)".
* LyricalDissonance: "Where Have You Been" is rather dark musically for a song about finding someone extremely special out of nowhere.
* LyricalShoehorn:
** In "Umbrella" there's a lyric that goes "When the war has took its part..." Irritating, but "taken its part" wouldn't scan.
** In the chorus of "Disturbia," she informs us that the titular state of mind "ain't used to what you like." That should probably be the other way around, in order to make any sense at all.
* MakingASplash: In her music video for "Umbrella", she's shown manipulating water thrown her way.
* MarionetteMotion: The "Disturbia" music video has Rihanna and the background character move in a creepy puppet-like manner, to add to the creepiness and surreal factor of the video.
* MeaningfulName: "Unapologetic", in light of the backlash of her personal life, namely her reconciliation with Chris Brown.
%%* MoneySong: "Pour It Up" and "Bitch Better Have My Money".
* MoodWhiplash: On the album ''Loud'', the tracklisting seems to be randomized. Point being that the slow, sad "Fading" is inbetween the upbeat "Cheers (Drink to That)" and "Only Girl (In the World)".
** In "Unapologetic", the sharp contrast between "Right Now" and "What Now", despite having similar titles.
* MsFanservice: Rihanna is an attractive woman who is famous for her sexy and fashionable clothing (once she was crowned the "Fashion Icon of the Year"). Starting from "Disturbia", many of her songs tend to portray her as a {{Dominatrix}} and she tends to wear revealing or fetishistic outfits in her videos and performances, with many of her songs featuring MaleGaze shots and ThreeMinutesOfWrithing.
* TheMuse: Is one to Music/{{Drake}}, who wrote several songs ("Firework", "Take Care" and possibly "Made Man") based on their relationship and frequently collaborate with her.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: "Man Down" is about shooting someone to death in the heat of the moment and being horrified afterwards.
%%* NippleAndDimed: In "Love The Way You Lie Part II".
* NonAppearingTitle: [=G4L=]. However, the phrase 'Gangsta For Life' does appear.
* ObligatoryBondageSong:
** "S&M" and its remix featuring Music/BritneySpears.
** In "Cockiness (Love It)", she calls herself a "dominatrix".
* ObsessionSong: "Rehab", "Roc Me Out", "Fire Bomb", and "Drunk On Love".
* OncePerEpisode: Even when she moved on from reggae pop, Rihanna's album had at least one song in the same vein. "Man Down", "You da One", and "No Love Allowed".
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Suffers from this a bit as Raikes ''Film/{{Battleship}}''. It's odd, as there's no particular reason for her character to need a standard American accent in the first place.
* PimpedOutDress: [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/thr_style_news_image/2015/05/Rihanna.jpg The 2015 Met Ball gown]]. The designer's previous big commission? The motherfucking ''Olympics''.
%%* ThePowerOfFriendship: "Umbrella".
* PowerTrio: In "Run This Town" she is TheSpock to Music/JayZ's [[TheKirk Kirk]] and Music/KanyeWest's [[{{TheMcCoy}} McCoy]].
* RearrangeTheSong: As mentioned above, the interlude version of "Birthday Cake" is about female sexual empowerment and wanting to be pleased. The version with Music/ChrisBrown on it is about rough aggressive thankless make up sex after apparently a long time not being together.
* RevengeByProxy: The video for "Bitch Better Have My Money" has Rihanna's character kidnapping and torturing the {{Socialite}} wife of the accountant who left her bankrupt.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The whole idea behind "Bitch Better Have My Money"'s music video is Rihanna getting revenge on an accountant who left her bankrupt. So she enlists two minions to kidnap his wife and torments her until he pays up. When that failed, she tortures him ''Series/{{Dexter}}''-style. The video ends with Rihanna naked on a chest of money... and covered in blood.
%%* RockStarSong: "Rockstar 101".
* SanitySlippageSong:
** The lyrics to "Disturbia" are about how she's slowly losing her mind
-->''No more gas in the rig\\
Can't even get it started\\
Nothing heard, nothing said\\
Can't even speak about it\\
Out my life, out my head\\
Don't want to think about it\\
Feels like I'm going insane, yeah''
%%** A theme of ''Rated R'', for example "[=G4L=]" and "Russian Roulette".
** "Question Existing", "Roc Me Out", "Drunk On Love", "Man Down", and "Where Have You Been".
* SarcasmMode: Her chorus in Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Love The Way Lie"; in the music video, it's very clear that it is ''very'' sarcastic.
-->Just gonna stand there and watch me burn\\
[[VerbalIrony But that's alright because]] [[TooKinkyToTorture I like the way it hurts]]\\
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry\\
[[VerbalIrony But that's alright because I love the way you lie]]
* SequelSong: "Love the Way You Lie Pt. Two" to the original Music/{{Eminem}} track. "Numb" also alludes to the previous themes in Rihanna and Eminem's collaborations.
* SexGoddess: Several of her songs feature her boasting about her sexual prowess, such as "S&M" ('''Cause I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it''), "Rude Boy" (''Buckle up, I'ma give it to you stronger, hands up, we can go a little longer'') or "Sex with Me" (''Sex with me, so amazing'').
* SexySurfacingShot: The "Where Have You Been?" music video has her emerging from a lake in a [[BarelyThereSwimwear barely-there scale bikini]].
%%* SheIsAllGrownUp: Her image over the years.
* ShoppingCartAntics: The music video for "We Found Love" features Rihanna being pushed around in a shopping cart by her lover.
* ShoutOut:
** "Roc Me Out" is named in reference to Creator/RocNation, the company that manages her.
** "Umbrella" begins with Music/JayZ saying, punning off the weather theme, "Film/RainMan is back with Film/LittleMissSunshine"
** "Where Have You Been" references Music/JohnnyCash's "I've Been Everywhere."
%%* SillyLoveSongs: "Fire Bomb," "Umbrella," "Diamonds," "Where Have You Been"...
* SingerNamedrop: "Umbrella" featuring Music/JayZ:
-->''Jay'', Rain Man is back with little Ms. Sunshine.\\
''Rihanna'' where you at?
%%** Future in "Loveeeeeee Song".
* SnakesAreSexy: She did a [[{{Medusa}} [=Medusa=]]]-themed photoshoot for the December 2013 ''British [=GQ=]'' in which she was nude and dressed ''only'' in snakes.
* StepfordSmiler: The man described in "Unfaithful". Poor guy.
* TheStoner: She's very open about her marijuana habit, even seen lighting up joints in "Bitch Better Have My Money".
* {{Stripperific}}: Frequently dressed like this, specially in album\single art. Hell, she even plays an alien stripper in ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets''.
** The video for "Pour It Up" is ''set'' in a strip club.
%%* SubduedSection: "Roc Me Out".
* SupermodelStrut: She often confidently struts like a supermodel during her shows and presentations, and a few of her music videos, such as the beginning of "Shut Up and Drive" where she does a hip-swaying strut down the garage or in "Only If For a Night" which has her doing an exaggerated, purposeful strut in several fancy outfits for most of the video, at one point even doing it with a ClassyCane.
%%* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "We All Want Love" on ''Talk That Talk''.
* SurrealMusicVideo: "Diamonds", which is has plenty of unexplained imagery and symbolism throughout.
* TakeThat: Several ones to Music/ChrisBrown during "Man Down" (from ''Loud'') and the music video for "We Found Love" (from ''Talk That Talk''), which were released after the infamous domestic violence case he committed against her.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Rihanna presents a much more hopeful version with the first line of her chorus in 'The Monster'. But the second line may imply that she is crazy and simply imagining stuff.
-->I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.\\
Get along with the voices inside of my head.
* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: Most of her music videos are of her pretending to walk the catwalk in barely-there outfits.
%%** "Breakin' Dishes". If a guy did a song like that, he'd be scorned.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: "Umbrella" uses this as a metaphor, with her reassuring her friend that she has their back by claiming they can stand "under her umbrella".
-->''Now that it's raining more than ever,\\
Know that we'll still have each other.\\
You can stand under my umbrella.\\
You can stand under my umbrella.''
%%* TitleTrack: ''Good Girl Gone Bad'', ''A Girl Like Me'', ''Music Of The Sun'' and ''Talk That Talk''.
* TheUnintelligible: {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Work". Upon first listening, she appears to be slurring the lyrics, but upon closer inspection, she's actually singing in her home dialect of Bajan Creole.
* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: Contrary to popular belief, Music/{{Rihanna}} pronounces her name as "Ree-AN-na" not "Ree-AH-na".
%%* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Music/KatyPerry. They teased being more than that. By 2018, they were done, with Perry's feud with Music/TaylorSwift being a side-plot to her split with Rihanna.
* WhipOfDominance: "S&M", being an ObligatoryBondageSong, naturally has her singing about whips, singing about how they "excite her". The music video also has Rihanna wielding riding crops while acting domineering.
* AWildRapperAppears: {{Music/Drake}} shows up suddenly in both "What's My Name?" and "Work".
%%* WomanScorned: "Good Girl Gone Bad", "Breakin' Dishes", "Cold Case Love", and "Coulda Been The One".
* WrenchWench: The first part of the music video for "Shut Up and Drive" is basically girls walking around in skimpy clothes or red jumpsuits fixing cars.
%%* XtremeKoolLetterz: "Phresh Out the Runway".
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