With her thin and automated, nasally little voice, Rihanna is certainly no Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner or Patty LaBelle.
NYTimes
Still, according to the New York Times “Last month she became the fastest solo artist in history to have had 20 Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, slower only than the Beatles.”
Wow. Her latest hit is called "Cockiness (I love it.)"
“Suck my cockiness, lick my persuasion,
eat my poison and swallow your pride down...
I love it I love it I love it when you eat it.”
um. Catchy, huh?
You can hear the whole thing here.
But just FYI, there is a long history of saucy American song writing, from Margaret Carter’s “I want plenty of grease in my frying pan” to “If it don’t fit don’t force it” by Lil Johnson (lol @ Lil Johnson) and BarrelHouse Annie.
One of my favorites is Nina Simone.
lyricspond.com
She wants a little sugar in her bowl.
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