Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad

Rihanna's highly anticipated Good Girl Gone Bad is in stores today! The album features Jay-Z on her hit single "Umbrella" and Ne-Yo on another hit "Hate That I Love You."

Rihanna on being a "bad" girl: I got all painted in silver, almost butt naked (she whispers). That was one of the scenes in the video. I felt liberated. I felt free and I felt like I was a "good girl gone bad." It was a pretty cool thing to do. I never thought that in a million years I would paint myself up to my nostrils in silver and do a video. It was fantastic. It was one of my favorite scenes in the entire video."


:: Rihanna - Umbrella featuring Jay-Z - WATCH THE VIDEO ::

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Rihanna's third album release in less than two years, GOOD GIRL GONE BAD is the follow-up to 2006's RIAA platinum A Girl Like Me, with the back-to-back #1 hits, "S.O.S." and "Unfaithful"; and her RIAA gold debut from 2005, Music Of the Sun, featuring the worldwide smash, "Pon De Replay." GOOD GIRL GONE BAD boasts the production skills of Timabland, C. "Tricky" Stewart, Stargate, and the team of Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken (responsible for "S.O.S." and "Pon De Replay"), as well as songwriting contributions from Justin Timberlake and Ne-Yo, among others.

In June, 19-year old Barbados native Rihanna will be seen in her first ads as the newest CoverGirl, joining the ranks of Queen Latifah, Molly Sims, Christie Brinkley and Keri Russell. The long list of famous CoverGirl models (starting in 1961) also includes Cheryl Tiegs, Rachel Hunter, Tyra Banks, and Niki Taylor.

Personally signed by Def Jam president and CEO Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Rihanna is a unique role model for West Indians back home and around the world. She created The Rihanna Foundation, a public charity organization dedicated to assisting terminally ill children world­wide. Its mission is to assist and inspire children who suffer from life-threatening diseases including cancer, leukemia and AIDS. The Foundation raises funds and awareness for medical research, as well as for individual and institutional medical needs. The vision of the Foundation is to achieve what Rihanna has always strived for in her remarkable music career - "to inspire with hope, courage and love."

Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad TRACKLIST:

Umbrella feat. JAY-Z
Push Up On Me
Don't Stop The Music
Breakin' Dishes
Shut Up and Drive
Hate That I Love You feat. Ne-Yo
Say It
Sell Me Candy
Lemme Get That
Rehab
Question Existing
Good Girl Gone Bad

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Rihanna: The girl's gone bad
By CHRISTOPHER WRAY - More by this author » Last updated at 17:42pm on 26th May 2007 
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How do you go from watching cricket at Barbados's Kensington Oval one day, to America's No 1 female artist the next? If you're Rihanna, you get invited to a millionaire mogul's Sandy Lane suite and perform in front of Jay-Z 

Pop sensation Rihanna is already 90 minutes late for our interview. 
I wonder whether this means success has gone to her head and she’s turned into the latest in a long line of insufferable divas. 
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Perhaps she’s done a Jennifer Lopez and thrown a hissy fit because her assistant has stirred her coffee the wrong way. 
Or, like Mariah Carey, she’s decided that she doesn’t ‘do stairs’ and is waiting to be carried up three flights on a golden throne. 
 
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Not quite: when finally she bursts into the London hotel suite, she is not remotely diva-like. 
Her 5ft 9in frame is squeezed into a perilously short black dress with high neck and puffy sleeves. 
But when she apologises for her unpunctuality, the excuse is thin: she was having her hair done. 
Fizzing with the kind of energy you’d naturally expect from the talent behind hit singles like Pon De Replay, S.O.S. and Unfaithful, she fixes me with an odd look and launches into a speech about the wonders of British men. 
"The men over here are so charming," she says with more than a little twinkle in her apple-green eyes. "I’m drawn to tall men with a quirky sense of humour and a touch of the bad boy about them. 
"I’ve met loads of men like that in Britain. British men tend to be very forward, too, and I find that very attractive." 
She gives me a saucy Babs Windsor wink – and then suddenly deflates. 
"But then I visited Dublin recently and didn’t get chatted up once! That was so disappointing. Not that there’s much I could have done about it. I’m so busy that I’ve got no time for a boyfriend right now." 
She hasn’t because she is the embodiment of overnight fame. 
At 16, she won her Barbados high school’s beauty pageant and was mulling over modelling work. 
At a cocktail party at the island’s absurdly posh Sandy Lane hotel, home-from-home of Simon Cowell, Philip Green et al, she met a man called Evan Rogers who invited her back to his room. Extraordinarily, it really was purely professional: he was a New York producer who was holidaying at the hotel. 
Rihanna belted out an informal audition in Rogers’s 900-square-foot hotel room. 
He asked her to cut a demo tape. The recording found its way to hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, who summoned her to New York for an audition. 
Rihanna thought she was in a dream. 
"The only previous time I’d sung in public was at a school concert," she says. "So I was pretty scared. 
"But I just pretended that being in Jay-Z’s office with him and five record company executives was an everyday event for me. 
"Jay-Z was sitting there in his denim shorts and polo shirt, waiting to be impressed. 
"I was worried about my voice because my throat was dry and I’d been up all night thinking about the audition. 
"Then after I started he kept stopping me to ask me to sing in different styles. But I knew it was going to be OK the moment Jay-Z smiled while I was singing." 
As it turned out, it was more than OK – Rihanna and her advisors were kept in the room until 3am until a contract was signed. 
"My lawyers kept talking while I kept looking at the clock thinking, “Just get on with it, I want to sign!”" 
From there, everything fell magically into place. Her debut single, the infectious Pon De Replay, became the summer smash of 2005. 
"I was in a shopping centre when I heard it for the first time on the radio. 
"I was running up and down screaming, ‘That’s my song!" and everyone was looking at me like I was completely nuts, naturally enough. 
It was a strange time for me because everyone was telling me that I was the new Beyoncé. 
I was just 17 and having private tuition to make up for not being at school." 
Her debut album, Music Of The Sun, went on to sell more than two million copies. 
Her second album, 2006’s A Girl Like Me, did similar business and spawned further hit singles including We Ride. 
Rihanna’s appeal seems to be universal; her CDs are bought by dads, mums and teenagers. 
Celebrity fans include the Beckhams, Elton John, Wayne Rooney, Naomi Campbell and Beyoncé. 
And she’s racked up a number of awards, including four honours at last year’s Billboard Music Awards, including Female Artist Of The Year. 
Great things are expected for her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad, due for release on June 4. 
But if she feels any pressure, she’s not showing it. Nor does she feel that success and fame have changed her in any way. 
"I’m still the same as I ever was,’ she says. "The biggest difference that success has brought is that I can now afford to buy as many shoes as I want. 
"I must have 200 pairs. But as any woman knows, you can never have too many shoes…" 
Staring thoughtfully out of the window, she says, "But I want to tell you what I love so much about your country. The sport. 
"I’m a big follower of English cricket. Flintoff’s the man, right? I just adore the atmosphere you get at a big cricket match. 
"Being in the stands is like being at a great party. You’ve got all that drinking and dancing and a game to watch in the background. Perfect." 
I’m about to suggest that the Edrich stand at Lord’s is a far cry from curried goat and Red Stripe at Barbados’s Kensington Oval, when she adds: 
"I’m also into football in a big way. Manchester United are my team. Those guys are so talented and crazy." 
It’s fair to assume that Rihanna would like to have more time right now to be a little crazy; after all, her latest album sees her leave behind the girlish demureness of old. 
As evidenced by her video for No 1 hit Umbrella, which features her writhing about in a black leather all-in-one outfit, the Barbados girl is now a grown-up 19 and more than ready to "sex things up". 
"I feel I’ve grown five years in the past 12 months," she says. 
"I want to show people that I’m a woman now. My new songs are edgier and sexier. 
"It feels right to be more like that now. I might still be a teenager but the music industry forces you to grow up fast. 
"I’m grateful for that. I’ve always been incredibly self-confident, but that confidence is mixed in with a real sense of maturity now and that makes me stronger." 
She puts her confidence down to her upbringing. Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty to a Barbadian father and Guyanese mother in 1988, she was encouraged to think for herself from an early age. 
"I was always mature for my age and ambitious to succeed." 
When she was nine, her parents divorced. "I had to get on with things. With my mother at work, I had to take care of my three brothers." 
She "lived like a tomboy", upsetting the neighbours with her constant singing and by 14 was going out to nightclubs and getting involved with boys – experience that led to her 2006 single, Unfaithful, about her own infidelity. 
"It wasn’t a serious relationship, but I hid my infidelity for a long time," she says. 
"It got to the point where I knew he knew so I had to tell him. 
"I needed to get it out because I didn’t want to be in the relationship any more. I hated cheating so it was a relief to admit it." 
Before she leaves she decides I must see her collection of tattoos: for the record, she has a Pisces sign behind one ear, a star on her neck and a set of musical notes on her ankle. 
Then she strides out with the determination of a woman set to conquer the world all over again. 
, Good Girl Gone Bad (hitting stores June 5), but first read these five questions she answered just for you! 
 
 
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Check out her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (hitting stores June 5), but first read these five questions she answered just for you!
 
 
HOW DIFFERENT IS THIS ALBUM FROM YOUR FIRST TWO?
 
It is very different than what's expected of me. It's a lot edgier. The sound is very unique. There's not really an overall theme, because each song has a different feel and a different message. I'm even going to have a different image, but I can't talk about that yet. You'll see!
 
 
 
YOU'VE WORKED WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT ARTISTS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS. WHICH COLLABORATION ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?
 
Sean Paul, "Break It Off," because we did it all on our own. No one knew that it was happening &mdash he just flew me out to Jamaica and we went in the studio and started working. It was the first song that I wrote with just one other artist, and I am very proud of that.
 
 
 
WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING WITH SEAN PAUL?
 
Well, we have similar personalities and we are both from the Caribbean, so we understand each other's culture and get along really well. He is a great person &mdash I love his attitude. We both like joking around and having fun, but when it's time to get serious, we get serious. 
 
 
 
WITH APPEARANCES ON ALL MY CHILDREN AND LAS VEGAS, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE GOING IN THE DIRECTION OF ACTING. IS THERE ANY TYPE OF ROLE YOU WOULD LOVE TO PLAY?
 I would love to be in an action movie! I used to be a tomboy, so when I watch movies like "The Matrix," it makes me want to play one of those parts. I think it would be so cool!
 
 
 
SO WHAT'S YOUR HIDDEN TALENT? I can cook, because I had to growing up. My mom is from Guyana and is a very good cook. I used to always be in the kitchen helping her out. She cooks the best spicy curry chicken. I love spicy food!