Rihanna - S&M

So far we've seen that Rihanna has had hugh success with her darker songs like "Disturbia" and "Rude Boy" and that the first two songs off of loud did pretty good; so chances are that "S&M" is going to be a big smash this year, and possibly one of Rihanna's bigger songs. In this song Rihanna really explores a new style for her, unlike her most recent songs, "S&M" is not smooth and bouncy but rough and edgy. With a throaty lusting sound, Rihanna does a great job at pulling off the sex-central theme of the song. Still there are some things that we're familiar with, like Rihanna's blaring vocals which she's famous for. Put this all together and you get something that is sure to be a hit.

Lyrically the song isn't all fun, like previous songs from Rihanna, this one is hard and ferocious. The lyrics are clear and to the point, but not too much that the song becomes bland and pointless. However, Rihanna seems to run out of ideas for what else she can say as the song gets really repitive once you get into it. There's only so many times you can hear, "Na na na na c'mon!" before you just get sick of it. This really is a tradegy as the song had so much potenial, yet will get boring extremely quickly.

My advice to Rihanna is that she needs to slow down and take time to make her songs. She's been pumping out music constantly, no doubt trying to make as many hits as she can. But I think that all of these quickly manifactured songs lack anything to make them special and interesting; if Rihanna actually took time to create the song personally for her then maybe she could really improve herself into something bigger. Still, "S&M" is great improvemet for Rihanna and something new from her; it has a lot of potential to be something big. The question now is will she be able to surpass Britney and Gaga for biggest song of the year?