Changing image of Rihanna

This week Capital FM published the single and album covers of Rihanna and it was very evident that Rihanna's image has clearly changed.

Rihanna first came on the scene with Music of the Sun. She was a fresh young girl with the lovely bubbly typeface to go alongside. This image continued until Good Girl Gone Bad. The title of her album clearly shows that she had been portrayed as a 'good girl' in the media. However, that image was about to change and for the first time Rihanna achieved a UK Number 1 with the smash hit Umbrella. 

Through this stage of Rihanna is portrayed in a more sexual nature, but as a girl who is turned into a woman. This is a common transformation which was been seen by numerous artists from both genders (such as Britney Spears and Justin Bieber). This new sexier image is pretty constant until Rated R. It is at this album that Rihanna becomes a lot more edgy and symbolises Rihanna's change to a bad girl. The sexy image is pushed further with the racy single covers that contain scantly clad pictures of Rihanna.

This image of Rihanna is probably been consistent in the media until today. The album Loud actually focused on a more feminine image to go alongside her beautiful red hair. However, with singles such as S&M the bad girl image remained.

Rihanna recently released her latest album cover Unapologetic and it is clear that she is a bad girl for life and she is not going to apologise about it. Rihanna is a bad girl and proud!

S&M - Rihanna making her claim for the queen of pop?

Now I have always liked Rihanna don't get me wrong. She has come out with some great tunes over the years but she was never Beyonce or Lady Gaga. Other than Umbrella she hadn't had a big tune and since Umbrella resulted in the UK being drowned in rain all summer we shouldn't really mention it. 


Only a few months ago a music channel said she was one of the unluckiest women in pop. She had a string of Number 2s and just continually missed out on the top stop. Yet, who knew a few months later that would all change. Was it her Xfactor appearance? Was it the red hair? Was it a different musical feel? Was it clever videos? To be honest does it even matter?


Only girl in the world - What's my name - S&M. 3 big tunes, back to back. What's my name made her the first female artist ever to have a number 1 in five consecutive years. Now that's an achievement. 


I am sure S & M is going to be as big hit, already having had nearly 300,000 hits in less than two days. All I want to know is... when is Rihanna going to be in concert?