Rihanna. (Mario Sorrenti/GQ)Don't expect Rihanna to be singing "Call Me Maybe" or "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" any time soon. The sexy star — who poses completely naked, save for a cropped leather jacket and strategically-placed hands on one of GQ's Men of the Year covers (the other two feature Channing Tatum and Ben Affleck) — gives a little insight into her brand new album, Unapologetic, and why her songs are not your grandmother's kind of music.
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"I want to make music that's hopeful, uplifting. Nothing corny or super sentimental," says Rihanna, who almost got a face tattoo the night before her photo shoot, but fortunately the artist refused. "I just want it to have the feeling that brings you out of whatever you're going through. I want it to spark that fire. I want it to be real, authentic, and raw."
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And the more X-rated, the better. During the interview, she begins singing "Foreplay" by The-Dream in front of the rapper-producer. "Bitch, f--k the foreplay/I want it now/We're talking straight sex/It's going down," she croons, as she gyrates against her hotel room bed. "You need to write me that s--t," Rihanna, 24, half-jokingly shouts at The-Dream. "No pop s--t. None of that lovey-dovey s--t … It's gotta be tweet, retweet, trending topic!"
And with a shirt on. (Mario Sorrenti/GQ)
There's certainly none of that lovey-dovey stuff between Rihanna and reported on-again boyfriend, Chris Brown. The "Don't Wake Me Up" singer collaborates with his maybe-girlfriend on a track called "Nobody's Business" that appears on Unapologetic — and it's as close to a love song as these two will probably get. A sample of the lyrics: "Every touch becomes infectious/Let's make out in this Lexus/There's no other love just like this/A life with you I want, then can we become lust persona."
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Although Rihanna doesn't talk about Brown during the interview with GQ, she did reveal what turns her on in a relationship. "I like to feel like a woman," she explains. "I have to be in control in every other aspect of my life, so I feel like in a relationship, like I wanted to be able to take a step back and have somebody else take the lead … Love makes you go places you probably wouldn't ever go, had it not been for love."
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It will be interesting to see where love takes Rihanna and Chris.
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