MUSIC NEWS: RIHANNA’S ‘RATED R’ ALBUM COVER + ALBUM NEWS

Rihanna’s official “Rated R” album cover has hit the net and features her posing with her hand over her eye, alone with a signature ‘R’ in the background. Check out the info:

The Rated R cover was shot by famed photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who says that “Rihanna was looking to create something a bit new for the look of the album.” Von Unwerth goes on to say that Rihanna is “so beautiful, sweet and tough at the same time — and a pleasure to shoot,” adding that she’s “fantastic to work with — very giving, very creative, very involved in every aspect of the shoot, and ready to push the boundaries.” (PopEater)

Rihanna’s new single, “Russian Roulette,” debuted last week and the video is expected to be released on November 6th. We also heard that “The Wait Is Ova” will be her 2nd official single..

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215 Responses to MUSIC NEWS: RIHANNA’S ‘RATED R’ ALBUM COVER + ALBUM NEWS

  1. actingbetty

    Oh gosh one eye showing the left eye at that this girl is starting to creep me out I once loved her but this ish is getting ridiculous

  2. Shavonne

    Loving all the photos coming from this album but not impressed in the slightest with her new single. I love Rihanna for her style, unfortunately it ends there. She’s all style, no substance.

  3. Tah

    Nice Cover. & i sse you getting yo Sasha Fierce on Rih

  4. Nisha

    Ripping off Grace Jones without any of the authenticity or artistry. Nobody who genuinely appreciates music would even acknowledge this slut, let alone buy “her” music which she has little to no contribution to other than murdering it with her “vocals”

    In comparison she makes Britney Spears look like Yoko Ono

  5. Kelly

    I guess every single photo has to have Rihanna with the all seeing left eye showing. What does Rihanna know about that considering the fact she doesn’t have a high school education. So what does it mean to her or is she only doing what she is told.

  6. GO AWAY

    I THINK RIHANNA TYRS TO HARD TO BE EDGY AND BAD. I WON’T BE BUYING HER ALBUM

  7. Twista

    I dig it. I get a Madonna “Erotica” vibe from this cover. I have a feeling the power of her images alone will keep her on a high streak, can’t wait to hear what the LP is going to sound like.

  8. MissP

    Im still having issues with this whole Im a dominatrix thingy. It will never stop, will it? I guess I am going to dislike the image all along the promotion of the album. Hope she comes with a better one on the next or she’s gonna lose a fan.

    Wait, how many fans will this cost her? Her new renovated “I am powerfull” Ri?
    That will be interesting to see.

  9. g3

    i agree wit u #2
    shes crossed over to the dark side all black everything im not feeln it but shes a gorgeous girl and her style is outta this world (or should i say stylist) buh wish her the best on this album w.e

  10. nieka

    i dont like it i personally like her better before she should have keep that going instead of tryin to be so dark

  11. bored

    You know! since they are so confident in Rihanna and her so many talents (joke), they ought to let people hear it before it comes out.. You know like the talent one did and still it sold millions…

  12. jjj

    I like the album cover! Kudos! I really like it…. the only fault I have is that she is covering her pretty face, lol… well, at least her face is on the cover and it’s not something else, like Jay-Z album cover.
    Go Rih!

  13. poboi

    Inside the CD jacket maybe, but not on the cover. Trying to hard.

  14. naldo

    ammm kelly she did have a high school education…………..and that cover sucks btw…….just too much madonna, evanesence, gothic crap

  15. Moha

    She’s making it harder and harder for me to not believe in the conspiracy ish all over the net. Like Kelly said above, what does this girl know about the eye of Horus? And it’s all becoming too blatant now. Who is controlling her image? I doubt it’s her, I doubt she reads THAT much! No shade

  16. THEDONKILLUMINATIJR

    BEWARE OF THIS WOMAN.

  17. Michelle

    SASHA FIERCE IS THAT YOU ?

  18. cont

    Rihanna calls her self showing the all seeing eye on the back of a dollar thats why her right eye is always covered, but we know Rihanna is uneducated.So do you actually think she knows what it means.All seeing eye, Rihanna come on now.What /who are you to be acting like you seeing every thing.I don’t get it boo.Can you even spell or multiply.Please let me know who do you think you are!Bawhahahahahahahah Rihanna all seeing eye lol again chick puhlease

  19. MikeNMiami

    Get it Rihanna!!! I’m getting Madonna’s Erotica album cover and I getting Janet jacksons Velvet rope album cover from this! Very Unique though! She keeps her fans attention plus her haters attention” …. I think I hear them comming now…. Let the hating and Negativity begin!!!!

  20. Lauren

    How does Rihanna have a high school education and she got with Jay-Z in America at age 15?

  21. Moha

    Oh, and Grace Jones she is not! Sorry!!!

  22. Young Hollywood

    Not sure Rhi Rhi…..Time may be up

  23. hi hater

    @Kelly Rihanna left school @ 16 and finish high school with a tutor. for your information a kid leaving school at 16 in the Caribbean have more education than a north American kid who graduate from high school. By the time you finish
    high school in the Caribbean do you O& A level plus CXC you already have 2 yrs of college. I could bet that the work she was getting from the tutor on the road was much easier than what she would have gotten back home. I could bet it was just a walk in the park. So stop talking shit. do your research on Caribbean high school education

  24. Megan

    i hate it very much!

    ^^this is for the Rihanna’s dellusional stans that’s stay hating on CB.

  25. TJACK25

    Oh wow…. “They” are serious about this aren’t “they”.

    RiRi, girrrrlll you have been officially taken over…

  26. hi hater

    @ Because by law she has to have a tutor with her until she gets a high school diploma

  27. Brooklyn

    I’m on the fence with this picture…

  28. Jenni Carol

    Personally, I do not care for the album cover or Rihanna. However, why is everyone attacking her? The same people who are attacking her educational status are the exact people inserting periods at the end of questions? I don’t get it!

  29. LULU

    It’s okay, nothing to write home about. Why does everyone keep comparing this to Madonna’s Erotica album cover? This looks NOTHING like that cover WTF are y’all talking about. If anything the black and white/grainy image may at best remind you of the Erotica VIDEO.

    Also who cares about the eye of Horus crap? Whether she knows about it or someone told her about it, if that’s what she relates to (feeling protected) then let her.

    No shade to her, but I thought she was covering her face–not just her eye–to show the irony of when she got her ass beat back in February.

  30. hi hater

    I don’t think Rihanna is catering for you hating ass Negroes anyway. she knows you ppl didn’t support her from the beginning and you wont start now. Black Americans never like or support her.So whatever she does you’re the last thing on her mind

  31. Lost My Purity Ring

    Oh Lord, here come the crazies! I think she was just tryna show-off that contraption on her hand. Nonetheless, I’m not really feeling this cover, I doubted it was the official cover, it looks more like something you’d find on the inside of a booklet.
    Kinda boring actually.
    You’d think with all these “subliminal” messages folks claim she puts out, the end product would be decidedly more appealing, just like that song, I can’t even remember the tune to.

    I think I actually liked the one her fans came up with, better.

  32. Kelly

    @Hi hater- Thats the same thing Beyonce and Destiny’s child said and we know these girls can’t even speak english it’s shows in their actions they have no education, tudor my you know what.If you pay a tudor he/she signs a paper it’s the Hollywood way.As a dumb butt Rihanna fan I know you are dumb so don’t step to me with that worshiping shish.You choose to worship Rihanna I don’t so bag da f back off of me stan I don’t play that stan sh%^ keep it moving thanks

  33. Lost My Purity Ring

    @ Hi Hater
    Take your simple behind to Perez, TMZ, or Just Jared- and then bask in all the adulation she gets from “clear folks”. They call her everything but a child of God, I wish you stans would stop acting like white people fawn over her every move. She gets crticized as much as anyother entertainter black or white.
    AND FYI- her latest single got mixed reviews from EVERYBODY!
    so much for that unabashed support of her “core audience” GTFOH!

  34. Lost My Purity Ring

    and lets not talk about lack of education when you cannot even spel TUTOR. Unless you’re talking about an English monarchy!
    LMAO

  35. SPACEBUSTER

    Rihanna is so fire!!! Like im lovin the album cover. Like @ kelly you should get your facts together before you speak. She has an education just like every other celebrity who started out young in the game she got a tutor and got her diploma… ughh I cant stand a hater!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  36. TLD

    Rihanna is way overrated if you ask me.Yeah her “image” can sell, but she is mediocre as Ashanti.

  37. SPACEBUSTER

    @ 37 Right lmao got her right together!!!!!!!!!!!!

  38. ARONOTICA

    This girl has LOST HER DAMN MIND!! No jokes! she wants to be RiRi Fierce now?? Nah honey stick to what you know.. that is your pon de reply days!

    HOT ASS FOOLYWANG!

  39. Just Me

    SASHA FIERCE IS THAT YOU ?!!!! lol!!!!!!

    OH SASHA!!!

  40. Mr.727

    Lets be real! Most people mad cuz chis brown went to jail for whoppin her ass! Most feel she is the cause of the shit that happen to Chris, but in all actuality they are botth to blame! Stop acting like she is a bitch , and he is a sain,t they’re both guilty parties!

  41. MikeNMiami

    It does give off The Erotca album cover!!! I have the album on my iPhone I would know!!! I’m looking at it now!!! SMH at Haters! This site is becoming More Negitive than MediaTO SMDH!

  42. Kelly

    Yeah all Rihanna pictures are covering her right eye to show her hand designs go stans go.It’s only a co ink e dink I repeat her right eye is always covered, dumb but can’t read but she knows about the all seeing eye I am lmao. To make money thats all she need to know cover that eye girl get yo money.”all I wanna do is take yo money” go stans go

  43. MikeNMiami

    How can a site so classy and positive have soo many negitive and bitter commenters??? Sometimes I feel like Im in a lions den! The females on here that comment are looney!!! This girl Rihanna can never get a break! Wow

  44. yawn

    WHO GIVES A DAMN IF SHE WENT TO SCHOOL OR NOT? HER DESTINY IS OBVIOUSLY TO SING AND BE A STAR PLUS YOU GO TO SCHOOL TO BE HAVE A JOB AND GAIN MONEY TWO ACCOMPLISHMENTS THE BISH HAS ALREADY DONE SO WHO THE HELL CARES? WITH THE MONEY SHE HAS SHE CAN BUY ALL THE EDUCATION SHE WANTS!

    Now I am not surprised by the cover’s darkness, she will go far with it right? Thats sad with all that image GGGB to the extreme while she is a FRAUD!!!! Rihanna is definitely one of the most marketable and image user artist of all time she has proves with image, beauty, hair, make up and catchy music, you can go far far far in the industry! But at least I give her creadit for takin risks and bein able to choose good singles. She still is a FRAUD to me.

  45. Mr.727

    Lets be real! Most people mad cuz chis brown went to jail for whoppin her ass! Most feel she is the cause of the shit that happen to Chris, but in all actuality they are both to blame! Stop acting like she is a bitch , and he is a saint,t they’re both guilty parties!

  46. ooo

    I wish all that fierce prostitute swagg she got on shoots and walkin with hooker clothes like a hoe on the streets was showin durin her performances LIVE SHOWS SMH bish cant back it up on stage and u cant fake on stage thats how we know youre worth mama, prove us you’re a real talent LIVE!

  47. heee

    GGOOD LUCK RIHANNA BEYONCE AND GAGA GOT TWO SONGS COMING IN THE NEXT WEEKS ALL THOSE PPL RELEASIN STUFF THE UPCOMIN MONTHS JUST GOOD LUCK CUZ RIGHT NOW ONLY YOUR STANS ARE FEELIN THAT SCARY DARK IMAGE OF YOURS!

  48. LULU

    @ 44 would you like a link ’cause that cover was all white boo boo.

    http://www.madonna-forums...rotica-cd-album-cover.jpg

    Now if you’re talking about the single cover, it still doesn’t come close

    http://upload.wikimedia.o..._Erotica_single_cover.jpg

    I’m not a hater of Rihanna, I like her, but if you’re misinformed you’re misinformed and it seems you all are just comparing the video to this cover, and not the actual cover.

  49. MMM

    SWAGGA JACKIN SASHA FIERCE SWAGGA JACKIN GRACE JONES AND MADONNA SWAGGA JACKIN EVA SIMMONS

  50. theComplex

    Cool image treatment, though I’d love to see more of her beautiful & unique face. Title placement and prominence could be better.

    Lol @ this “Kelly” character (#11. and #35) who cannot spell “TUTOR” (even after it’s been typed already) but wants to comment on education practices and ideologies.

    I’m excited to hear more from the album.

  51. God's Child

    It’s utterly sad how it is the “fad” to become a satan worshipper this day and age.
    Celebrities young and old have been duped into believing that pledging allegience to Lucifer/Satan/Horus/Baphomet will bring not only fame power and wealth, but even eternal life. I can’t even say that people are being fooled, because these are all grown people willfully submitting to be pawns and puppets to the evil will of this world’s dark lord, Satan. Listen, when it’s all said and done do not be surprised that your favorite music artists, actors, politicians and all around celebrities will one day admittedly declare that they do not (pretend to) worship the one true God, Jehovah, and his son Jesus Christ… but they worship Satan, point blank. The signs are shoved in your face so much that many are either blinded or willfully ignorant.

    Jesus is coming, maybe not now, maybe more than later… but when he does, will your life’s actions show that you deserve to be admitted into Heaven or Hell? To all my brothers and sisters in Christ, I will see you up top.

    GOD BLESS

  52. hood_shit

    creative vision- DO YOU RIH RIH!!!!!

  53. ARONOTICA

    LOL @42.. It is me! i see someone jacking my swagga!

  54. POSITIVE CHICK

    The darkness is similar to Janet’s Discipline cover.
    I prayed for Rihanna, I know she isn’t a devil worshipper, but she is going through a depressing time in her life. The best way to express it and release it is through music. God is watching her

  55. JUDAH

    —-It’s going to be interesting to gauge the spiritual progression towards satanism
    —-that will be on display in this “album” (spellbook) with this creature. Not only is
    —-the left eye of Horus strictly occultic, but even her album title and graphic is as
    —-well. She and her record label would like to have the average person think that
    —-the album is called “Rated R” as an allusion to her maturation and her name. In
    —-reality the letter “R” is a cryptic way to praise Satan through the trinity of Osiris,
    —-Isis, and Horus and the equilateral pyramid. “R” is the 18th letter and is a
    —-salute to the trinity, and the pyramid through the 6+6+6, which is 18. This
    —-must be the reason why they are titling the album this, because the “R” is
    —-fashioned as three nails. “Nail” is a pseudonym for the 6th letter in the Hebrew
    —-alphabet. Satan-worshipers call Satan “Nail” to commemorate the three nails used
    —-to crucify Christ, which is “nail, nail, nail” or “six, six, six”. In other words,
    —-Rihanna is stating that she will be burying Christ in this album. Notice that the
    —-energy drink “Monster”, employs the three nails also as it’s emblem. Also notice
    —-that Usher’s new album will be entitled “Monster”. Furthermore, Kanye West wore
    —-the Baphomet pin in the “So Amazing ” and called himself a “Monster” for the
    —-atrocities that he has commited to achieve fame.

  56. uhm

    yea whatever…she’s a swaggerjacker who has no talent
    nothing new here…NEXT!

  57. ann

    i dont belive this hoe dont belive her im feirce bad fake ass edgy played!!!! shit pplz this trick is soo damn weak and scared to say she want chris brown back this tick aint fooling nobody! rihanna does not have one original bone in her damn bodyBYE BYE HOE!

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