Rihanna/YMMV

• Accidental Aesop: It seems the lesson a lot of teenagers learned after her assault was "It doesn't matter how badly your boyfriend beat you up, it's what you get because you should not have hit/provoked him first."
• Crowning Moment of Awesome / Crowning Moment of Funny: Her cosplaying as Slash in the video for "Rockstar 101."
  • For Moment of Awesome what about recovering from Darker and Edgier and getting #1's with it. Girl is now a Fiery Redhead. Hell, even her rising up and healing a bit counts.
  • Another Moment Of Funny occurred when a pseudo-fan on Twitter wondered "Why does her hair look so nappy?" Rihanna promptly tweeted back:

Rihanna: 'cuz I'm black bitch!!!!

• Crowning Music of Awesome: To hell with copycat accusations, this girl has talent. Special Mentions go to her Jay-Z collaborations Umbrella and Run This Town; and also Disturbia.
  • Only Girl In The World. So. So. Much. Oh. God the vocals. Rude Boy, S&M, and What's My Name.
  • Cheers (Drink to That) is such an incredibly upbeat and happy song when compared to most of the songs on Rated R. It really makes you feel happy for her recovering from her assault and rising above it.
  • Rehab is one incredible song
  • Her Grittier albums always work better, Rated R, Talk That Talk, Good Girl Gone Bad.
• Ear Worm: "Under my umbrella ella ella eh eh..."
  • "Bum bum be dum bum bum be dum bum..."
  • "Come here rude boy boy, can you get it up? Come here rude boy boy is it big enough?"
  • "Oh na-na, what's my name? Oh na-na, what's my name?"
  • "Na-na-na come on! Come on! Come on! I like-it-like-it..."
  • "WANT YOU TO MAKE ME FEEL, LIKE I'M THE ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD"
  • "JUST GONNA STAND THERE AND WATCH ME BURN."
  • "TOO COLD FOR YOU TO KEEP HER, TOO HOT FOR YOU TO LEAVE HER"
  • "TURN UP THE LIGHTS IN HERE BAY-BAY, EXTRA BRIGHT I WANT Y'ALL TO SEE THIS"
  • "Cuz you're my disease-ease"
  • "Fallin' like da rain so we ain't runnin' out, always rainin' men girl whatcha worry bout?"
  • "We found love in a hopeless place! We found love in a hopeless place! We found love in a hopeless place! We found love in a hopeless place!"
  • WHERE. HAVE. You been? ALL my li-life! ALL my li-life...!
• Fandom Rivalry: With fans of more "mature" R&B/soul singers such as Chrisette Michele, Ledisi, or Jill Scott. They see her as someone who is all looks and no talent. The rivalry with Beyoncé fans is more heated..
• Girls Need Role Models: Rihanna has said that she wanted to be a role model to girls that were in the same situation she was, but apparently reigned in that belief by working with Chris Brown again.
• Harsher in Hindsight: "Good Girl Gone Bad"'s ballads are particularly painful to listen to these days.
  • "Breakin' Dishes" as far as upbeat songs go.
  • The end of the video for "If I Never See Your Face Again", her song with Maroon 5, ends with Adam Levine pulling her head back in a rather aggressive pose. It's kind of... grim. Especially given what the song's about.
• Heroic RROD: General discussion of her heading into a breakdown similar to Mariah Carey or Britney Spears is thorough. She does work extremely hard.
• Forehead of Doom: Tweeted a picture of her head with the caption, "New hair, new curling iron burn. Damn fivehead always in the way."
• Growing the Beard: Though it's debatable when she grew it. Different people will claim that she either grew it or cut it around Loud, or Rated R or Talk That Talk. They're that divisive.
  • Her vocals have improved considerably over the years, compare and contrast.
• Les Yay: "Te Amo" is about a woman (played by gorgeous French supermodel Laetitia Casta, yet!) who says she's in love with Rihanna. And dancing with her. And Rihanna being confused. And if that piques your interest, watch the video. It was never even aired on TV in some countries due to its themes.
• Memetic Mutation: The "disco diva" line from Who's That Chick?
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • "Disturbia". Makes sense, considering it's about Sanity Slippage. The video to the song, makes it oh so much worse.
  • The video for "Rockstar 101."
  • "Russian Roulette." If not for what she compares her love to, for the scene in the music video where she is shot underwater.
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: When Rihanna released not one but two remixes with Chris Brown who had been convicted violently hitting her on the eve of the 2009 Grammys, people expected backlash. One week later, Brown and Rihanna had posted the two biggest Twitter follower gains of the week, Birthday Cake rose on iTunes and was even played a lot on the radio.
• Tear Jerker: Love The Way You Lie, her collaboration with Eminem, is about domestic abuse. That's why Eminem picked her to sing the chorus.
  • Love The Way You Lie Pt II is even more tear jerking.
  • Rehab can jerk the tears out of you too.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks: She gets a lot of this. "Too much like Beyonce/Michael/Janet/Britney/Christina etc."