{"id":14692,"date":"2009-10-24T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14692"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:50:16","slug":"rihannas-new-single-references-chris-brown-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/24\/rihannas-new-single-references-chris-brown-beating\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna’s New Single References Chris Brown Beating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rihanna’s first new single<\/a> since getting beaten by boyfriend Chris Brown is titled “Russian Roulette.”\u00a0 On the cover, she is wrapped in barbed wire with an eye patch that looks like a black eye:<\/p>\n

\"russian_roulette\"<\/p>\n

The lyrics include:<\/p>\n

And you can see my heart beating
\nYou can see it through my chest
\nAnd I’m terrified but I’m not leaving
\nKnow that I must pass this test
\nSo just pull the trigger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And:<\/p>\n

So many won’t get the chance to say goodbye
\nBut it’s too late too pick up the value of my life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given the many, many young girls that blamed Rihanna for her beating, releasing a song that posits that love is simply dangerous is really… disappointing.”<\/p>\n

You can read a more thoughtful discussion about this by Anna North at Jezebel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rihanna’s first new single since getting beaten by boyfriend Chris Brown is titled “Russian Roulette.”\u00a0 On the cover, she is wrapped in barbed wire with an eye patch that looks like a black eye: The lyrics include: And you can see my heart beating You can see it through my chest And I’m terrified but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2090,133],"class_list":["post-14692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-violence","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14698,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14692\/revisions\/14698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}