The story [Rihanna] wants to tell is the one in which the endangered woman doesn’t get out, or leaves for a while but comes back, or at best does leave, but can’t resolve the mixed feelings she has about her choice.
Ann Powers on Chris Brown, Rihanna and occupying the emotionally difficult space where blues women, country singers and girl groups once trod. (via nprmusic)
(McNutt: So glad for great writers Powers who are trying to actually analyze this difficult, confounding situation. It’s always easier to judge than to try and understand, and it’s our job as critics to always strive for the latter.)
Quick thoughts, observations and Interweb discoveries from Ryan McNutt—musicology student, freelance music journalist and PR practitioner based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 