I've spent some time with Rated R and I'm not moved - neither was Rihanna. If anything, this album's message sounds dated, trite and contrived.

A woman was scorned and abused and responds to such adversity with an eye for an eye. This message, esp. coming from Rihanna, seems as inauthentic as her 20/20 interview.

Like Rihanna, I'm not feeling the message, I'm not feeling the beats and I'm not feeling the lyrics. These songs were spoon-fed to her by writers and producers who hoped to take a tragic ordeal to commercially successful heights, but a lot is lost in translation.

If this album were dropped a couple months after her Brown ordeal it would have been far more palatable.