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Rihanna Party! ICYMI

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Rihanna's Umbrella, Is a Song About Language

Rihanna's single, "Umbrella," is predicated on a single utterance: A. That single syllable goes through so many tonal shifts just in its nanosecond of explosiveness. It doesn't feel like her debut of this is the beginning of the Rihanna that has stayed in our culture and consciousness for Totally.

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