Good Girl Gone Bad

Album: Good Girl Gone Bad (2007)
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  • "Good Girl Gone Bad" is the title track to Rihanna's third album, released in 2007 when she was 19. On the track, Rihanna levels a warning at the men out there who aren't taking care of their ladies. All those good girls will go bad if they don't treat them right.
  • The song was written by Ne-Yo along with his go-to production team Stargate and the singer Lene Marlin, who like Stargate is Norwegian. Ne-Yo and Rihanna signed to Def Jam around the same time and often worked together. He released his debut album, In My Own Words, in 2006, with the hit "So Sick," but also did a lot of writing for other artists. For Rihanna, he also co-wrote "Hate That I Love You" and "Unfaithful."
  • Men's Fitness magazine asked Rihanna if she really was a "good girl gone bad." She replied: "The title of the album represents my liberation. Being able to break out of the innocent image I was forced into. Now I'm just being me. I'm a little more rebellious. On the record you hear that I have a lot more attitude. So it matches the new sound, the new image, the new haircut... the new everything."

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  • Emily from Maryborough, Australiai love this song...i got told by an ex bf that it remnds him of me
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