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But bbfan1991, being a role model isn't a person's job. And by that I mean that role models are regular people who get that title attached to them without asking for it. Rihanna is a global superstar, and therefore someone who is looked up to by many people, whether she likes it or not. She lost her right to do whatever she likes the day she decided to try and become a famous singer. Whether she likes it or not, everything she does is scrutinised by the media and everything she does has consequences. Being the victim of domestic abuse, and going back to her abuser, gives off such a negative message to impressionable minds that I can't even begin to comprehend how she, or anyone she works with, could have let this happen. In fact, I am mostly just disappointed at the people who work around her. It's very common for victims of abuse to go back to their abusers because of that honeymoon period of "but they've changed!" Other people should have seen through that. Who actually gave this idea the green light?! They had better have one hell of a marketing strategy to try and change the minds of all the people who saw those photographs of that poor woman's beaten face into thinking that, hey, Chris Brown isn't actually all that bad a guy.

Oh, and, the song is ****. Utter ****ing ****. I am so angry at this entire situation, and also at myself for even being shocked that this happened. There just isn't a limit to how low the music industry will go, is there? I hope this is the end of Rihanna's spell of popularity around the world. She has done the single most stupid thing a woman in her position could have ever done. I don't care how much they try to portray it as "she's forgiving her abuser" - no, she's playing into his hands by giving him his career back. She's rewarding him for being a persevering little ****. **** you Chris Brown and **** you Rihanna for being used again.