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Podcast: Down On High: Examining the Records That Made Us
Episode: Rhianna - Good Girl Gone Band/Rated R
Description: Rhianna, thanks in part to her beauty line, Fenty, is the second wealthiest woman in music. Her album sales are just behind Madonna. Getting her start in girl group akin to Destiny's Child, Rhianna was plucked out of obscurity and made into one of the greatest selling artists of all time. Good Girl Gone Band is a grab bag of different experiments for who she could be as an artist, and Rated R is the crystallization of her particular sound. The lows are severely underwhelming, but the few highs are all-timers.Â