Rihanna embraces the radical middle on 'Anti'

A few years ago, audiences were preoccupied with seeing Rihanna as a victim — an identity she was never comfortable with — and eventually as a "bad" victim when (like many victims) she found it hard to make a clean break from her abuser. Then the narrative shifted, and she became the weed smoking, man-eating BadGalRiri we know today, someone who's carefree to the point of caricature. Rihanna emerges from a black Escalade in formal pajamas, glass of red wine in hand, and we fill in the blanks...