by Yoshie » Fri May 28, 2010 4:20 pm
Rated R has its share of emotional songs which stem from the incident such as Stupid In Love, Russian Roulette, Fire Bomb, Photographs, Cold Case Love and The Last Song. More aggressively, she displays the outcome of her emotions through the likes of Hard, Rockstar 101 and G4L. The album is littered with emotional songs influenced by the incident which overall carries feelings and meanings through so many different layers and levels. To say that she isn't singing about and writing 'emotional songs' is ridiculous.
It also baffles me when people complain about the album being 'dark' to such a heavy extent. Visually, semantically and metaphorically, yes, the album is dark themed, but it terms of the songs on a literal level, there isn't THAT much darkness there; the lyrical expression makes up for it.