More Filth from Rihanna

For the third week in a row the UK singles charts have been topped by the singer Rihanna with her latest song ‘Only Girl (In The World)’. It seems that everywhere you go this song is booming out at you. Whether I am in a shop, watching television or even when passing kids in the street listening to music on their phones I keep hearing this song. One wonders do the wee girls who are listening to this song realise what they are singing along to, for the lyrics of the song are nothing but filth.

With this song having such a major chunk of airtime and being so popular I decided to find out exactly what the lyrics were all about. Up to that point I was only aware of the line ‘only girl in the world’ which was whirling around my head. I happened to notice on television the other night that Rihanna was to perform this hit so I decided to watch and have a listen to the lyrics. After her performance my wife and I just looked at each other and shook our heads. It was nothing more than filth!

At that very moment in my living room I decided that I needed to ‘blog’ about this. This is not the first time I have felt compelled to ‘blog’ about Rihanna. Last June I ‘blogged’ about the corruption within popular music generally and mentioned Rihanna amongst others. I believe it is important that people understand about the music that is having such an influence on the next generation.

If you think I am overreacting and being a bit of a prude just take a look at the lyrics of this song. I am almost reluctant to type this garbage but sometimes we just have to call sin by its name and shine a light on it.

Verse 1
I want you to love me, like I’m a hot pieKeep thinkin’ of me, doin’ what you likeSo boy forget about the world cuz it’s gon’ be me and you tonightI wanna make your bed for ya, then imma make you swallow your pride

When a pop artist sings about love, they are not talking about love, as the Bible understands it, they are speaking of nothing more than Sex. In this first verse the singer invites her lover to do what he likes to her as she makes herself a bed for him.

Verse 2
Want you to take me like a thief in the nightHold me like a pillow, make me feel rightBaby I’ll tell you all my secrets that I’m keepin’, you can come insideAnd when you enter, you ain’t leavin’, be my prisoner for the night

Verse two begins with a corrupted use of some Biblical language, which refers to the Lord’s return (the song is not talking about the Lords return). In this verse she invites her lover to ‘come inside’. This of course is nothing more than a description of sexual intercourse. The next line, which makes reference to his not leaving and his being a prisoner, may be a reference to some kind of ‘bondage’.

Bridge
Take me for a rideOh baby, take me highLet me make you firstOh make it last all night

The final bridge of the song needs very little comment for the connotation of the word ‘ride’ needs no explanation.

This song from beginning to end is a song about sex. Nothing more, nothing less! It is filthy and the sad thing is that kids, some of them of primary school age, will be walking around the schoolyard today at lunchtime listening to this garbage and singing along. The question you need to ask is this, are my kids listening to this? Are my grandchildren listening to this? Are the kids in my Sunday school class or youth group listening to this?

This garbage is from the pit of hell and is designed to one thing, to corrupt, to poison and to pollute your precious children. Don’t let the devil has his way. These influences need to be removed, but not without explanation and education. Show them why it is so wrong in the light of God’s Word and do it in love, they don’t know any better; they can’t fully grasp the spiritual battle that is going on for their young hearts and minds. To conclude I think the words of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians sum up how we need to treat the garbage of this world.

‘And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.’ Ephesians 5 v 11-12