Meaner

Pop music is basically Rihanna and Taylor Swift—listen to both and you’ve heard all that matters. Everything else is just sad noise, the same beats and melodies and tired phrases looped forever. Of course both of them destroy anything else in their path. And one of them just escalates.

Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money video gets meaner. She hacks, she saws, she curses her way through luxury and drugs and blood, with rich girls stripping for her, one tit after another. If you don’t walk out of that beautiful hell a little damaged, you’re past saving.

Bibi Bourelly from Berlin wrote it—she was 20, just curious what it felt like to do something for Rihanna. Kanye heard it and dug it. And writing this I feel like a BRAVO magazine editor and want to kill myself. So when does Taylor drop her blood-and-tits video?