Good for Rihanna

If only the song was better. Kanye's got Rihanna's Chris Brown-diss track featuring Lady Gaga. It's kind meh. Lyrically, saying you'll get flowers for the grave of the ex who battered you is perhaps not terrific messaging in these circumstances, no? I suppose "you had a good girl / that's a keeper / you had a good girl / but didn't know how to treat her" is a nice circle back to the title of "Good Girl Gone Bad," her massive album. But the repetition of "good girl" sounds less interesting than Lady Gaga's repetitions of "poker face" on the track of the same name. In the latter case, there's a play on meaning involved. In the former, Rihanna is just reasserting her own goodness again and again, and while I sympathize, it doesn't make for a great song. Musically, the song has the same kludgy, heavy sound that's bothering me about Eminem's "Relapse" right now. I'll try to find a better way to articulate that, but it sounds like the lyrics are trying to rise up through a really syrupy sound, and I don't like it.