Rihanna: Bad Gal

Part of what makes Rihanna stand out is how she took the bad-girl template and blew it up into something more complicated: an artist who could be unabashedly feminine but who could out-nasty her male counterparts at every turn, whose sexual frankness never got in the way of her tenderness or depth, who could be both dirty and genuine—you know, like a whole person. These are the tracks that highlight Rihanna at her most empowered and unapologetic.