KRISTINA MURRELL, Beautiful Disaster
Since Rihanna burst into pop consciousness in the mid-2000s, she’s been such a pervasive force not only in music but in our culture in general that the mere thought of the Caribbean island of Barbados brings to mind only her and her staggering statistics – 250 million records sold worldwide, 14 #1s and 31 top-ten singles, nine Grammys, 13 American Music Awards and being named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world twice. Since Rihanna’s been around, j