Rihanna's personal pain fueled album

From the pain comes the creativity. While writing songs for her upcoming album, Rated R, Rihanna had to let down her guard and draw from a private place full of pain to express herself through music.

"I'm usually a very guarded person, so having to go in and reach your emotions and personal things to say, it was very weak," the Barbadian beauty, 21, told people at Monday night's Glamour Women of the Year Awards in New York City.

She said the inspiration for her upcoming album, which will be released Nov. 23, come from "personal experiences mixed with rock and hip-hop."

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