"Parents need to know that RUSSIAN ROULETTE is about a girl holding a gun, deciding whether or not to shoot herself. The song ends with a gun going off." No offense to the author, but this is an extremely inaccurate and ignorant review. First of all, the whole game of "Russian Roulette" mentioned in the song is a metaphor for Rihanna being stuck in a tough relationship that she wants to continue being in. She DOESN'T want to kill herself; she keeps playing this "game" of chance and risks her heart being broken for the man she loves. Second, in the highly-metaphorical music video, the Grey's Anatomy doctor (Rihanna's boyfriend in the video) is the one that gets killed. That's symbolic of his heart being broken instead of Rihanna's and it has nothing to do with actual violence or suicide. When I first heard this song back when its video premiered on 20/20, I found the main "heartbeat" in the background of the song to be very reminiscent of the House theme song ("Teardrop" by Massive Attack). Anyway, this is one of Rihanna's most powerful and dramatic songs.

Sucide and violence are not the answers!