COVER WARS:RIHANNA AND CHRIS BROWN

Rihanna on her hair:
�I kept telling my managers, I�m cutting my hair. I�m cutting my hair. And they�re like, �How short? Not too short. Cut it how short?� And I�m like, �Up to here,� � Rihanna says, raising her hand up to her ear. �They never believed me. So when it was time to do the album cover [for Good Girl], the night before I cut it, I dyed it black. We went straight to the photo shoot, and no one at the record label knew what I looked like. When we sent the pictures over, they saw the hair and they all loved it. They loved it.�

On the success of �Umbrella:�
�That song is very, very magical,� says the singer, nodding her heart-shape face. �Because even when I travel, I can�t believe the kind of people that know that record. Their age, their nationality, they don�t speak English, but they all know that song.�

On her formerly alcoholic father:
�That was way, way, way back,� she says, shaking her head and staring at her dish of pasta. �We�re friends now. Now my dad is like the coolest person on the planet. He doesn�t smother me. He lets me live my life. And he�s been like that a lot, even when I was younger. He would watch me making a mistake and he wouldn�t stop me. My dad, he lets me make it and then I learn.�

On singing in front of Jay-Z for the first time:
�I remember staring into everybody�s eyes in the room while I was singing, and at that point, I was fearless,� she says about the audition. �But the minute I stopped singing, I was like, Oh my God, Jay-Z is sitting right in front of me.�

On the rumor about a relationship with Jay-Z:
�Well, it�s crazy that you ask me that. People know that it�s not true,� she says, straightening up. �I think it�s kinda a clich� question, and people know it�s not true, so I don�t even know why it�s still addressed to this day. I get asked about it all the time and I�m like, You�re asking, but you know the answer. I don�t even like to address it anymore.�

On Chris Brown:
�We�ve always been friends, but we�re very close now.�

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