A Girl like Me (Rihanna album) excludes elements of a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.
" With the release of her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), Rihanna dismissed her innocent image for an edgier look with a new hairstyle, which was inspired by Charlize Theron's bob cut in the science fiction thriller on Flux (2005)
 Her debut album demonstrates the influence of Rihanna's musical heritage of the Caribbean

