Your Playlist: Rhianna

American Oxygen by Rhianna might be a great way to start or end the semester. Check out these lyrics:

Oh say can you see, this is the American Dream
Young girl, hustlin’
On the other side of the ocean
You can be anything at all
In America, America
I say, can’t you see
Just close your eyes and breathe

Breathe out, breathe in
American oxygen
Every breath I breathe
Chasin’ this American Dream
We sweat for a nickel and a dime
Turn it into an empire
Breathe in, this feeling
American, American oxygen

The video is far more dark than those lyrics suggest. One might ask — at the start or end of the semester — whether this is really is a country where “You can be anything at all” anymore.

-KitJ