The Truth About Rihanna's Military Training
It's spectacular enough that Rihanna recorded "Pon de Replay" at 16, however she already went through rigorous sub-military training five years previous. Funny sufficient, she took orders from a fellow Barbadian singer: Shontelle of "T-Shirt" and "Impossible" popularity. In fact, Shontelle was once Rihanna's drill sergeant. In a 2009 interview with BBC, Shontelle explained, "We were both in cadets together — it wasn't compulsory or anything. But picture me and Rihanna in combat boots and fatigues crawling through mud and things like that."
By "cadets," Shontelle is relating to the Barbados Cadets Corps, a program for Barbadian teens that sets them up for military good fortune. However, the famously rebellious Rihanna wasn't the best at taking orders even again then. In 2015, she advised NME, "We'd have to give trouble in order to enjoy this discipline we were getting. And we'd refuse to do push-ups when we were punished. It was a question of: Why just do it? It was so boring to follow the rules." It seems like Shontelle had her fingers complete! Either approach, in spite of Rihanna's disobedience, the talents she learned in training would in the end come in useful.
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