London, Nov 17 Rihanna is baffled over the huge outcry surrounding her racy artwork for her new track Russian Roulette, because according to the songbird the public should be quite familiar with her provocative dressing style.

Russian Roulette is the 21-year-old hitmaker's first single after her much publicised fight with Chris Brown earlier this year and features the sexy lass wrapped in barbed wire.

"I don't know why people are so surprised that I'm scantily clad, I've always been scantily clad, I've always been that way," the Daily Express quoted Rihanna, as telling British radio station Key 103.

She added: "I definitely thought the barbed wire was cool, it was a symbol of strength but fearlessness all at once, that's why we used it.

"We took our time and wrapped that barbed wire around me. It took forever because we had to wrap it round the front of me - a certain area - a few times more than the rest of me so that it would cover the necessary." (ANI)