Yesterday, Rihanna and Chris Brown released two songs that they made together, effectively ending any public ill will that existed between the two following Brown’s brutal assault upon Rihanna, his then-girlfriend. Objectively, they are not very good. To take a further objective standpoint, these two ostensibly bland songs will court more controversy than anything that, say, Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu ever could, even though Stewart is the type of guy whose histrionics so screamingly romance such attention that it makes you want to cringe if you’re even paying him the slightest attention. It’s a testament to how pop culture-and…