About On The Dig
2009
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I'm sorry, but I have to say something about Rihanna and the barbed wire photo. Would somebody please sit this young sister down and talk some sense into her? Before I go any further let me set the record straight: I've only seen one Rihanna video in my life and I wasn't impressed. She's young and sexy and consumer-friendly, but I prefer Jill Scott, Lizz Wright and Dianne Reeves for my viewing/listening/buying pleasure. In a nutshell, I'm not a fan. I'm simply a concerned citizen of the thinking-redwine-drinking world.
First, Rihanna decides not to mention anything about Chris Brown and the domestic violence. Now she's striped down to her bare essentials and wrapped in barbed wire on the new Russian Roulette cover. It's not real barbed wire, of course, but it certainly suggests that either she, or her PR folks, decided her recent abuse makes her a prime candidate to sell sadism. In fact, if given more time to meditate on this, I could assume Rihanna might even be into a sadomasochist lifestyle. Maybe that's why she chose not to say blip about Chris Brown's attack on her face. I'm pushing the envelope here, I know, but that's why somebody should sit this young songstress down and talk some sense into her. Or, at least, tell her to come out of the closet and confess she's a proud member of the S&M club. Who's advising this sister?
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This is the part that the domestic violence industry deliberately ignores:
Some women LIKE to be hit.
on another site was thought it was wayyyyy too much. I mean seriously??? Barbed wire over your girls??? But then I thought back to when Janet did the cover in a pair of jeans and her mans hands covering her top half...or Madonna (there are just too many naked bits of her to name)...and decided that I can't really be too mad at Rhianna for this one. Don't get me wrong. I sooooo think this cover is too over the top. But isn't this what sells records??? In this day and age, simply having a great voice just doesn't cut it anymore (love Jill Scott too by the way). Think of how many records non-singing Britney Spears sold (and Madonna for that matter) due in large part to them wearing revealing outfits??? I think Miss "Good girl gone bad" is just trying to seel some records (and by selling controversy she will definitely sell more records). I'm more concerned with what I heard was going on with the song. Russian Roulette...really??? Pointing a gun to your head with a bullet in it and pulling the trigger. Not smart. But maybe that's her way of describing her relationship with Chris...who knows.
wow!
Well, she may settle down one day...
And how my brother! I can't even get my girl to listen to these talented sisters, too busy listening to Rihanna destroy her youth and Mariah Carey destroy her lost youth.
Just goes to show you, as a celebrity, no portion of your life is out of bounds for good marketing fodder.