I Should Probably Tidy That Up.

Unfortunately I've got to dash off to this wedding. Therefore it's going to be semi-coherent Tweets only from me until Sunday (19/5/13)/Monday (20/5/13) and good manners dictate they will be intermittent at best. Before I go though the US have obviously been working very hard to push Rihanna to the top of the agenda for the Eurovision Song Contest. So a quick update;

Early this morning - in order to maximise the impact on the Asian and Australasian finacial markets - it was announced that Rihanna will be supported on the European leg of her Diamonds World Tour by the most hyped band of 2013 - Haim. For the Morocco (24/5/13) concert and the Turkey (30/5/13) concert the purpose of this is obviously the "Are Haim Jewish or not?" question. Despite the fact that Haim have yet to do very much and are very weird and cult-like the Haim girls are clearly very artistically talented. Therefore the CIA handlers hope is that all the other European concerts will be accompanied by serious music journalists going; "Well the support act are clearly much better than the main act." Throughout the tour the hope is that Rihanna and Haim will become close and they'll help report details of how the tour is going back to the US.

Also today press reports are emerging that Rihanna is suing a UK High Street clothes retailer. Sadly though this legal action isn't being taken against River Island in order to bring the ill-conceived Rihanna licensing deal to an end. Instead it's against River Island's main rival Topshop for their use of Rihanna's images on T-Shirts without Rihanna's permission. I haven't seen the legal papers or the T-Shirts in question. However if they were taken in a public place the copyright of the photographs belongs to the photographer so they can do what they like with them. I suppose the case will spark some debate about press freedom (especially the paparazzi) and the use of so-called 'Orphan photographs' particularly on the Internet. However in the UK it is up to Parliament rather than the Courts to change the law. Therefore all Rihanna is doing is setting herself up for an expensive failure - something which is sadly fast becoming the unofficial motto of Rihanna's increasingly nihilistic management.


11:20 on 17/5/13.