Rihanna has just completed her first concert in Perth, Australia. Rather neatly coinciding with US President Obama's speech at the UNGA Rihanna took to the stage about 20-30 minutes after her scheduled stage which is the expected amount of lateness. Rihanna performed the standard tour set-list with Act 3 (Man Down) appearing before Act 2 (Jump) which is now considered the standard running order. The big news is that Rihanna has gone back to using the standard costume changes confirming that one outfit per show routine used in Macau, Manila and Singapore was purely for the purpose of getting the Chinese to wondering if the changes to 'Rihanna's outfit' were actually references to Rihanna's tour party.
The major problem is that I found out all of this through unofficial channels because Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) are still adamantly sticking to their information blackout. Rihanna's friend Melissa Forde is even going so far as to make pretty weak attempts to distribute false information. This is a problem because with accurate information being easy to come by the flow of official information is really just a test of the managements attitude. For example do they want to be cooperative by providing the required information or do they want to pick fights with people by withholding it. With Thailand aggressively distancing themselves from the operation by making arrests and the South Korean government cancelling contracts with the 787 Dreamliner manufacturer Boeing to supply F-15 fighter jets I strongly suggest the management stop picking fights. That's because if the objective of the operation is to hand the Asia-Pacific region to the Chinese they are doing a bang up job. Also by continuing with the hostility the management are opening the door to things like the Westgate shopping centre attack because on current form it would be all too easy to conclude that was just an extension of the US' Rihanna operation.
On a related note on Sunday (22/9/13) Miley Cyrus preformed at the "I *heart* Music" festival just like Rihanna did last year. Today it's been announced that Miley Cyrus will be the cover star of this months Rolling Stone magazine just like Rihanna did last year. So in short the management is forcing Miley Cyrus to follow in Rihanna's footsteps. In part this is to get us all speculating about what went so tragically wrong last year for Rihanna to end up in this terrible situation. On a more personally level it's to get Miley Cyrus thinking and talking about her attitudes towards Rihanna and by extension me.
16:45 on 24/9/13.
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