Operation Misery: Month 9, Week 2, Day 1.

Last night Rihanna performed in Dallas, Texas. As usual Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) provided absolutely no official information about the concert and due to the fact the concert only ended some three hours ago unofficial is strictly limited.

However I can tell that Rihanna performed the standard set-list with standard costume changes and the standard stage set-up. Rihanna appeared on stage within a hour of the scheduled start of her performance which was late enough cause some excitement amongst the crowd but not late enough for that excitement to turn into anger. Obviously having not seen it I cannot personally comment on the strength of Rihanna's performance but I gather that it was energetic and more then competent.

During the time surrounding Rihanna's concert there were no highly illustrative shootings, fires, playing crashes or similar stunts from the US. However rather then reflecting that the US is now going to be behaving itself for the remaining three Diamonds World Tour concert this seems to be the US thinking that the gossip from the concert itself would be disruptive enough. Quite a few celebrities attended last night's concerts most noticeably Drake who Rihanna used to be romantically involved with. Rihanna is of course being supported on this tour by A$AP Rocky who she has been rumoured to be romantically involved in. Therefore the intention was to start the rumour that Rihanna is having sex with either Drake or A$AP Rocky as I sit here and type this.

Unfortunately though the reason why we know Drake attended the concert is that lots of fellow concert goers spotted him as he was in the audience rather then backstage. Also lots of people saw him partying at a nightclub after the concert without Rihanna meaning that it is extremely unlikely that he will be able to catch up with Rihanna's tour bus as it heads to Oklahoma. As for the rumours of A$AP Rocky I've never treated them with any degree of credibility. As such the small 4.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Philippines shortly after the end of Rihanna's concert seems to be the earth itself mocking the US by making fun of the way we say the earth moves when people achieve orgasm.

All indications are that the US intends to press ahead regardless with its Rihanna plan. On Friday (15/11/13) they are going to release the video for the single "What Now." This is of course the video that caused Rihanna to go on her controversial diversion to Thailand during the South-East Asian leg of the tour. The release of the single is of course supposed to pose the question of "What now for Rihanna?" The fact the video is being released on the last day of the tour is just toe-curlingly awful but then subtly and deftness of touch have not been the hallmarks of this operation.

While I'm here I should also tidy up a little spat I had with Rihanna on Sunday (10/11/13) when she noticed I'd favourited on Twitter a blogpost comparing the Rihanna song "S.O.S" with the chemically-mediated tritrophic interactions of the Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed. I should point out that this was most probably written by an author trying to inject humour into an otherwise quite dull subject. However I thought it should be brought to Rihanna's attention in order to highlight exactly what I mean when I say "coded discussions." After all that article was quite vanilla by the usual standard.


09:35 on 12/11/13 (UK date).