Just as I was going to bed on Monday (18/11/13) night paparazzi pictures of Rihanna out and about in New York City started to emerged. Apart from the new black bob Rihanna was wearing 1970's style black leather flared trousers, a black leather 1970's style trenchcoat and let's just say a black fabric T-shirt.
Some people have suggested that this made her look like Whitney Houston. Although Whitney Houston did wear a similar style trenchcoat and hairstyle in the video for one of her later singles I think the outfit was mainly a reference to the uniform of the US Black Panther movement of the 1960's and 1970's. Their agenda of black empowerment obviously had huge resonance in the South African anti-apartheid movement which under the leadership of Winnie Mandela at the time was not quite as warm and cuddly as everybody likes to remember. As a result the black leather trenchcoat sort of became a symbol of resistance across the western world during what was really the golden age of international terrorism.
There is also a widely held conspiracy theory that the CIA flooded the US' black, urban population with cocaine and heroin in order to destroy the Black Panther movement. Whitney Houston of course died after decades of cocaine abuse and as I've been saying for a long time Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) have been trying to get Rihanna hooked on cocaine in order to make sure she meets the same fate as Whitney Houston. So while I can't help but be a little impressed by Rihanna's choice of outfit it hardly fits with my recommendation that she keeps a low profile politically.
While she was out and about in New York Rihanna made a point of making sure that paparazzi saw her visiting a tattoo parlour where she picked up some miscellaneous bits and pieces. The main purpose of the visit though was to draw attention to the fact that Rihanna has started having the early work done on her left hand for a tattoo similar to the cover up job she recently had done on her right hand. The hope seems to be that if the tattoos match it will make the right-handed tattoo look less ugly. I obviously think that it will just make it doubly ugly. Therefore Rihanna getting yet another tattoo could be interpreted as an act of defiance of me and my views.
On Tuesday (19/11/13) there was further defiance with Melissa Forde posting on Instagram/Twitter a picture of her sitting with her feet up on a private jet eating popcorn. Obviously with no indication of where she was headed or why a picture that simply indicates Rihanna's core social group are on a plane causes more problems then it solves. I like to think that the popcorn was intended to indicate that Forde was going to enjoy sitting back and watching what management had assured her would be a very stressful evening for me. I of course responded by mocking her homosexuality.
A few hours later Rihanna posted a picture on Instagram only of her herself together with Forde in what could be a hotel room or could be a private jet. The picture claimed that the pair were in Detroit and the flight times would broadly support that. The fact that Rihanna didn't re-post that image on Twitter so I could see it immediately along with her failure to offer any evidence to support the claim that she was in Detroit could well be interpreted as further acts of defiance against me.
We are of course still awaiting confirmation that Rihanna is indeed in Detroit along with the bullsh*t excuse as to why she is in Detroit. However the intention is to create speculation that Rihanna is in Eminem's home town to work on the video for the song "The Monster." The issue of whether the management have given Rihanna permission to work with one of the Eminem's is of course a conversational mine field. There is also hope that Rihanna's presence in Detroit will be viewed as having some connection to the race issues brought up in the ongoing Theodore Wafer/Renisha McBride case which is of course being further complicated by the subsequent arrest of George Zimmerman.
Obviously I didn't find out about Rihanna's Instagram picture until about four hours after it had happened. As a result I though it might have had some bearing on my decision to ignore Tweets from both Cara Delevinge and Chris Brown. As it turns it didn't and that's just sort of what my brain does when I really should have gone to bed 20 minutes earlier.
12:00 on 20/11/13 (UK date).
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