Yesterday (15/12/13) the video was released to support the Eminem & Rihanna song "The Monster." The release of this video will obviously draw fresh attention to the song which I, personally, think is a bad idea. Although The Monster is without a doubt the strongest song that Rihanna has released in 2013 from start to finish the whole song has been quite a big joke at Rihanna's expense.
You may remember that Rihanna recorded her part of the single in London, UK just before embarking on the third and final leg of the Diamonds World Tour. A lot of people think that it would have been a better idea for Rihanna to use this time to meet up with me in preparation. Then the fact that I've long been acknowledged as Eminem's psychological 'monster' meant that the song featuring Rihanna singing lyrics like "I'm friends with the monster" was Rihanna being tricked into publicly admitting that she is friends with me. That of course reinforces the idea that Rihanna really should have met up with me in person by now. The video for the song continues in this mocking theme.
The concept shows Eminem in a sort of psychiatric hospital setting (lots of straight jackets and padded cells etc) reviewing aspects from his life. The main aspects included feature the film "8 Mile" which is about Eminem's life which was released in 2002/3 just as I was exploding onto the global stage and being assigned the pseudonym "Eminem.". It also features snippets from the video for "The Way I Am" which features Eminem leaping from a tall building in an apparent suicide attempt. According to my medical/police records I once attempted suicide by leaping off a tall building. The video also features snippets of Eminem performing live with renowned homosexual and British gay rights activist Elton John. I'd hazard a guess that this collaboration was imposed on Eminem in order to send out the message that I am not homophobic. So the aspects of Eminem's life shown in the video are intended to highlight exactly why I'm acknowledged as his psychological 'monster'. All these events of course occurred during the Presidency of George W Bush during which time members of the US intelligence community were, in all seriousness, talking about sending one of the 'Eminems' to the actual Guantanamo Bay. Hence all the caged/prison and military imagery although I believe Eminem has an endorsement deal with one of the "Call of Duty" video games.
Apart from some obligatory hand dancing in a darkened room Rihanna's main role in the video is that of Eminem's psychiatrist/therapist. This is a reference to something I amongst others have picked up on during my time in contact with Rihanna. It seems that as far as she is concerned Rihanna has absolutely no problems in her life and every decision she makes is nothing short of perfect. However the rest of us - all the South Africans, the Filipino victims of Typhoon Haiyan, every victim of domestic violence/sexual violence worldwide and in particular me - we all have very serious problems and we need Rihanna to help us and look after us.
That makes Rihanna a perfect example of what Sigmund Freud termed "Psychological Projection." This is a phenomenon in which a person with significant emotional/personal problems seeks to avoid them by denying their existence and instead projecting them onto the people around them. Often the person doing the projecting will then attempt to solve these imagined problems by helping that other person. They cast themselves in the role of the person's therapist so to speak. Therefore the video for The Monster is clearly attempting to highlight this flaw in Rihanna's personality. If Rihanna is in on the joke this could have been an attempt at something positive. However in my experience when people realise they've been engaging in psychological projection it is often a humiliating experience that leaves them feeling emotionally vulnerable. Therefore having several million people point and laugh at you whilst it's happening has got to be the worst way to go about it. As such I hope there are plenty of people prepared to show Rihanna warmth for reasons other then the video. After all she seems intent on insisting that I can't be that person for her.
This reference to psychological projection actually leads me onto a wider concern I have about Rihanna at present. Having been developed in the 19th Century Freud's work on psychoanalysis has been discredited to the point of being useless to people suffering from genuine mental illness. However Freud inspired psychotherapies are still of use to people suffering from deep seated emotion problems - such as Rihanna. The problem is that psychotherapy is a very subtle process in which the intention is really for a person to realise certain things about themselves without really noticing that it is happening. By moving to New York City to avoid Chris Brown and indicating that she is smoking less marijuana Rihanna appears to be attempting to treat herself. This rarely works and can sometimes lead to a person going on to develop genuine mental illness such as personality disorders. With the risk of mental illness being quite low I think the best outcome of Rihanna's current situation is that nothing changes. The worst outcome is that Rihanna develops an over-analytical personality which destroys her ability to form meaningful relationships in the future and robs her of the warmth that helps make her so popular. I find this particularly frustrating because I know how easily all this could have been avoided if Rihanna had just picked up the phone following the 2012 para-Olympic closing ceremony.
The release of the Monster video was of course timed to coincide with a Court appearance by Chris Brown. Basically what happened here is that Judge Brandlin Gluber stuck to the script he followed at Chris Brown's last Court appearance. Brown had his probation revoked but no further action was taken because he is currently in a rehabilitation facility. The Court heard from that rehab facility which claimed that - against all prevailing scientific knowledge - it is successfully treating Chris Brown. Rather then blaming Brown's errant behaviour on a deep rooted personality disorder the rehab facility instead blamed it all on his marijuana use and claimed he is being responsive to psychotropic drugs. Although the exact nature of these psychotropic drugs was not disclosed I suspect they are remarkably similar to the psychotropic drugs I myself take. With Brown being magically rehabilitated the Court of course saw now need to impose a restraining order keeping Brown away from Rihanna or indeed any other woman. Brown is next scheduled to appear in Court in Washington D.C to answer an assault charge on January 8th 2014 (8/1/14) and will reappear in front of Brandlin Gluber at a yet to be specified date in February 2014. If justice is allowed to run its course Brown should be making that appearance via video link from a Washington D.C prison.
In order to maximise the drama surrounding his Court appearance Chris Brown yesterday released the record "Loyal" on the Internet. Featuring lyrics like "These B*tches aren't loyal!" this was supposed to give the impression that Brown was insulting Rihanna. The intention being that there is no need for a restraining order to be imposed because Brown is clearly over Rihanna and moving on with Kerruche Tran. However you don't need to be a psychoanalyst to know that a person who is constantly badmouthing their ex clearly isn't over that ex. The deeper analysis of the song "Loyal" which I somehow doubt the song writer told Chris Brown about is that it is a reference to Brown's CIA handler. This handler may or may not be a woman but I have assigned them the pseudonym "Carrie Mathison" - the mentally unstable character from the TV Show "Homeland." With this operation now having done substantial and practical damage to US interests internationally the intention being to promote discussion about whether 'Carrie' is been disloyal to the US by continuing to protect Chris Brown?
In a transparent attempt to reinforce the idea that there is no need for Chris Brown's restraining order to be reinstated Rihanna last night attended a party with A$AP Rocky in an attempt to fuel speculation that the two are now dating. As I've said before I think this is extremely unlikely but as with Drake before him the fact that A$AP Rocky is prepared to play along with this game means that in my book he now has a big, black mark against his name.
Also while I'm here it appears that I'm being blocked on Twitter by Kerruche Tran following some comments I made about her lack of an invitation to the American Music Awards. I think this is a shame because the point I was trying to make it that I think she is talented enough to make it in the industry without having to sully herself by dating Chris Brown.
17:10 on 17/12/13 (UK date).
Edited at around 14:25 on 18/12/13 (UK date) to add;
Also on Monday it was announced that Rihanna is to be the face of the French fashion house Balmain's Spring/Summer 2014 advertising campaign. In itself this is great news because it shows that Rihanna's reputation is still strong enough to enhance high end brands.
The problem is that is was leaving this photoshoot last Thursday (12/12/13) that Rihanna was photographed sporting a new Zindzi Mandela style haircut. Along with Rihanna's use of a picture of Nelson Mandela as her Twitter avatar this was quite offensive because it placed extra pressure on the South Africans to find out what, if any, message Rihanna and the US were trying to send just as the South Africans were preparing for Nelson Mandela's logistically challenging funeral. To make matters worse this photoshoot was accompanied by rumours that US Vogue magazine is to fly Rihanna to World Cup host Brazil in January 2014 for a photoshoot that will also help reduce the pressure for a career ending South American leg of the Diamonds World Tour. That of course created speculation that the story of the Brazil trip was just a lie and the whole thing was being used as a coded reference to the Balmain photoshoot actually being a Vogue photoshoot.
Therefore I think the way that Balmain not only announced their Rihanna campaign on the next working day but also identified everybody involved the photoshoot suggests that they came under a lot of peer pressure to admit to their role. This is generally a bad thing for Rihanna because if every endorsement campaign she's involved in gets surrounded by this sort of controversy pretty soon the offers will stop coming in a Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) will have succeeded in destroying her career despite the best efforts of everybody.
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