Sadly there seems little point me dreaming up a new post title.
Following a week long stop in New York City, US Rihanna has returned to Los Angeles, California, US following her little adventure in Europe that involved Paris Fashion Week and a few concerts on Drake's "Stayed There" tour. Obviously throughout this - and most of the time I've been watching - Rihanna has found a way to convince herself that she's really clever, we're really stupid and this has been an absolutely brilliant idea. Now everybody has had a moment to step back and consider the evidence it has become much harder for Rihanna to support that position. As a result we are now in something of an emotionally unsettling period for Rihanna.
On Saturday (22/3/14) Rihanna took to Twitter/Instagram to promote the upcoming "Monster" mini-tour she is doing in August alongside Eminem. Part of this involved a short video featuring a relatively famous clip from the US show "Teen Mom 2" in which the star "Jenelle Evans" behaved like a spoilt little brat by telling her lawyer that she couldn't attend a Court date because she wanted to go to a Kesha concert. The video then cut to footage of Rihanna being introduced as a guest on the UK version of the show "X-Factor." The idea being to give the impression that Jenelle Evans really wanted to go to the Rihanna and Eminem concerts.
Taken at face value this video could be interpreted as Rihanna using comedy to promote the Monster mini-tour while having a dig at Kesha. After all there has been some tension between the two dating back to at least October 2012 when Kesha falsely claimed that Rihanna would be featuring on her new album.
However the video could also be interpreted as Rihanna highlighting how stupid and arrogant she had been to join Drake on his tour in a sort of apology. Obviously in those circumstances the lawyer featured in the video would be the lawyer (wrongly) advising Rihanna that if she didn't join up with Drake she would lose her case against Berdon LLP.
Finally the video could be interpreted as Rihanna trashing the Monster mini-tour by making fun of it and hinting that she'd rather not bother.
Clearly I hope that the second interpretation was the one that Rihanna was aiming for. However even if that is the case then Rihanna is certainly not helping her cause through the lack of clarity. Instead it would be much better for Rihanna to put out a statement making clear that her relationship with Drake was faked in order to help boost ticket sales for Drakes concerts. Rihanna would then apologise for misleading her fans and assuring them that it won't happen again. If that is too difficult perhaps Rihanna would like to add her name to this statement by simply favouriting the Tweet. After all that has got to be preferable to allowing the Drake debacle to taint the Monster mini-tour which has probably got to be the only sensible thing Rihanna's signed up to all year.
While I'm on the subject since Rihanna's departure from Drake's tour the UK has been making a lot of noise about the Naomi Oni acid attack case. When this story initially broke in January 2013 it was a UK response to a Russian story about a similar acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet. That was obviously Russia warning the US that there was no point continuing with the Rihanna operation. Through the Oni case the UK was also attempting to add an element of Islamic extremism in Nigeria to the discussion.
However as the Oni case has progressed through the arrest, trial and conviction of the attacker it has emerged that Oni was attacked by one of her close female friends over some trivial and childish argument. As such through the fresh publicity the UK is trying to promote discussion about the fact that while members of Rihanna's core social group may make for great personal friends they are not the sort of people Rihanna should be taking career advice from. Leandra (@leleboo246) seems to be coming under specific focus.
13:25 on 24/3/14 (UK date).
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