Rihanna – you love her, you hate her, one might say she’s like Marmite, but everyone definitely has an opinion on her. Personally, I love her music (ahem guilty pleasure I know), but who can resist shaking yo booty to her bouncin pop-tastic tuuuunes? S&M being a personal favourite of mine – less of that in the McGinn household though after hearing youngest McGinn singing along to it not so long ago. Readers do not worry, she inserts “sleep” into words she knows are rude eg “ Sleep in the air”, or “Sleep in the City”. Which, in a roundabout way, brings me to my point. With the majority of RiRi’s fans being of the younger, impressionable age, should she cool the jets a bit with her increasingly provocative behaviour and dress?
Shocking...and yet...YAWN
Rihanna eats banana suggestively. Carmen Miranda was just suggestive. See the difference?
In Glamour’s up and coming September issue, Rihanna talks about her life as a role model;
“I feel like pop stars can’t be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art,”.
Cavorting. Blah
Good jaysus girl, you have literally killed him
Hmmm, I think Rihanna may need a lesson in the differences between a pop and rock star. The common meaning of pop music is music that is of general appeal – mainly to the youth market, therefore appropriate to this demographic. In the world of celebrity you will be looked upon as a role model in your chosen path of fame, which has always been the case, so it is beyond naive to ride on the coat-tails of the tweens (and their parents forking out for the music and concerts on your way to the top) and then when you’ve made it, dismiss their loyalty and commitment to your brand with a swish of your barely clad buttock. When Rihanna was starting off she was another innocent popstrel that the tweens could “identify” with; fast forward multiple hit records (as voted for by the fans), far less clothes and Rihanna says she’s sick of people looking up to her as a role model, she’s an independent woman that can do as she wants and dress as she wants…regardless of the effect its having on her fans? I, for one, am sick of seeing her crotch-grabbing, faux-sexual, OTT, ramped up stage performances. And I ain’t no prude. Rira is almost asexual to me now; all that empty suggestion and look-at-me for the cameras. Put some freakin’ clothes back on girl and stop getting up in my grille. I don’t mean to be all Daily Mail, but seriously, would it kill her to tone it down a little?
Ah wouldja just put it away luv?
Pics courtesy of DailyMail.co.uk (ha!)
