Do I Really Need to Explain This?

It's just somewhere between the soccer references and the evening getting really weird I'm pretty sure I picked up a genuine emotional response from Rihanna. Anyway though after being made to look very weak by the Syria situation the US has been coming under a lot of pressure to grant Iran a top level meeting with Iran at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Obviously doing this would make the US appear even weaker so they've been pulling out all the stops to prevent that meeting taking place.

A large part of that effort involved offering Iran a meeting with Obama at a luncheon that just happened to coincide with my traditional Tuesday night visit to the pub. In order to further pile of the pressure the US also got Rihanna to pick a fight with someone called Teyana Taylor. Although I don't know the full story Taylor is part of that Los Angeles social scene that includes Rihanna, Chris Brown and Kerruche Tran. Taylor also claims to be a singer and is signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D record label although I don't think she's got to the point where she's actually released anything. So by starting this argument Taylor brought in all the issues of the LA social scene which the US was already pushing to the fore through the start of closing arguments in the Micheal Jackson wrongful death suit. It also brought in the issues of Internet trolls and the power celebrities can exert over their fans. As the argument appeared to be being conducted across both Twitter and Instagram it also raised issues of who was able to see what and the long running feud between the two social media platforms. The argument also caused worries that the stress and hostility of the argument was keeping Rihanna up at night making her more vulnerable to attack as this final leg of the tour progresses. Finally the argument raised questions about Twitters practise of verifying certain accounts because it feels wrong to me that someone as irrelevant at Teyana Taylor has a verified account while the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations and current President of the Security Council does not.

Anyway I just joined in because I was a bit drunk and I don't know about you but I happen to think that a bit of good natured mucking about is what has really been lacking from Rihanna's tour recently.

(Originally Posted) 11:00 on 25/9/13.