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.
(Originally Posted on 17/12/13)
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