Following her concert in Singapore yesterday Rihanna did indeed travel
overnight to Australia. This was rather easy to predict because Rihanna
is scheduled to perform again in Perth, Australia at roughly this time
tomorrow meaning that to travel anywhere else would be completely
pointless.
Also it is extremely unlikely that Rihanna or anybody else would be able
to fly into any South-East Asian country at the moment because Typhoon
Usagi is currently slamming into China and the Philippines. The purpose
of scheduling the South-East Asian leg of Rihanna's tour for typhoon
season was of course to get climate scientists arguing whether Rihanna's
moods and menstrual cycle are somehow affecting the typhoons. This does
not bode well for November's COP19/CMP9 climate change conference.
Finally the authorities in Thailand have arrested two people for
endangering wildlife after Rihanna shared Twitter/Instagram pictures of
herself with a Slow Loris during Friday's (20/9/13) designated Twitter
time. This is the Thai authorites again aggressively trying to distance
themselves from the whole operation. So while I doubt they'd actually
formally refuse entry if Rihanna were to attempt to visit Thailand again
in the near future the Thai authorites would likely protest loudly.
The only problem with the timing of Rihanna's journey to Australia was
that it coincided with Emmy Awards which were taking place in Los
Angeles, US. Although the Emmy Awards are for TV Shows rather then the
music industry and not all famous people know each other a lot of the
people attending the awards make up the community that has been charged
with containing the threat that Chris Brown presents to Rihanna now that
the LA Courts have abdicated their responsibilty to do so. As a result
rumours about Rihanna's travel plans would have had an unsettling effect
on some of those attending the Emmys. For example the wobbly second
season of the show "Scandal" is full of little Rihanna references. This
tension has the knock on effect that people watching the Emmys may well
have been doing so looking out for clues to Rihanna's whereabouts.
Fortunately though it only took a little bit of prodding with coded
references to Australian locations to get Rihanna to more or less
confirm she had arrived at pretty much the moment it happened.
The advantage of Rihanna being in Australia is that a lot of the
pressure on her to confirm her movements hase lifted. Although over the
next two weeks Rihanna will have to fly between the different cities in
Australia and Auckland which I'm temporarily designating as an
Australian city these are all internal flights that don't involve custom
posts with the trip to New Zealand being the obvious exception. Also
information about Rihanna's movements should flow pretty smoothly on
Australia's local grapevine. Therefore Rihanna only needs to report
within 1 to 2 hours of departure or arrival to keep the outside world
happy. I am though a little bit concerned about when these flights will
take place. That's because if Rihanna is being forced to catch planes
when she would normally be sleeping it's going to play havoc with her
sleep patterns. If the Australians are forced to do their worst this can
quite quickly add up into a serious problem. Therefore I would advise
that Rihanna's travel is scheduled to coincide with times that she would
normally be on stage.
As for the concerts themselves Rihanna's CIA handlers/Live Nation (the
management) are still under their obligation to keep Rihanna's
performances as non-political as possible and provide nessecery
information about set-lists, actual show times and limited video in a
timely manner. However if the management fail to meet their obligations
the relative wealth of Australians and the fact they speak English means
that unofficial information shouldn't be too hard to come by.
Finally I've been hearing that Rihanna's been coming in for a lot of
criticism over her concert in Singapore. Therefore I should point out
that on this tour Rihanna actually has very little say over her
set-list, the outfits she wears and the information that is made
availible about her concerts with the management making all the
decisions. When it comes to things she can control I'm finding that
Rihanna could not be more helpful in what is a difficult situation.
Rihanna's core tour party could do with making more of an effort
though.
(Originally Posted) 14:46 on 23/9/13 (UK date).
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