Today Rihanna was scheduled to perform the first of two concerts in Sydney, Australia.
I'm assuming that this concert took place because Rihanna's CIA
handlers/Live Nation (the management) are still insisting on their
information blackout meaning that all the information I've had access to
are Twitter rumours of more London, UK concerts being added to the
Diamonds World Tour schedule. Those rumours are entirely false and seem
inteded just to stress me out. This lack of information forces me to
rely on the old shared consciousness thing which is hit and miss at the
best of times and certainly needs feeding to stay strong. Therefore I'm
pretty much just guessing when I say;
Rihanna took to the stage almost exactly on time in Sydney to perform
the standard set-list and costume changes. Rihanna's general mood and
therefore the effort she put into the performance were noticeably
improved from the Adelaide concerts making this the strongest
performance of this third and final leg of the tour so far. Hopefully
tomorrow's concert will be even stronger. However as always the set-list
for the concert is heavily dependent on the comparatively weak "Unapologetic" album meaning that the overall tone of the concert was rather subdued.
One possible explanation for Rihanna's improved performance is that she
did the sensible thing and flew from Adelaide to Sydney the day before
the concert giving Rihanna time to settle into the new city and prepare
herself for the concert. Although I don't have any details of the flight
times I hope this travel was scheduled to coincide with a period in
which Rihanna would be awake anyway in order to help her avoid the
psychological exhaustion that I am clearly suffering from. While this
type of exhaustion isn't a problem in itself this does create a weakness
which combined with things like poor reviews, bitter social media
arguments, atrocities like the Westgate Mall attack in Kenya and the
culture shock of travelling to places like Abu Dhabi in the United Arab
Emirates can become a significant problem.
Fortunately through things like the Federal Aviation Authority's (FAA)
consideration of new guidelines on the use of electronic equipment on
flights which made specific reference to things that Rihanna might enjoy
doing in-flight such as watching episodes of "Breaking Bad" the US
seems to be very publicly distancing itself from Rihanna's idiotic
schedule leaving her the freedom to follow a more sensible one.
Unfortunately though yesterday aside there is little evidence that
Rihanna and the management are following these new instructions and the
FAA guidance still prevents people from making calls/using the Internet
in flight indicating that the US is still trying to prevent Rihanna from
giving us a general view of her travel arrangements. That makes it all
to easy to conclude that the US is trying to be seen to say one thing in
public while doing the opposite in private in the hope that they can
claim any problems are beyond their control. After all with Azerbaijan
taking over the rotating Presidency of the United Nations Security
Council (UNSC) it's clear the US were hoping to use October to create
speculation about Rihanna's welfare and whether she is on course for
another Azerbaijan style meltdown. Also forcing Rihanna to search the
headlines for all these secret signs and symbols is only likely to add
to her stress levels.
I do though severely hope that the US have now genuinely abandoned that
plan because as I've said the people they are trying to fool are the
people who read daily reports on the situation in Syria and events like
the Westgate Mall attack. Therefore the prospect of Rihanna having a bit
of a tough time is not likely to shock them. It is though likely to be
just enough to remind them just how unpleasant the US can be and make
the US look very weak because it appears to be attacking Rihanna in
order to apologise to the Gulf Monarchies whilst at the same time doing
everything the Gulf Monarchies ask of it. Also nations like the UK are
still very firmly briefing against the US on the Rihanna issue. Not only
is the Coroners Inquest into the death of Mark Duggan which is likely
to absolve Rihanna of any responsibility for the UK's August 2011 riots
ongoing but yesterday there was the sentencing of Phillip Simelane a
poorly managed criminal with severe psychological problems (Chris Brown)
who went on to murder an innocent girl (Rihanna) on a bus in Birmingham
Overall though I hope the US have abandoned their plan because it seems
that no matter what they try it is bound to fail. After all while I
don't have any special information about Rihanna she seems to be in a
much better mood and stronger frame of mind then she was even a few
weeks ago.
(Originally Posted) 15:15 on 3/1/0/13 (UK date).
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