Last night Rihanna performed in Dallas, Texas. As usual Rihanna's
CIA handlers/Live Nation (the management) provided absolutely no
official information about the concert and due to the fact the concert
only ended some three hours ago unofficial is strictly limited.
However I can tell that Rihanna performed the standard set-list with
standard costume changes and the standard stage set-up. Rihanna appeared
on stage within a hour of the scheduled start of her performance which
was late enough cause some excitement amongst the crowd but not late
enough for that excitement to turn into anger. Obviously having not seen
it I cannot personally comment on the strength of Rihanna's performance
but I gather that it was energetic and more then competent.
During the time surrounding Rihanna's concert there were no highly
illustrative shootings, fires, playing crashes or similar stunts from
the US. However rather then reflecting that the US is now going to be
behaving itself for the remaining three Diamonds World Tour concert this
seems to be the US thinking that the gossip from the concert itself
would be disruptive enough. Quite a few celebrities attended last
night's concerts most noticeably Drake who Rihanna used to be
romantically involved with. Rihanna is of course being supported on this
tour by A$AP Rocky who she has been rumoured to be romantically
involved in. Therefore the intention was to start the rumour that
Rihanna is having sex with either Drake or A$AP Rocky as I sit here and
type this.
Unfortunately though the reason why we know Drake attended the concert
is that lots of fellow concert goers spotted him as he was in the
audience rather then backstage. Also lots of people saw him partying at a
nightclub after the concert without Rihanna meaning that it is
extremely unlikely that he will be able to catch up with Rihanna's tour
bus as it heads to Oklahoma. As for the rumours of A$AP Rocky I've never
treated them with any degree of credibility. As such the small 4.8
magnitude earthquake that struck the Philippines shortly after the end
of Rihanna's concert seems to be the earth itself mocking the US by
making fun of the way we say the earth moves when people achieve orgasm.
All indications are that the US intends to press ahead regardless with
its Rihanna plan. On Friday (15/11/13) they are going to release the
video for the single "What Now." This is of course the video that
caused Rihanna to go on her controversial diversion to Thailand during
the South-East Asian leg of the tour. The release of the single is of
course supposed to pose the question of "What now for Rihanna?" The fact
the video is being released on the last day of the tour is just
toe-curlingly awful but then subtly and deftness of touch have not been
the hallmarks of this operation.
While I'm here I should also tidy up a little spat I had with Rihanna on
Sunday (10/11/13) when she noticed I'd favourited on Twitter a blogpost
comparing the Rihanna song "S.O.S" with the chemically-mediated
tritrophic interactions of the Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed. I should
point out that this was most probably written by an author trying to
inject humour into an otherwise quite dull subject. However I thought it
should be brought to Rihanna's attention in order to highlight exactly
what I mean when I say "coded discussions." After all that article was
quite vanilla by the usual standard.
(Originally Posted) 09:35 on 12/11/13 (UK date).
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