Just as I was going to bed on Monday (18/11/13) night paparazzi pictures
of Rihanna out and about in New York City started to emerged. Apart
from the new black bob Rihanna was wearing 1970's style black leather
flared trousers, a black leather 1970's style trenchcoat and let's just
say a black fabric T-shirt.
Some people have suggested that this made her look like Whitney Houston.
Although Whitney Houston did wear a similar style trenchcoat and
hairstyle in the video for one of her later singles I think the outfit
was mainly a reference to the uniform of the US Black Panther movement
of the 1960's and 1970's. Their agenda of black empowerment obviously
had huge resonance in the South African anti-apartheid movement which
under the leadership of Winnie Mandela at the time was not quite as warm
and cuddly as everybody likes to remember. As a result the black
leather trenchcoat sort of became a symbol of resistance across the
western world during what was really the golden age of international
terrorism.
There is also a widely held conspiracy theory that the CIA flooded the
US' black, urban population with cocaine and heroin in order to destroy
the Black Panther movement. Whitney Houston of course died after decades
of cocaine abuse and as I've been saying for a long time Rihanna's CIA
handlers/Live Nation (the management) have been trying to get Rihanna
hooked on cocaine in order to make sure she meets the same fate as
Whitney Houston. So while I can't help but be a little impressed by
Rihanna's choice of outfit it hardly fits with my recommendation that
she keeps a low profile politically.
While she was out and about in New York Rihanna made a point of making
sure that paparazzi saw her visiting a tattoo parlour where she picked
up some miscellaneous bits and pieces. The main purpose of the visit
though was to draw attention to the fact that Rihanna has started having
the early work done on her left hand for a tattoo similar to the cover
up job she recently had done on her right hand. The hope seems to be
that if the tattoos match it will make the right-handed tattoo look less
ugly. I obviously think that it will just make it doubly ugly.
Therefore Rihanna getting yet another tattoo could be interpreted as an
act of defiance of me and my views.
On Tuesday (19/11/13) there was further defiance with Melissa Forde
posting on Instagram/Twitter a picture of her sitting with her feet up
on a private jet eating popcorn. Obviously with no indication of where
she was headed or why a picture that simply indicates Rihanna's core
social group are on a plane causes more problems then it solves. I like
to think that the popcorn was intended to indicate that Forde was going
to enjoy sitting back and watching what management had assured her would
be a very stressful evening for me. I of course responded by mocking
her homosexuality.
A few hours later Rihanna posted a picture on Instagram only of her
herself together with Forde in what could be a hotel room or could be a
private jet. The picture claimed that the pair were in Detroit and the
flight times would broadly support that. The fact that Rihanna didn't
re-post that image on Twitter so I could see it immediately along with
her failure to offer any evidence to support the claim that she was in
Detroit could well be interpreted as further acts of defiance against
me.
We are of course still awaiting confirmation that Rihanna is indeed in
Detroit along with the bullsh*t excuse as to why she is in Detroit.
However the intention is to create speculation that Rihanna is in
Eminem's home town to work on the video for the song "The Monster." The
issue of whether the management have given Rihanna permission to work
with one of the Eminem's is of course a conversational mine field. There
is also hope that Rihanna's presence in Detroit will be viewed as
having some connection to the race issues brought up in the ongoing
Theodore Wafer/Renisha McBride case which is of course being further
complicated by the subsequent arrest of George Zimmerman.
Obviously I didn't find out about Rihanna's Instagram picture until
about four hours after it had happened. As a result I though it might
have had some bearing on my decision to ignore Tweets from both Cara
Delevinge and Chris Brown. As it turns it didn't and that's just sort of
what my brain does when I really should have gone to bed 20 minutes
earlier.
(Originally Posted) 12:00 on 20/11/13 (UK date).
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