What would Rihanna do without her songwriters? They are way more talented than her.
Even if Rihanna doesn't love that she would only tell Jay Brown to talk to her. But everything in private and not publicly. That's all she can do.
I guess you have a point. But she has to know that Alicia is doing this. Leads me to believe that she's either egging them on, or that (as unlikely as it seems to me) maybe something actually IS coming.