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Celeb News: Israel to sue Rihanna, furious about her concert
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Israel to sue Rihanna, furious about her concert
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Empty packaging: Rihanna disappoints in Tel Aviv
Megastar sang only when she felt like it, otherwise letting recordings and background vocals take over while she twerked in slow motion
The guy next to me was happy. The last time he was in the Golden Ring (the area close to the stage), during a Madonna concert, everyone around him was gay, and he, the only straight guy, was apparently also the only fat guy among a crowd of hunks. Last night at the Rihanna concert, by contrast, the atmosphere was that of a family vacation in Eilat.
After a warm-up act by the DJ duo GTA, which managed to horrify the crowd with contemporary covers of Ibiza hits from the '90s, came a long wait. Even the Rihanna-style letter "R," protruding from a crown worn by one of her more serious fans, began looking like a flower wilting in the sun. It was 10 P.M., after people started booing, by the time Rihanna came onstage.
She opened with "Phresh Out the Runway" in a rave rock sound, accompanied by live musicians and electronic playback. From time to time she sighed "Tel Aviv," sounding a bit like a temptress and a bit like a singer trying to recall what city she was in this night. When she reached "Talk That Talk," it became obvious that "live" was not the most appropriate adjective for this show. From here on Rihanna sang only when she felt like it, complemented the rest of the time by her own recorded self and background vocals. Instead of singing she preferred twerking in slow motion, her legs spread, though mostly she seemed exhausted and functioning on automatic pilot. Her band, which introduced an aggressive rock edge into some of the songs, and the singer-dancer ensemble that accompanied her, did work hard, though, to enliven the atmosphere on stage.
Unease in crowd becomes palpable
When she began singing "Numb," which she had originally performed with Eminem, the surrounding screens filled with images of the singer shrouded in smoke while the guitarist on stage played a Guns-N'-Roses-style solo. Onstage, flames of fire blazed and Rihanna held her crotch in a scene recalling a ritual ceremony by an ancient priestess, but in a variant adapted to the consumer culture.
"You Da One" was sung as a solo, while "Man Down" opened with reggae sounds and the words "Wanted by the FBI" appearing on the screens alongside police mug shots of the singer. At this point people began wondering, "Isn't she going to sing?" When the next song was also "performed" by Rihanna's recorded voice, the sense of unease among fans who had paid hundreds of shekels per ticket, if not more, became palpable.
Rihanna asked the crowd if they wanted to fool around with her, before singing the anthem that took the fun out of sadism, "S&M." While she was singing about her love of whips and chains and the smell of sex in the air, a mom in the crowd raised her redhead boy to her shoulders so he could see better and joined Rihanna in the chorus.
Later the megastar moved on to the sing-along stage with her biggest hit, "Umbrella." The audience woke up, cooperated and even opened some umbrellas. The last part was more like a party, including medleys of some of Rihanna's favorite hits familiar from countless Israeli weddings, which perked up the crowd, and the song "Diamonds," which managed to obliterate whatever sparkle the concert might have offered.
The crowd's behavior at the end of the encore reflected the shallowness of the Hayarkon Park experience. It did not pause for a minute, as sometimes happens after a good show, but rather descended wildly on the exits in a futile attempt to avoid heavy traffic. The shortened concert (compared to the other concerts on the current tour), the late start, the unchanged outfit (the audience missed, for example, a particularly symbolic moment in which Rihanna wears a dress made of dollar bills) – all these, in addition to Rihanna's unwillingness or inability to sing a large portion of the songs, turned what should have been a spectacle of the most successful performer in the world today, into that of a young singer unable to fulfill the requirements of an industry that employs her services. The tens of thousands of fans who came to see her did not get what was promised. Nothing but packaging, and mostly a fascinating glimpse of the great emptiness behind it.
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http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-...emium-1.554018
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Rihanna concert falls flat in Tel Aviv
Rihanna's highly publicized concert in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park receives mostly negative reviews • Haaretz English website retracts false report that Rihanna put the words "All I see is Palestine" into her song "Pour it Up.
Her late arrival, scornful attitude and shortened concert featuring off-key singing, playbacks, a small stage, modest production values, a small number of dancers, and amateurish video clips were just some of the complaints leveled at pop star Rihanna over her performance in Israel on Tuesday.
Bluestone Productions, the producers of the show, issued a statement in response: "We thank Rihanna, the world's most popular international pop star, for adding Israel to her world tour and coming here for a full show, and disregarding calls to boycott Israel.
"We would like to point out that in terms of the Israeli production of Rihanna's performance, we gave the best possible service to the Israeli public: security, parking, directions, the stage, the sound, and everything that the Israeli production team was responsible for was superb.
"Unfortunately, the international singer was late for her performance. We are sorry about this, but the Israeli production team has nothing to do with this lateness. We would like to stress that despite the lateness, 50,000 Israelis got a show the likes of which hasn't been seen in Israel. We understand that some people were not satisfied, but in our opinion the overwhelming majority of the audience enjoyed themselves very much."
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http://www.israelhayom.com/site/news...e.php?id=12831
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Rihanna’s Diamonds shine a lot less brightly than expected
What she did play in Tel Aviv was terrific, but it was too little, because she started too late
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http://www.timesofisrael.com/rihanna...than-expected/
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The Rihanna Israel-Palestine controversy that never really happened
U.S.-based Barbadian pop star Rihanna's big concert in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv had one very brief, strangely political moment. When performing the song "Pour it Up," according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, she substituted the lyric "All I see is dollar signs" with the phrase "All I see is Palestine."
The switch-up generated controversy and discussion on the Israeli Web and in some segments of the Arab press. It was picked up by lots of American aggregators. The choice of words seemed not just political but deeply provocative.
Except it turns out that it didn't really happen.
First, here's why it was controversial. It wasn't clear whether the lyric was meant as simply a generic nod to Palestinians, perhaps a subtle suggestion that Rihanna's audience of some 50,000 think about the Palestinian territories and Israeli policy toward them, or whether it meant something more.
Much of the online discussion focused on the fact that Rihanna apparently did not say the word "Israel" during her performance and had come under pressure to cancel her show from some pro-Palestinian groups that support boycotting Israel. In singing "all I see is Palestine" in the middle of Tel Aviv, was Rihanna suggesting that the city should be considered not part of Israel, but part of a single Palestinian state? Didn't that sound uncomfortably close to the rhetoric of anti-Israeli groups that insist the entire country is illegitimate and should be dissolved?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ally-happened/
It doesn't say here it in the article, but apparently concert goes are planning to sue Rihanna / the Israeli team that brought her
Overracting much?
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NNNNNNN They wanna sue her for that?!
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So bad live she's getting sued
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Israel is so damn pressed over everything, **** them tbh!
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She's not getting sued and clearly, the man has no idea what he's talking about if he's still referencing the dress made out of money. She changes her outfits constantly throughout the tour. Flop review.
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Her late arrival, scornful attitude and shortened concert featuring off-key singing, playbacks, a small stage, modest production values, a small number of dancers, and amateurish video clips were just some of the complaints leveled at pop star Rihanna over her performance in Israel on Tuesday.
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SUMS UP Rihanna's ENTIRE CAREER
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At this point people should've lowered their expectations with Rih her concerts.
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She opened with "Phresh Out the Runway" in a rave rock sound, accompanied by live musicians and electronic playback. From time to time she sighed "Tel Aviv," sounding a bit like a temptress and a bit like a singer trying to recall what city she was in this night. When she reached "Talk That Talk," it became obvious that "live" was not the most appropriate adjective for this show. From here on Rihanna sang only when she felt like it, complemented the rest of the time by her own recorded self and background vocals. Instead of singing she preferred twerking in slow motion, her legs spread, though mostly she seemed exhausted and functioning on automatic pilot. Her band, which introduced an aggressive rock edge into some of the songs, and the singer-dancer ensemble that accompanied her, did work hard, though, to enliven the atmosphere on stage.
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Sorry, but this is very accurate... tho they do sound a bit pressed.
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Israel giiving me Australia teas
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Not her getting sued by countries when we have bitches wearing moustaches to get attention
Yasssssss queen!!
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Originally posted by Rigalo
So bad live she's getting sued
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I'm f***ing screaming
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I would too.
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The joke is on them for spending money to see her perform live.
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Mess. Rihanna better be on her best behavior on November 15th when I see her. In New Orleans, they won't sue. They'll just shoot ya ass.
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I lost it on the first sentence.
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while she twerked in slow motion
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She seriously needs to stop being late like it was annoying the first time
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Lol does every pop star sing all there songs to completion
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