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Celeb News: Has Rihanna's image reached a dangerous level?
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Originally posted by Nicole
What's so "dangerous" about her image? A few skimpy outfits and suggestive lyrics is well within the safe confines of how popstars use sex to sell, but don't cross the line so as not to offend.
Rihanna's label will never allow her to do something like this:
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Who the hell is ..
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Member Since: 10/19/2010
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Originally posted by K@rm@
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i hope she tones it down honestly, especially live, smh
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Member Since: 6/9/2011
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Originally posted by Nɑɑji.. ©
Ki @ Rihanna stans thinking she is the black Madonna.. this is disrespectful on so many levels.
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lol it brings them validation by putting someone like Rihanna on the same level as Madonna. 
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Member Since: 5/4/2011
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Originally posted by i spit on haters
I don't care enough to read all of that but the title says more than enough and sums the question up, key word: her IMAGE and that's all it is, it's apart of her manufactured image. She just comes off desperately contrived to do anything to garner attention, but failing miserably.
And she is not the "black Madonna" -- the **** Rihanna is doing is PG-13 compared to what Madonna has done, let's not even compare the two.  |
And that is why someone made an article devoted to her image. You're so right, the attention is nowhere near Rihanna.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by K@rm@
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 at the guy in the back with the camera phone
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Member Since: 8/26/2011
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Originally posted by K@rm@
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I wanna take that pic 
Anyway , For me the ****anna is not something soo special  ( Damn you chris brown !  )
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Member Since: 6/9/2011
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Originally posted by Nicole
What's so "dangerous" about her image? A few skimpy outfits and suggestive lyrics is well within the safe confines of how popstars use sex to sell, but don't cross the line so as not to offend.
Rihanna's label will never allow her to do something like this:
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lol thank you.
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Member Since: 11/24/2009
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Originally posted by Mani
Who the hell is ..
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The other woman being mentioned in this thread: Madonna.
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Member Since: 9/13/2011
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Originally posted by K@rm@
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Member Since: 6/10/2009
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Ummm she's been wearing that outfit the whole tour. NOW its a problem???
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Member Since: 5/4/2011
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Originally posted by YaBoiJay18
You and these damn articles. I'm sure her album thread "Take Out The Trash" could use the views.
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Its nice to see how many views you actually give Rihanna's threads. 
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Member Since: 6/9/2011
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Originally posted by JungleDisturbia
And that is why someone made an article devoted to her image. You're so right, the attention is nowhere near Rihanna.
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lol mo'****ers are dense as hell today, a minor article that will be ignored by the masses isn't **** compared to the level of media attention Madonna received for her controversial stunts, that's what I'm talking about because stans are implying she's "The black Madonna" HENCE why I said the **** Rihanna is doing on stage is PG-13 compared to what Madonna has done, if you didn't fully get it by now then don't reply back to me.
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Member Since: 10/19/2010
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Originally posted by i spit on haters
lol mo'****ers are dense as hell today, a minor article that will be ignored by the masses isn't **** compared to the level of media attention Madonna received for her controversial stunts, that's what I'm talking about because stans are implying she's "The black Madonna" HENCE why I said the **** Rihanna is doing on stage is PG-13 compared to what Madonna has done, if you didn't fully get it by now then don't reply back to me.
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you come in every Rihanna thread and turn it in a stan war for **** sake! You should be banned, i am sick and tired of it
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Member Since: 9/17/2011
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She been wearing that same outfit for the whole tour lol anyways she doesn't show anymore more or less skin than any other big name popstar (Gaga, Brittany, Beyonce) 
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Originally posted by K@rm@
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Originally posted by i spit on haters
lol it brings them validation by putting someone like Rihanna on the same level as Madonna. |
Don't ya'll do the same tho?
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Member Since: 9/13/2011
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Originally posted by RihRihGirrrl
She been wearing that same outfit for the whole tour lol anyways she doesn't show anymore more or less skin than any other big name popstar (Gaga, Brittany, Beyonce) |
True. But U rarely see Gaga or Beyonce bend over and **** their legs open for the world to see..... Rihanna should just turn it down a bit.
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Member Since: 2/18/2010
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She needs to tone it down a little bit.
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Originally posted by JungleDisturbia
Its nice to see how many views you actually give Rihanna's threads. |
I haven't gave a view to the Loud thread nor the Talk That **** thread.
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Member Since: 3/16/2011
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Originally posted by IWasHere
True. But U rarely see Gaga or Beyonce bend over and **** their legs open for the world to see..... Rihanna should just turn it down a bit.
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Beyonce, Britney and Gaga do it.
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Member Since: 10/19/2010
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Women’s Ass sizes study (#4): Rihanna’s rough and ready ruse
Norwich : United Kingdom | Oct 06, 2011 at 9:41 AM PDT BY Junior Campbell 10 VIEWS: 62
I am pleased to announce that I have finally up-dated the “Lewd Logic” extracts on my website, adding the “Botsie Cosmology” chapter and other portions of the book that I promised.
It was quite interesting re-reading what I wrote more than ten years ago on the controversial subject of Barbadians’ lewd dancing during Crop Over and other seasons of merriment.
Since then the pop star Rihanna has come on the scene with her peculiar Bajan-Caribbean blend of refined and sexually suggestive routines – a bit like Barbra Streisand meets Lady Saw really.
The Barbadian star was voted the 'Best International Act' at the MOBO awards in Glasgow last night, a tribute, I think, to her current status as a trendsetter on the international stage. Thanks to her, arguably, there has been a distinctive infusion of Caribbean rhythmic and lyrical content to mainstream pop artists’ output this year. A number of them seem to be “going native”.
I first noticed it with Nicole Scherzinger’s current hit “Right There”. “Me like the way that you hold my body. Me like the way that you touch my body.” croons the Hawaiian-born hottie in the opening lines of that song.
I don’t remember where I first heard it – it might have been when Scherzinger performed on Alan Carr’s channel 4 show. Whenever it was, it seemed blatantly obvious to me that she was exploiting Rihanna’s island girl iconography.
Yet compared with Robyn Rihanna Fenty’s forthright use of Bajanisms in her debut hit single “Pon De Replay”, the use of a third world island lingo by Sherzinger seems contrived; affected.
That is no doubt the case because until now Sherzinger has stuck steadfastly to a continental American English dialect – as in her Pussycat Dolls days smash hit “Don’t Cha”.
Rihanna on the other hand, was tastefully flouting Standard English norms with Barbadian lip from the outset: “Pon de replay” is easily recognizable to Barbadians as a consonantal construction we use every day. Bajans typically drop the “U” in “upon” and contract the “th” in “the” to produce a “d” sound.
Interestingly, she has been rather subtle about this. She has not over-done the Bajan lingo thing, but rather blended her island linguistic idiosyncrasies with more Standard English, especially American, language usage.
And it has worked wonders for her. As her official fan club website www.rihanna daily.com notes, she has reached 20 top 10s “in a span of just six years and four months, besting Madonna for the quickest collection of top 10s among soloists” in the Hot 100 chart’s 53-year history. It took Madonna 6 years and 9 months to do the same, the website claims.
Its not only Scherzinger that may be interpreted as jumping on the jolly islander bandwagon though. The exquisitely gorgeous Jennifer Lopez (do you detect my bias, my near gushing) exemplifies creole feminine finesse in “I’m into you”.
There’s no Caribbean English in Lopez’s lyrics, but the Puerto Rican pearl’s party tune sits on a reggae rhythm “like a lizard pon a limb” – as Jamaica’s DJ Tiger would say.
And speaking of reggae: in “Man Down” Rihanna certainly reflects the darkest dimensions of the culture around that music.
And the rape revenge motif, apparent only after one watches the music video accompanying this song, only relieves the darkness partially.
In Lewd Logic I attempt to engage with that darkness proactively.
Rather than simplistic pronouncements about Jamaican and wider Caribbean culture – the kind of racist and related folly in which British historian James Starkey indulged following the recent UK rioting – I attempt a more holistic, redemptive cultural analysis of the “islands in between”.
I hope Rihanna and other Caribbean and international artists will give my thoughts a read.
In explaining her use of the “C” word recently, the star said that like her on stage persona, her use of that term is something of a ruse, rooted in the relatively innocuous use of the term by Barbadians.
She probably exaggerated the use of the “c_nt” in Barbados. I suspect it may be more widespread among white Barbadians than blacks.
The key point though is that her explanation of her use of it to British Vogue recently highlights the crux of my argument in Lewd Logic: the issue of local knowledge and cultural specificity as markers or measurements of morality.
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http://www.allvoices.com/contributed...and-ready-ruse
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