[LoveLiveMusic]

They should be happy they got Madonna to end/start with the two biggest female tours in history.

[lostinparadise]

yas. probably the raunchiest outfit on the entire tour (festival wise).

[Belgium]

Is Rihanna's show in Dominican Republic SOLD OUT?

[Indigo Blue]

That devilish crown she wore is cute

[rihannafan]

Are people really trying to involve Rihanna in middle-eastern political issues?

[RudeBoyy]

Originally posted by Belgium

Is Rihanna's show in Dominican Republic SOLD OUT?

It's one of her smallest shows so probably.

[rihannafan]

Rihanna making all of Israel fume. I just love her so much

[Яeo.]

Originally posted by rihannafan

Rihanna making all of Israel fume. I just love her so much

She really is

[Rihhyonce]

Originally posted by Indigo Blue

That devilish crown she wore is cute

Only the Princess of the Illuminati.

[sivan5353]

Originally posted by Яeo.

Israel is upset.

No one here actually cared about her saying only Tel Aviv and not Israel.... They care about the other stuff..

[Chrome]

Fff @ saying "Tel Aviv" the whole time.

The queen knows the true tea.

[Яeo.]

They're really tearing her apart in the media;

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."

[Яeo.]

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?

If these sound like overwrought questions to you, then it turns out that you are correct. Simone Wilson, a writer at the site JewishJournal.com who has been impressively persistent in covering this story, got ahold of a cellphone video recorded by a fan at the concert. And it turns out, as best one can tell from watching the video, that Rihanna used the normal lyrics. She didn't mention Palestine at all. Wilson also noted that a Jerusalem Post reporter had expressed earlier skepticism about the controversial lyrics, pointing out that no other Israeli journalist at the concert had heard "all I see is Palestine."
The whole episode was pretty silly. So why are you reading about it? Because this is a reminder of how remarkably sensitive the politics of the Israel-Palestinian conflict can get, and indeed always are. The mere hint of a one-word political statement by a 25-year-old Barbadian pop star, during a highly non-political event, was enough to generate controversy and debate in multiple countries.
The fight over symbolism can sometimes feel almost as vicious as the fight for territory; recall the endless rounds of controversy and allegation and conspiracy-theorizing over the photos of children who were killed or wounded during the November clashes between Israel and Gaza. The difference, of course, is that what Rihanna said, or in this case didn't say, is of next-to-zero actual significance. What is of significance is that both parties to the Israel-Palestinian conflict are so primed for controversy and outrage, so hawkishly ever-alert for the slightest indication of someone taking sides, that this incident would become a story at all.

[Яeo.]

"No one was more disappointed than me," said Efrat Wachtel, 30, from Tel Aviv, who had bought a ticket on the grass. "I am a huge Rihanna fan. I am also a dancer and I love her style, so I waited a long time for this concert. I came to see a performance and it just wasn't that. When I come to a Rihanna concert, what I really want to see are costume changes. I want it to dazzle me, hold my interest, and none of that happened.

"I expected to see rain falling on her, or see her descend on a swing, or to get tied up in chains, or open an umbrella and start dancing. But in fact, aside from changing shoes, she did nothing. She definitely knows how to move, but that gets old after one song. She didn't even present the people who were with her on stage. The audience could sense and smell the scorn."

"I have been to many concerts and even to a Rihanna concert in New York," says Ilanit Hazan, 30, from Tel Aviv, who received a ticket as a gift.

"Even when I sat far away I could see the screens very well. But those standing on the grass had trouble seeing. At Madonna's last concert there was a 180-degree stage. If I had paid for my own ticket, I would have been seriously disappointed. Even the line-up was weird. Songs I was waiting for didn't get sung, There were entire parts of the concert where I felt I was watching a DVD."

"In a single word: shame," Karina Gruper wrote on Facebook. "Mega concerts should be performed by real stars. I have been to every single possible concert in the last 20 years and this was the worst."

[FatShady]

who cares we'll talk about this for 2 days and then never again. ride the wave. on to the next show.

[Travextina]

Australia Boxscore

[BajanBeauty]

Originally posted by Travextina

Australia Boxscore

Where did you find this?

[Indigo Blue]

Originally posted by Travextina

Australia Boxscore

Legit?

[PhreshIn]

Originally posted by Travextina

Australia Boxscore

Where did you got those Boxscores ?

@the Halloween duca

[Travextina]

Pollstar scan.