Many girls and boys of all ages all over the world are Rihanna fanatics who adore her sense of music and style.
As bias as it may be, I personally I do not like her. What bothers me is her changeover from Caribbean sweetheart to the confident town slut who releases a good song every now and then.
Even when Rihanna was playing as ‘the sweetheart’, I was never too keen for her music – or voice for that matter. When I did a little research on where she came from and how she became a star it bedazzled me to find a clip of her singing terribly out of tune in a talent contest, yet here she is, one of the biggest female stars of today.
Although we saw snippets of her growing confidence and increased sexual content in her music videos through her early years, it seems that even before her break up with Chris Brown had her image and personality turned from this ‘angel’ to a dirty weed-smoking icon who kids look up to.
The Disturbia video was indeed disturbing but was there really any need for the sort of bondage type of activity of her sexually portraying herself to be some sort of possessed animal? Not really. There is a line. She crossed it long ago. As did many others however these hold stories for another day (ahem Lady GaGa!).
Now not saying she is the only culprit, but there must be someone who is behind the allowance of these videos. Being distributed to the public, -which include adolescent male (who may expect to seek this in a female companion), young children (who will find this as normal behaviour growing up), and of course (not parents) but the dirty perverted generation of men out there (who get pleasure out of watching this kind of entertainment which is broadcasted in daylight for the normal modern times who may find in themselves a horniness or arousal which leads to all other sorts of tragedies), - this type of music video has a lot to be blamed for in relation to having a pleasant society.
Rihanna is under management who help her increase her stardom, but she does have a voice to say when enough is enough – remember that time she got told off for wearing just a bra while shooting the video in that farmer’s field? Yes, completely unacceptable. And as the gossipy magazines may disagree and find the farmer to be an old codger of ill tastes, is he really? Or does he just think that girls should be respecting themselves a bit better in this day and age?
For someone who can’t sing that well, how do they get famous in the first place? (TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF!) Secondly, using her ‘S&M’ song lyrics and video as an example, why allow children to hear and see such nonsense? And thirdly, why do the big shot managers of the music industry encourage the incorporation of sexual behaviour in every possible way? Lastly, why do we allow it?
There are a majority who feel uncomfortable with what is shown on music videos so widely available to public sight, but nothing is ever done about it. There are of course restrictions but that will never be enough to stop the cause of a disturbance or media attracting behaviour within some of these music videos.
Apparently, if we continue to believe everything that the media shows us, we will all be dancing around in next to nothing, acting rowdy and slutty, and will all become ‘bad girls’ or ‘bad boys’. Not a healthy society.
But on that note, here is a song I quite like from her, excluding the smoky drug-infused love affair video, getting high with her lover, legs a-spread, to be left quivering in a corner bottom-naked at the end… "We Found Love" featuring Calvin Harris.
