Let’s Get This Over With
I already know I’m going to be asked, so yes, I heard the new songs from the fake ass Bobby and Whitney. Eh, each song is okay on its own merit, though it’s obvious the intent behind the releases is more important to them than the songs themselves. I don’t have a lengthy self-righteous rant about what an awful message this sends to unleash. We’ll have enough of those coming in the days ahead. Bottom line: She knows that there’s a message she’s sending with this and she doesn’t care. That is her right, though, but whatever consequences come are well deserved.
What I will say in the meantime is that I increasingly see what Ike and Tina Two have in common. Both act like obnoxious ass teenagers starved for attention. I suppose you could make the case as to how this all shows the power of forgiveness, but given the circumstances you’d think the two might have tried to discuss their past issues in better detail and of more depth with the public before dropping new material. You know, just in case some take issue with the idea of the woman who got the shit beat out of her by some bratty man child releasing a sexually explicit song featuring him.
Just a thought is all.
A lot of you laptop label heads are already toting their success because of the controversy their collaborations will secure. I gather that’s ’cause still folks believe that all attention is good attention. I know that sentiment has been around for ages, but I feel like anyone who still buys into that doesn’t know much about today’s media. Or maybe media in general. Whatever, short sightedness is all the rage these days. Case in point.
Oh yeah: Pooh Bear and Christopher Robin also operate under a very perverse view of rebellion. I’m so, so bad. Do you see how bad I am? Bad dot com backlash look at me know slash nobody can tell us what to do so there. I imagine a Twitter rant from you know who will soon come, in which he’ll be bitching and complaining about the things people say in response while simultaneously claiming to be operating under the fuck the industry and everyone’s opinion mantra. Womp, womp.
I always laugh at celebrities who whine about the public needing to judge them based on their art versus their private lives then subsequently throw their private lives in our faces. After I heard each song, I started quoting Geri Halliwell’s “Look At Me.” Thing is, we already were looking at ‘em, thus making this spectacle all the more unnecessary.
In the end, as listeners we’re free to twirk to it or not. Whatever. But when it comes to Pinky and No Brains, I sure hope I don’t hear any future complaints from either about what’s headed their way (one so more than the other). They’re exploiting the very issue each vocally used to complain that the public was too invested in. Now they’re inviting everyone back into their melodrama. So, good luck to them, and more importantly, best wishes to her publicist.
P.S. I forgot she said this in her 20/20 interview:
“When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn’t be held responsible for telling them ‘Go back.’ Even if Chris never hit me again, who’s to say that their boyfriend won’t? Who’s to say that they won’t kill these girls? These are young girls. I just didn’t realize what an impact I had on these young girls’ lives until that happened.”
To quote the late, great, Nippy, “Watch what you say.”
Antonio
February 21, 2012 at 1:46 am
Every bit of this and more.
Amy
February 21, 2012 at 3:26 am
Amen. The cruelest thing you can do to famewhores is ignore them altogether. That’s exactly what I’m gonna do. Eff them both.
Kingphoenix
February 21, 2012 at 10:49 am
Finally, somebody is seeing what i see out of this situation, i thought i was going crazy after reading and hearing some of the comments about this massacre…It really scares me about what people priorities are on…like for real!
cee
February 22, 2012 at 7:09 am
It pains me to agree with everything you say, but this is the most concise summing up of this situation that I’ve seen/heard. Disclaimer: I am (was?) a huge a Rihanna fan. What bothers me is that this seems to be a controversy for the sake of being a controversy. Go ahead and forgive. We applaud you. Go ahead and make music with him if you want to. We’ll rock. But to go from 3 years ago to him beating you bloody to making a comeback with “I wanna fuck you so bad”… tacky, tasteless, and disappointing. It also bugs the hell out of me that Rihanna’s reaction to this is, fuck the haters, I’m a thug, I’m being me, I’m being real, etc. Go head and be real, but have some respect for your fans who’ve looked up to you, bought your records, defended your ass, made you rich. It’s not about living for them, it’s about a little respect. If she and Chris were really genuine about showing the world they’d moved on, sure go ahead, and make a song together. Something with a little more substance and meaning and far less Twitter rants and FUs to the fans who don’t approve.
Awerd
February 24, 2012 at 1:07 am
Even though social media & the “controversy” behind these second-to-second updates is now the new thing to remain relevant, this will backfire in Ri Ri face thus the quote you mentioned. I laughed but agreed with MTO for once when they put up the photo of ri busted from chris hands, to show as a reminder that girl you being stupid for this. I do wish she would clean up her act cause I do believe she was pregnant and had an abortion that’s why she skinny as hell now and a drunk. It was cute for “Rated R” & even that was questionable but this is another Britney situation calling out for SOS.
Renae
March 2, 2012 at 6:00 am
Ive always believed that she didn’t genuinely mean what she said in that 20/20 interview. She did speak of her empire and how it would be impacted if she stayed and that’s the only part I ever thought was truthful. The rest was her giving the public what they wanted to hear from her, she felt the backlash from her Miami trip and couldn’t have that destroying her career, so she did what she had to do….for her career.
In that interview the strongest reaction from her seemed to be about him denying the text messages, she was still visibly heated about that, not the assault as much.
I’m still shocked she and her team signed off on this personal/professional collab but her life is her life, not mine. I would have thought people would have expressed some concern on her behavior a while ago but the comments I read regarding her behavior via twitter and the blogs were “she’s young and rich” or ” she just doesn’t give a fuck and I love it” and on and on. Now she does this and people question her behavior and role model status? Rihanna, the artist, shouldn’t be ANYONES role model and neither should Robyn Fenty, the person who is a human being and trying to figure out her life. I hope they both make better decisions in all aspects of their lives.
xedos
March 11, 2012 at 8:07 pm
I think Rihanna is her own publicist