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May 18, 2012
Rihanna In Battleship: How Does She Do?
Battleship is a long, headache-inducing blend of cliches and explosions, about a fleet of ships out to save the world while making money at the box office. One of the more notable things about it is that Rihanna makes her film debut as Petty Officer Cora 'Weps' Raikes, a kickass, sarcastic, but ba ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Is Rihanna The Next Whitney Houston?
That's what Star magazine so tastefully asks on their cover. Yes, there have been murmurings. Last week, Rihanna didn't feel well, but she went to the big Costume Institute at the Met anyway. She still felt terrible, but strangely kept partying after the event like there was no tomorrow. And as ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2012
Asshattery In 140 Characters Or Less: Which Musicians Are The Biggest Klouchebags?
If you're on the Internet you might have heard of Klout, a pseudo-scientific way for measuring the slippery ideal of "online influence." Taking into consideration a variety of factors, it has (despite its often being utterly gameable and as a result off the mark) turned into a way for people online ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 22, 2012
Coldplay
If you're on the Internet you might have heard of Klout, a pseudo-scientific way for measuring the slippery ideal of "online influence." Taking into consideration a variety of factors, it has (despite its often being utterly gameable and as a result off the mark) turned into a way for people online ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2012
Rihanna And Chris Brown Find Headlines In A Hopeless Place
Last night, Rihanna and Chris Brown leaked two collaborations, a remix of her dessert-fetish track "Birthday Cake" and a rework of his Generic Club Banger No. 86 "Turn Up The Music." The releases inspired much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, but how do they fit into the pantheon of trollg ... More >>
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February 12, 2012
Oddsmaker: Do Beyoncé And André 3000 Have Enough Swagu To Beat Kanye And His Dozens Of Friends At The Grammys?
The Grammys created the awkwardly named Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category ten years ago, around the time Ja Rule's various "thug love" duets were dominating the airwaves. The award recognized a growing sector of popular music that didn't quite fit into the preexisting rap, R&B or pop song ... More >>
Music
January 18, 2012
The Year Ravers and Pop Fans Learned to (File) Share
The Grammys created the awkwardly named Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category ten years ago, around the time Ja Rule's various "thug love" duets were dominating the airwaves. The award recognized a growing sector of popular music that didn't quite fit into the preexisting rap, R&B or pop song ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2011
The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 5: Rihanna, "S&M"
The Song: Rihanna, "S&M" The Crimes: Dressing a bloodless ode to kink up by saying it's actually about the media? Na na na na na na, come on, girl. Pop stars need their personas as much as they need the songs that take them to the top of the charts—and lest you think that need exists in a va ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part II: PJ Harvey, Jessie J, And The Post-Pop Character Landscape
Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. Thanks Maura! And hello Nick, Katherine and Eric. Post-megasales megastars? Beyoncé and Gaga fit the bill, for certa ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
100 & Single: Rihanna's Post-Millennial Strategy For Setting Chart Records
Pop-chart record-keeping can be as contentious as baseball's, and we've got quite the steroids-style asterisk forming atop Billboard's Hot 100. On the most recent chart, the most pervasive radio star of the last half-decade brushed past a couple of legends into the hall of fame. And like Barr ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Rihanna Chooses Life In The Self-Consciously Edgy Video For "We Found Love"
Yesterday the video for "We Found Love," the first single off Rihanna's sixth (!) album Talk That Talk, landed online, and it's definitely taking the '90s revival to heretofore-unseen mainstream levels: Ri wears Docs and washed-out denim as the housey, repetitive song swirls around her; the l ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
The American Music Awards Nominations: Hey, Did You Know Adele Sold A Lot Of Albums This Year?
Have you bought your copy yet? (Give it time.) You can have your Grammys and your Mercury Prizes and your Polaris Prizes and whatever other musical prizes honor things like "talent" and "artistry"—the most honest awards show in pop music, though, is undoubtedly the American Music Awards ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Rihanna Goes Back To The Club With Calvin Harris On "We Found Love"
Rihanna, looking for love in another hopeless place. Earlier this morning, a radio rip of "We Found Love," the lead single off Rihanna's forthcoming (sixth!) album, made its way on to the internet. But 20 seconds into the track, when that first Ibiza build-up begins to anticipate the inevitab ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Live: Rihanna Can't Stop Touching Herself
Rihanna w/J. Cole Izod Center Thursday, July 21 Better than: Being outside in weather that makes you feel like you're perpetually trapped in the car with hot air blowing on you while you wait "just a few minutes while the engine gets going" for the AC to kick in. A friend of mine recently ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
The Worst Thing About The New Generation Of "Raunch Pop" Is The Way It Makes Sex Utterly Boring
Rihanna's sex-drenched "S&M" and its brightly hued, LaChappelle-biting video were predictably controversial when they were given the promo push here a few months back, and now it's provoking a storm on the other side of the pond, with the British regulatory agency OFCOM deeming the video too ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
"American Idol": Say Goodbye To Paul McDonald
Michael Becker/FOXSo Paul McDonald went home this week. Not that shocking! The only real surprise is that it finally reverses the gross and troubling trend of only female contestants getting bounced. (The one time a male contestant was voted off after top 12 week happened when the judges save ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Rosie O'Donnell Responds To My Chris Brown Blog
The one in which I quoted her radio remarks saying that Chris Brown may be getting some racist treatment in the media. For those who didn't see the comment she left on that particular blog, I print it here in full. "here is what i think michael musto yes chris brown and rihanna had a viole ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Chris Brown Goes Into A Violent Rage!
TMZ has the story that Chris Brown, who's on probation for the felony beating of Rihanna, is up to his old tricks, though at least it's just objects that he's beating now. Here's what went down: On this morning's Good Morning America, Robin Roberts kept asking Chris about the Rihanna situat ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Have Any Famous Friends on Facebook?
Part of the fun of having all those faux-friendships on Facebook is that you can constantly tell people stuff like, "My friend Rihanna said..." Naturally, you don't add that you've never actually met the woman! So here's my query: Do you have any famous FB friends, and did you go after th ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Rihanna's "S&M" Video: NYC Sex-Shop Employees (Including A Former Dominatrix) Weigh In
Delicious and nutritious There comes a time in a foreign country's life when it has to stand up and say, "No, Rihanna, we do not want to see you deep-throat that banana." That time was last week, when 11 countries banned the pop star's new bubblegum-colored, bondage-laden music video for h ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Rihanna Gal Pal Revealed! Exclusive!
Remember when everyone was buzzing about Rihanna hanging with a blonde woman in Barbados for the holidays, the blonde really hanging, boobaliciously speaking? Well, the press presumptuously reported that the woman was Rihanna's bodyguard--and truly, she does like like if anyone could keep Ch ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
The 5 Most Awkward Interactions Between Kanye West and Rihanna in the New Interview
Alright, alright, we know, but it's Kanye's Week, or Kanye's World, even, and we're just living it, so forgive us if our mind is a bit preoccupied with the guy right now. (We are far from the only ones.) And, when not tearing down the Bowery Ballroom, invoking the ire of the Twittersphere, do ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 15, 2010
'Good Peoples Presents Hudson Mohawke, Rustie & Mike Slott'
Alright, alright, we know, but it's Kanye's Week, or Kanye's World, even, and we're just living it, so forgive us if our mind is a bit preoccupied with the guy right now. (We are far from the only ones.) And, when not tearing down the Bowery Ballroom, invoking the ire of the Twittersphere, do ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2010
Dan Black
Alright, alright, we know, but it's Kanye's Week, or Kanye's World, even, and we're just living it, so forgive us if our mind is a bit preoccupied with the guy right now. (We are far from the only ones.) And, when not tearing down the Bowery Ballroom, invoking the ire of the Twittersphere, do ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2010
Last Night: Rihanna Incites Children, Self to Violence at Her Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden
Rihanna Madison Square Garden Thursday, August 12 During her lone moment of banter last night, Rihanna took deep breath, sat down on the edge of the stage and said, "Thank you for making my dream come true." Which sounds kind of boilerplate. It is. But she wasn't just referring to selling out Mad ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Watch Jay-Z Perform at Nike's World Basketball Party at Radio City Music Hall Last Night
Here we have the third leg of the big-tent rap tripod that set up over an unwitting New York City last night, joining Rihanna's sold-out MSG stand and Kanye West's secret Rosewood performance in the annals of shows you really wanted to get into but couldn't. Preceding Shawn Carter was the 2010 USA ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Dept. Of Why The Hell Not: Rihanna Covers "Wonderwall"
The good people of Zurich were recently treated to this improbable spectacle; Rihanna's guitar player doesn't seem to know the song, but that never stopped anybody. Evidently this tune was so cathartic she busted up a rib, but she's alright now. Expect to see here on a red carpet in a BLUR = SHITE ... More >>
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April 7, 2010
Aw Man: Nicki Minaj Drops Off the Rihanna/Ke$ha Tour
Well, that took a dispiritingly short amount of time. No sooner did future-of-rap-in-2010 goddess Nicki Minaj announce a summer tour with Ke$ha and Rihanna--this literally happened on Monday--did she call the whole thing off, tweeting: "Barbz I'm sorry 2 say I will not be going out on RiRi's tour. ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
Perhaps You'd Like to Watch of a Video of "Rihanna" Riding a Mechanical Bull While Kings of Leon's "Sex on Fire" Blares Over the Speakers?
OK, so that almost certainly is not Rihanna, though the location does in fact seem to be New York's own Johnny Utah's, and you can't even actually watch the video here because whatever Celebuzz is, they don't believe in embeds, but whatever, what if it were true? One commenter claims this vid ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2010
Bad Girls Gone Worse: Rihanna, Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga
While they seethe and snarl, Taylor Swift emasculates with a smile
Blogs
December 4, 2009
Live: Rihanna Drops By Hammerstein Ballroom
Like I said, silver and pantless. CREDITRihanna Hammerstein Ballroom Thursday, December 3 Rihanna these days is basically carrying on as though she's fronting Nine Inch Nails. And who can blame her. Navigate a truly chaotic, hey-quit-pushing scene outside the Hammerstein (a free show, you se ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Questions About Tiger Woods
Did the wife really shatter the car window to free her husband or was she more likely aiming for his head? If he really is the victim of spousal abuse, will people finally take seriously the fact that some men can be Rihanna-like? (Though in her case, it was the abuser who cheated.)
Music
November 24, 2009
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: Rihanna's Rated R
Her new album is as angry and profoundly uncomfortable as you might have suspected
Blogs
October 20, 2009
On The New Rihanna Song, "Russian Roulette"
Listen here. Written by Ne-Yo, first single off Rated R, out November 23, and not, alas, a track-by-track cover of the Queens of the Stone Age album. Don't tell me that wouldn't be awesome. But we digress, if only because this is very lovely, and very boring. The problem here is Rihanna is wa ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
Chris Brown Sentenced to Five Years! (Probation!) Also, Fine, Fees, Etc.
For his ungentlemanly behavior toward Rihanna, Chris Brown has been sentenced to five years -- probation! He also has to take domestic violence counseling and pay $400 for the privilege. And he has to turn in his guns (oh, man!) And he gets 180 days of community labor, and has to pay a "restituti ... More >>
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August 20, 2009
Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye Will Be Here Long After the World's RAV4 Dealerships Have Gone Extinct
You gotta give it to Jay-Z, Kanye, and Rihanna--they are absolutely not afraid to suggest that when the world has ended and all the BMWs are just burned out husks and humans have to wear masks and bandanas to survive, they will still rule all of us. Video: Jay-Z feat. Rihanna & Kanye West - Run ... More >>
Music
April 1, 2009
Another Love TKO: Teens Grapple with Rihanna vs. Chris Brown
An unsettling conversation, to oft-disturbing and potentially lasting effect
Blogs
March 18, 2009
Rihanna, Get The Fuck Out Already!
I'm so weary of reading the comments of people trying to blame Rihanna for her situation with Chris Brown or saying she slapped him first, or reminding us that she's said there's been abuse in her past, blah blah blah. Whatever! The point is that she needs to get out of this mad love affair immedi ... More >>
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March 18, 2009
Horrific Survey of the Day: Half of Boston Youths Say Rihanna Was "Responsible" For Chris Brown Mauling
In news too depressing to really even contemplate, the Boston Public Health Commission reports that out of 200 teenagers--aged 12 to 19--interviewed about dating violence, "nearly half of Boston youths surveyed said [Rihanna] was 'responsible' for what happened while 52 percent said they were both ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2009
Celebrities Return to a Chastened America's Front Pages
Did you notice that a lot of the news this morning is about celebrities? "Morning Joe" has Pete Hamill and Peggy Noonan discussing Chris Brown and Rihanna. The Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer fight has been covered not only by us, but to a fare-thee-well in normally star-averse venues such as The Atlantic, T ... More >>
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March 2, 2009
Rihanna Back with Chris Brown? Nooooo!
Gemma Mary The most horrifying news since Chris Brown beat Rihanna and left her unconscious is the report that the two may be back together again! Is nothing learned from the past? Are we to assume that some apologetic phone calls and a perfunctory attempt at anger management are all that's needed ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2009
And Now, That Amusing Photo of Bears Riding Horses, to Counteract Somewhat the Ill Effects of the Post-Attack Rihanna Pic
Should you have had any interest in seeing the profoundly disturbing photo currently offered by TMZ under the headline "Rihanna -- The Face of a Battered Woman," it's very probable you've seen it already; please accept this hilarious shot of bears riding horses in its stead. About Rihanna, though ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2009
Blatant Chris Brown/Rihanna Rumor-Mongering Update: Jay-Z Is Fixin' to Kick Some Ass
You wouldn't like him when he's angry, or maybe you would actually. My goodness, Bossip is all over this -- 8 posts already today about the increasingly lurid and awful Chris Brown/Rihanna affair, the best/worst of which quotes an unidentified Us Weekly source in the Jay-Z camp that describes Mr. ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2008
So You Can Just Watch T.I. Testify In A Murder Trial?
You wouldn't like him when he's angry, or maybe you would actually. My goodness, Bossip is all over this -- 8 posts already today about the increasingly lurid and awful Chris Brown/Rihanna affair, the best/worst of which quotes an unidentified Us Weekly source in the Jay-Z camp that describes Mr. ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2008
THE TAKEOVER
Time for Summer Jam
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March 4, 2008
PASS THE SYRUP
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January 15, 2008
Immigrant Songs
How Rihanna and M.I.A. delivered the most profound political statements of 2007
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June 7, 2007
The Battle for the Heart of R&B
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Music
May 29, 2007
Mediocre Girl Gone Good
Rihanna's triumphant, only occasionally cringeworthy pop-star coronation
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