Assemblages of bored men in color-coded T-shirts that say STAFF or VENDING or SECURITY. The random assortment of people with all-access passes. Guitar legend Nuno Bettencourt ( the Nuno Bettencourt). They are with her always.) Her manager and Jay-Z's right-hand man, Jay Brown, who has the best smile in the history of music. (These three women make up the core entourage. And her other best friend, her cousin Noella.
She wipes herself off with a paper towel. As if she's just been dipped into the baptismal font. In her pink, orange, and yellow platform heels, she stands six two, easy. From here, about six feet away, you can see that it's encrusted with dozens of small stones of various colors.
RIHANNA SKIN CHEORGRAPHY FULL
Twenty-three years after being born poor in Barbados, eight years after being discovered there by a producer on vacation, six years after being signed by Jay-Z, two years after being savagely beaten by her former boyfriend, the asshole Chris Brown, nine months after releasing an album that has yielded three number-one singles, she emerges from the dressing room in full regalia and walks out into the big void under the stands of the Izod Center. even the ten-year-olds seem puzzled.īACKSTAGE AT THE IZOD CENTER, NEW JERSEY, A COUPLE DAYS LATER My mom and grandma are in the house tonight.Īnd, uh, well. It's toward the end of the show - after "S&M," "Disturbia," "Only Girl (In the World)," "Run This Town," "Skin," and "Pon de Replay." After "Come on, rude boy / boy is you big enough?" and "Sex in the air / I don't care / I love the smell of it" and "I'll tell you all the secrets / that I'm keepin' / you can come inside" - after all that, she stops everything.
At this moment, in this room, she is the essence of Fuck. Madonna once did a Vegas-revue version of this show, but Rihanna is the indisputable champion of carnal pop.
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