Rihanna, Katy Perry, Mick Jagger party as gold-rush mood grips Havana following Cuba-US thaw
People pack the basement of one of Havana's hottest clubs, the "Shangrila," for a private concert by Leoni Torres, one of Cuba's biggest pop stars in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. While most Cubans remain on the outside looking in, Havana's high society has a gold-rush, center-of-the-universe pulse that hasn't existed here since Fidel Castro stormed down from the mountains in 1959 and threw out the last group of foreigners who saw Havana as their tropical playground. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan) Read More
When Rihanna's Kanye West and Paul McCartney team-up "FourFiveSeconds" dropped in January, fans and industry insiders presumed a new Rihanna album was coming soon. After all, her last LP was in 2012 -- even 10 months ago, it had already been the longest gap between Rihanna albums ever. Read More
Designed by Guo Pei (who reportedly took two years to complete the masterpiece), Rihanna's golden gown was the only one by a Chinese designer at a Met Gala with a Chinese theme. She's always right on point.
RIHANNA has spoken about what it means, personally and in the larger sense, to her to have been named as the first black woman to front a Dior campaign. The French label confirmed on Monday that the singer was set to star in its next Secret Garden film, joining actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Marion Cotillard and Natalie Portman - who are all current faces of different elements of the Dior collection.Continue to Read
dropped in January, fans and industry insiders presumed a new Rihanna album was coming soon. After all, her last LP was in 2012 -- even 10 months ago, it had already been the longest gap between Rihanna albums ever.Read More
Over the weekend, Rihanna jetted to Rio de Janeiro to perform at the 30th anniversary Rock In Rio music festival. Katy Perry, Rod Stewart, Sam Smith, One Republic, The Script and more also were onstage at the weeklong festival.
Leading up to her performance, Rihanna took to Instagram to thank fans for coming. “85,000 tickets in 57 minutes … blows my mind … thank you for traveling from all over Brazil and the world to make tonight so special for me!!!”
Image copyrightReutersImage captionRihanna said no victim of domestic violence 'wants to even remember it'
Pop star Rihanna says she feels she has been "punished over and over" by the attention surrounding her assault at the hands of ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.
Pictures of her bruised face surfaced after the assault in Brown's car.
Asked about becoming "a poster child for victims of domestic abuse", she said she felt forced to relive the "very serious" incident by the media.
She told the magazine: "Well, I just never understood that, like how the victim gets punished over and over. It's in the past, and I don't want to say, 'Get over it,' because it's a very serious thing that is still relevant; it's still real.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionRihanna and Chris Brown got back together in 2012
"A lot of women, a lot of young girls, are still going through it. A lot of young boys too. It's not a subject to sweep under the rug, so I can't just dismiss it like it wasn't anything, or I don't take it seriously.
"But, for me, and anyone who's been a victim of domestic abuse, nobody wants to even remember it. Nobody even wants to admit it.
"So to talk about it and say it once, much less 200 times, is like… I have to be punished for it? It didn't sit well with me."
Brown was sentenced to five years of probation following the assault. But the pair got back together in 2012, and Rihanna told Vanity Fair she thought she could change him.
"I was that girl who felt that, as much pain as this relationship is, maybe some people are built stronger than others," she said. "Maybe I'm one of those people built to handle [things] like this.
Rihanna on Domestic Abuse: 'It's Not a Subject to Sweep Under the Rug'
Rihanna opened up about her tumultuous relationship with Chris Brown, his assault and the unfair treatment she and other victims of domestic abuse often face in a new interview with Vanity Fair. "I just never understood that, like how the victim gets punished over and over," the singer said.
Rihanna did not dwell on the infamous 2009 incident, though shared some sharp words for "the very nasty woman" who leaked photos of her bruised and swollen face to TMZ and "thought a check was more important than morals."
Rihanna walks the streets of Cuba in her new Vanity Fair November 2015 cover story, on newsstands October 13.
Here’s what the 27-year-old entertainer had to share with the mag:
On thinking she could change Chris Brown: “A hundred percent. I was very protective of him. I felt that people didn’t understand him. Even after … But you know, you realize after a while that in that situation you’re the enemy. You want the best for them, but if you remind them of their failures, or if you remind them of bad moments in their life, or even if you say I’m willing to put up with something, they think less of you—because they know you don’t deserve what they’re going to give. And if you put up with it, maybe you are agreeing that you [deserve] this, and that’s when I finally had to say, ‘Uh-oh, I was stupid thinking I was built for this.’ Sometimes you just have to walk away.. I don’t hate him. I will care about him until the day I die. We’re not friends, but it’s not like we’re enemies. We don’t have much of a relationship now.
“I think she was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit. Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be black? Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up,” the 27-year-old entertainer told the mag. If you don’t know Rachel‘s story, she is a former NAACP leader who lied about being black.
Twitter exploded over Rihanna‘s quote, and people were quick to make their opinion about Rachel known.
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When Rachel Dolezal first made headlines this summer, after the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president was “outed” for being white, no one seemed quite sure what to make of Dolezal’s curious narrative. After all, the media hadn't exactly ever encountered a Caucasian woman who so identified with African-American culture that she devoted her career to celebrating it and countless hours into presenting herself as black. But when Vanity Fair’s Lisa Robinsonsat down with Rihanna for the magazine’s November cover story, the pop star revealed a singularly celebratory opinion of Dolezal. Continue to Read
Rihanna, Katy Perry, Mick Jagger party as gold-rush mood grips Havana following Cuba-US thaw
