![]() ![]() 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. 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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