“Rockstar 101″ The Remixes Exclusively Available
The 12 “Rockstar 101″ Remixes were released on May 21 and are exclusively available on Masterbeat.com. DJ’s like Chew Fu, Mark Picchiotti, and Dave Aude have remixed the track. So click the photo below and check them out!
You can also go to www.masterbeat.com/#artist/rihanna and check out all the Rated R remixes made by Chew Fu or all the Rihanna remixes ever made! If you want to buy any of the remixes then you have to register first.
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Rihanna In “YOU” Magazine
Diana Gomez shoots Rihanna for the You magazine, AMAZING PHOTOS! We’ll add them shortly to the gallery. We’ve added x4 photos from “YOU” magazine photoshoot by Diana Gomez . Click here to view those amazing photos .
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Rihanna Reveals Why Life Is Sweet Again
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It’s difficult to calculate exactly how many people there are in Rihanna’s entourage on the day we meet. Two huge grey people carriers with tinted windows have drawn up outside the location for the YOU photo shoot, and out of them a crowd of people (of varying sizes and ages) gradually emerges. Swooping into the building first come several men in dark suits, a tall, tanned, tattooed bodyguard, four or five women pulling large cases on wheels full of make-up and clothes, and a couple more carrying bags of food. After a pause of a few minutes, four more women climb out of the second car, offering protective cover to Rihanna who stands head and shoulders above them.
Five years ago when Jay-Z – then president of Def Jam Records – first auditioned 17-year-old Robyn Rihanna Fenty, he commented that he signed artists because they either had swagger or talent and that, unusually, she ‘had both’. Now 22, internationally famous and rather more worldly wise, Rihanna still possesses ‘swagger and talent’, walking tall in perilously high heels.
‘That’s funny, I never heard that quote,’ she says. ‘Back then he was a father figure to me. I was very young and I had flown in to New York from Barbados alone. But now that I have grown and we have worked together and made music together, he’s like a big brother to me. Still a good friend and definitely still a mentor – he is the first person
I ask on anything,’ she adds, just a little nervously, as she sits down in a chair pulled close to a big electric heater (she hates the cold, and the unseasonably cool spring weather is the only thing she doesn’t like about London, her favourite city outside Barbados or the US) for our exclusive interview.
Rihanna’s progression from the naive young girl who had never encountered a celebrity before auditioning for Jay-Z to the confident, assured and highly individual woman she is today has not been without its difficulties. Born in Saint Michael, she is the eldest of three children of Ronald Fenty, a warehouse man, and Monica, an accountant. With a working mother and a father addicted to drugs (her parents divorced when she was in her mid-teens), Rihanna had a tough childhood, often having to care for her younger brothers Rorrey and Rajad. At 15, her potential was spotted by American producer Evan Rogers, who was introduced to her while on holiday in Barbados and who, over the next year, helped her to record the demo that gained her an audition with Def Jam Records.
Her first two albums – more reggae than R&B – were only minor successes, and it wasn’t until she made her third, Good Girl Gone Bad, that she achieved critical acclaim, worldwide fame (with the international number-one ‘Umbrella’ in 2007) and began to develop her distinctive personal style (which she says she owes to Cruella de Vil). But in February 2009 an argument with her then boyfriend Chris Brown escalated into violence that became public when police pictures of her injuries were released (Brown was subsequently sentenced to 180 days’ community service and five years’ probation for assaulting her).
One of the reasons, you sense, that Rihanna (known to her fans as ‘RiRi’) has embarked on her current promotional tour is to overcome the effects of that mortifying incident and put out the message that she has moved on. She has, she says, said everything she needs to say in the song ‘Cold Case Love’ on the new album, and although the subject is off-limits today she admits that it was a ‘very dark time for me’, and that playing out the drama in the full glare of the media made it doubly difficult.
‘Nobody wants anybody to know that is happening in a relationship, and seeing it plastered over every news channel I felt like it was a natural disaster happening. Every time I turned on the television, if it wasn’t “breaking news” it was the line at the bottom of the screen. I feel like it is behind me. I have a good balance in my life now, but it is something that people will probably ask me about for the next two years, unfortunately.’
Recent rumours suggest that the ‘balance’ in her life now is a new romance with US baseball player Matt Kemp, 25, but – perhaps because of that past experience – she is wary of confirming that they are an item.
‘Matt is not my boyfriend. He is nice. He is really nice, but we are not an official couple or anything,’ she says, in a way that suggests that might soon change (she has subsequently been reported to have met his parents).
With men out of the way, RiRi doesn’t just visibly loosen up (I suspect she is more nervous of interviews than interviewers are of her), her voice begins to change from the LA drawl when we first met to a delightful Bajan accent that is regularly punctuated by an infectious laid-back laugh. It’s women, not men, she confesses, who form the backbone of her life, particularly her mother and her best friend from school Melissa Forde, who is called her ‘personal assistant’ but is in effect her constant companion. Melissa has been a major influence in her life since she transferred to Rihanna’s school at 14 – at a time when RiRi herself was an enthusiastic member of the Barbados Cadet Corps (a quasi-military youth organisation) and something of a tomboy.
‘When Melissa arrived at school she really stood out. She was a black girl with blonde hair who wore make-up – she was the only girl in school who would wear make-up, because we weren’t allowed. We became friends and she would come over to my house with her older sister’s magazines and we would go through them and say, “Hey, we could do something like that.” That’s when I started to get into fashion and make-up. A year after I met her I dropped out of the cadets. I was like, “This is terrible! They are just screaming at me, I don’t like this!”’ she says, laughing at the memory.
Rihanna still asks Melissa’s advice on clothes (after the interview she enthusiastically introduces us, and she perfectly matches RiRi in height, humour and warmth) and the two young women live together in RiRi’s home in LA, along with Oliver, a three-year-old poodle.
‘Oh my gosh, he is adorable but he is very bad. He knows how much I love my clothes and if he is upset with me he will go and pee really close to them. The other day he was so cross that he peed right over my favourite pair of shoes,’ she says.
‘Being size zero is a career in itself – it’s not realistic and it’s not healthy’
The singer’s flair for fashion is such that, according to her European stylists Damian and Avigail, ‘Rihanna is the magic word to designers’. At our shoot she made the beautiful ballgowns her own by adding details such as a Nora Batty hairnet – pulled down below her eyes – that somehow, bafflingly, looked fabulous and edgy. Her fashion mantra is ‘be yourself’ and the people she admires – she mentions Gwen Stefani, Lady Gaga, Grace Jones and British singer La Roux – she likes because they dare ‘to be different from the rest’. Her individualistic approach to clothes, her refusal to diet (although she admits to sometimes getting strict with herself if she gets ‘out of control’) and her shapely rather than skinny silhouette (she weighs nine and a half stone) make her a great role model for young girls, with a refreshing take on the insidious size zero obsession of the fashion industry.
‘You shouldn’t be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know that if we see an outfit on a mannequin in a shop window we will love it and want to buy it whatever size we are. That’s why they have size zero models – they want to sell clothes. But you have to remember that it’s not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Being size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn’t try and be like them. It’s not realistic and it’s not healthy,’ she says with real feeling.
RiRi doesn’t get home to Barbados as much as she would like – perhaps once or twice a year – but she talks to her mother (whom she calls her ‘inspiration’) at least once a day. She is also a dutiful sister to her brothers, encouraging them to get good grades (neither brother has show-business ambitions: 20-year-old Rorrey is studying to be an architect and 13-year-old Rajad is a ‘little nerd’, obsessed with computer science).
On rare days off she likes to do something ‘normal’ like watch comedy shows or movies: she has been offered acting roles herself and says she would like to start with comedy (she is naturally funny, so perhaps a ‘romcom, something that’s fun’). She has a tight social circle, just a few of whom are famous – she ‘hangs out’ with Jay-Z and Beyoncé, is close to Kanye West, Kid Cudi and Mary J Blige, and counts Katy Perry as a ‘real friend’ with whom she has vacationed and is in constant contact.
‘Russell Brand and Katy make such a perfect couple. I met him a few years ago when he interviewed me, and became friends with Katy later, and it’s so funny because I would never have put the two of them together. But then when she told me it made so much sense. I was like, “Of course you guys would be together, you are both hilarious and rude and disrespectful, it’s perfect.” You can really see that they are just so in love.’
Rihanna has no idea what the future holds (‘ten years ago I would never have thought this would be it, so I am excited to find out what’s next’), but music remains important, and, as well as acting, she likes the idea of designing and one day ‘definitely, definitely having children’. In the short term, she says with a grin, she will probably be adding to her tattoos (discreetly hidden, these include ‘Shhh…’ on the back of a finger, her star sign behind her ear, and the message ‘Never a failure always a lesson’ on her collarbone).
‘I have 13 at the moment – a music note on my ankle, a skull with a bow on its head behind my ankle, a Sanskrit prayer here [going down her hip] and ‘Freedom in Christ’ in Arabic writing here on my wrist – oh, and a gun! I will probably carry on until I run out of cool little places to put them,’ she says, laughing as she shows them to me.
Beneath the surface – under those tattoos and behind that swagger – Rihanna is a surprisingly normal, incredibly polite and engaging 22-year-old. Even that formidable entourage, it turns out, is actually a tight-knit group of people, most of whom have been with her ‘since the beginning’.
‘I don’t see them as an entourage,’ she says, as she takes me to meet Melissa and the rest of her team. ‘When you are with the same people – especially when you are on tour – it changes. It becomes like a family.’
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Rihanna Covers Elle Girl Japan
Rihanna covers Elle Girl Japan this June ,2010 . If you have scans please send it on
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Pixie Lott ‘banned’ from seeing Rihanna
Pixie Lott has revealed that bouncers refused to let her watch a Rihanna concert, despite being her support act earlier in the evening.
The ‘Turn It Up’ singer, who is supporting Rihanna on the UK leg of her ‘Last Girl On Earth’ tour, admitted that she was refused entry to the gig by bouncers for not having a ticket.
“We did a few shows in London and I spoke to her then. She was really beautiful and lovely and friendly but it’s the only time I’ve seen her so far,”
the Daily Record reports.
<blockqoute"I've not watched her set yet. I tried to watch it in London with my family and mum's friends. I tried to go up to the boxes at the O2 but the security man wouldn't let me in because I didn't have a ticket."
“I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t say too much about it, I certainly didn’t say anything like, ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ So I had to leave my mum and dad and all my mum’s friends and do the walk of shame after being knocked back.”
In the other news Rihanna is the cover girl for Elle Japan June 2010,scans and pics are coming very soon .
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You must see Rihanna live !
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Rude Boy is the Barbados native’s 14th hit to go top 10, tying her with Beyoncé for most by a female artist since 2000.
Setting the stage: Rihanna’s 25-date Last Girl on Earth tour of arenas and amphitheaters starts July 2 in Auburn, Wash., and wraps up Aug. 28 in Syracuse, N.Y. She’ll also appear July 12 at Lilith Fair in Salt Lake City.
Why it’s a tour de force: Rihanna’s North American jaunt will come hot on the heels of two months of sold-out shows in Europe, which wrap up June 5 at the Rock in Rio festival in Madrid. The sultry star’s show includes elaborate sets, special effects, sexy choreography and a plethora of eye-popping, skin-baring get-ups. Ke$ha — herself a chart-topping hitmaker — is the opening act. — Steve Jones
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Behind the Scenes of ‘Rockstar 101′ Video
Above you can watch behind the scenes of ‘Rockstar 101′ video . And don’t forget ,premiere is on Tuesday 5/25 !
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‘Rockstar 101′ Video Premiere 5/25 !!!
The Official Video for “Rockstar 101″ will premiere exclusively
on VEVO Tuesday 5/25!
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Vote For Rihanna In The 2010 BET Awards!
It’s time to VOTE!!! You can vote as many times as you like. So let’s get Rihanna #1!!
The award takes place on Sunday, June 27 at 8/c at the Shrine Auditorium in LA. The show will be hosted by Queen Latifah.
The video director of many of Rihanna’s music videos, Anthony Mandler is nominated for “Best Video Director” [VOTE HERE].
Viewer’s Choice Award
Beyoncé -“Sweet Dreams”
Jay – Z featuring Alicia Keys -”Empire State of Mind”
Rihanna – “Hard”
Trey Songz -”Say Aah”
Young Money -”Bedrock”
Monica -“Everything to Me”
Best Female R&B Artist
Beyoncé
Mary J.Blige
Melanie Fiona
Alicia Keys
Rihanna
Video of the Year
Beyoncé and Lady Gaga -“Video Phone”
B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars – “Nothing On You”
Melanie Fiona -“It Kills Me”
Jay -Z featuring Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Jay- Z featuring Rihanna and Kanye West – “Run This Town”
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Candids – Leaving Hotel In Glasgow – May 20th
A few hours ago, Rihanna was spotted leaving her hotel in Scotland. On her way out, she signed a few autographs.
Source – JustJared
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