Rihanna sets Penticton on fire
Anyone who says the SOEC is a quiet building, obviously hasn’t been to a Rihanna concert.
And, no, it wasn’t the 16 big rigs that lugged her gear from a show in Vancouver the night before rumbling. It has everything to do with Rihanna’s new edge, a grittier, harder version of the teen girl who came out with her debut hit single Pon de Replay in 2005. This transformed Rihanna, belting out tracks from her fourth studio album (Rated R) is, well, a good girl gone bad. Obvious from her barely-there outfits as she put chutzpah behind her hip thrusts, crotch grabs and slinky moves. It was only fitting her Last Girl on Earth tour on Monday in Penticton opened with a dreamy sequence and Welcome to the Madhouse playing.
Called “an animal,” by one male fan intoxicated by Rihanna as she pranced by in thigh-high black boots and switched costumes fulfilling the eye-candy portion for most of the male gender in the packed SOEC, the artist didn’t leave her female fans wanting more either. Rihanna opened wearing a prudish black floor length gown, flashing with red LED lights as she pounded her chest singing the heartfelt Russian Roulette. Rihanna was lifted high on a pedestal above the crowd as one teen girl ecstatically yelled out “Oh my god, Oh my god, I think I might cry.” After shedding her lengthy gown for an eye-popping pink one piece that left little to the imagination she hit her fans with Hard — complete with dancers carrying hot pink guns and a neon tank, which she straddled as it popped off.
Rihanna and her dance posse continued in high-gear as a car emerged from centre stage for the favourite song of the night for a group of Grade 12 students from Princess Margaret, Shut Up and Drive. Grabbing a young girl from the audience, Rihanna and her dancers, when they weren’t busy with amazing head spins and break dance moves, took baseball bats to the rusted out shell of a late 50s Chevy.
The tour, only on its second night of a North American gig, wasn’t without its drab moments. Just as the songstress had the crowd completely wound up throwing their hands in the air as she played guitar hero with a non-functioning axe slapped around her shoulders for the energetic I’m a Rockstar, things went a little sour. After the song she rushed off stage and it was announced the show was having technical difficulties.
Is this what Rihanna’s world is like? Technical difficulties? The 20-or-so minutes the concert stopped deflated the atmosphere in the pop star’s playground. It wasn’t long after the problem was solved that the crowd were back eating from her hand and dancing in the aisles. The Barbadian beauty knew exactly what to give them, Rude Boy.
As if that wasn’t enough to gain their love back, Rihanna sing-songed “Penticton,” a few times and encouraged everyone to join in for Rehab as she slinked around a couch on the catwalk. The artist changed pace back to the more danceable hits Don’t Stop the Music and SOS before the evening came to a close and the megastar stopped to apologize to Penticton and thank them for being patient with the technical difficulties. For her final song she sat down and enchanted everyone with Take A Bow, a testament to this artist’s genuine appeal.
Don’t let the hot pink machine guns, military/futuristic style garb, dancers dressed in bondage dangling from giant silver machine guns and Rihanna’s punk rock’esque candy-apple red mane fool you. The same woman gave 225 tickets to a group that camps in Naramata each summer, bonding together as adoptive parents of kids with African heritage, some of whom shed tears of joy that afternoon when they found out.
Oh, and that noise that came from the SOEC on Monday night? Well that was the five minutes of deafening cheers that rattled the buildings foundations as the almost capacity house called for an encore, which of course the gracious host gave, passing along a high-five to fan who rushed the stage.
Just another day in Rihanna’s world and Penticton seemed glad to be invited.
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” Kesha Online ” New Family Site
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and i know this post is kind of out-of-rihanna-subject but i would like to tell you that me along with samantha opened up a ke$hatastic KE$HA website and i would love it if you would check it out… and tell me watch’a think . you can either click here or click on the banner above
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Last Girl On Earth : Vancouver ” Review ”
Ke$ha might have dropped a dollar sign into her given name, but Sunday night it was headliner Rihanna who was — as Vince Vaughn’s character in Swingers might say — so money.
Still, pop upstart Ke$ha’s probably making buckets of it, given the success of Tik Tok, the first single off her debut album, Animal, released earlier this year.
Emerging onstage from the middle of a collection of vertical LED banks and strapped with a guitar modified to resemble a machine gun — which she “played” for a couple of minutes — it seems that Ke$sha is trying to send us a message: she is a naughty, naughty girl.
But don’t let Ke$ha’s Clockwork Orange-inspired eye makeup fool you: there’s nothing deviant about her vapid party girl lyrics, though she clearly has a knack for writing infectiously catchy tunes, the kind designed to get lodged in the back of your brain for obnoxious stretches of time.
Take her delightful ditty Dinosaur: “Old man why are you staring at me/Mac on me and my friends, it’s kind of creepy/You should be prowling around the old folks’ home/Come on dude, leave us alone…”
Not exactly Joni Mitchell. Then again, nobody endorses creepy old men save for creepy old men, so no harm, no foul. And the young girls in the crowd enthusiastically shouting the chorus, “D-I-N-O-S-A, you are a Dinosaur!” made it clear that Kei$ha’s lyrics are right on the money.
Unfortunately, her penchant for auto-tune and heavy reliance on tracking vocals made it difficult to tell whether she can actually sing. A betting man might say she’s just another overproduced studio singer whose 15 minutes will Tik Tok away tout suite. Time will tell. And if that’s the case, hopefully Kei$a’s smart enough to save as many dollar signs as she can before the clock runs out.
Rihanna, who took the stage almost 30 unfashionable minutes late, floated out from the back of the stage in a long black dress covered in red LED lights that looked like it might have taken roughly that amount of time to get into. It was quickly stripped off though to reveal a racy number underneath for Hard, while a sextet of dancers writhed on top of a pink tank and Rihanna straddled its long barrel.
And with a bang, we were off…
The excellent six-piece band ramped up the decibels for Shut Up and Drive and never really took their foot off the gas for the rest of the night — somewhat surprisingly, this was probably one of the loudest shows of the year.
The stage design was a slick combination of moving platforms and elaborate props, while the performance included great vocals accompanied by plenty of frenetic visuals: dancers suspended from machine guns, a couple of stilt-walking creatures who looked like they might have escaped from Burning Man, more video edits than Apocalypse Now and more costume changes than a Lady Gaga show.
It was a high-paced, highly polished 90 minutes with few kinks — impressive given that it’s the first show of Rihanna’s summer tour. And she seemed genuinely excited to be here, telling the excitable crowd near the end of the show: “It’s the first show of my North American Canadian tour!”
Source : The Vancouver Sun
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Lil Kim Eyes Rihanna collaboration
Lil’ Kim may not get along with Nicki Minaj, but there’s one female pop star who she would love to work with. Hip-hop’s queen of raunch hints at a new collaboration with pop provocateur Rihanna.
The Queen Bee released her own remix to Rihanna’s “Hard,” but reveals that another pairing could be in the works.
“I’m a huge Rihanna fan, and she’s a friend of mine, so if I had to guess, I’m 90% sure that song is probably in the works,”
she told Australian website Lifelounge.
But Kim, who’s currently playing intimate shows in the U.S. and abroad, doesn’t want people to judge the song before it happens.
“I look at it this way: if it happens, it happens. And it should be a surprise. It shouldn’t be something that people are anticipating, or have their own personal opinions on it before it even comes out. So I probably won’t ever mention that again.”
Although she may have choice words for Diddy and Drake, it’s all love when it comes to RiRi.
“I just love Rihanna, I think she’s great,” gushed Kim.
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Last Girl On Earth – Vancouver,Canada
Rihanna kicked-off her North American tour last night in Vancouver, Canada here are some of the first proffesional pictures, more coming soon
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Rihanna arriving at Vancouver International Airport
Rihanna was Spotted Arriving at Vancouver International Airport earlier today ; where she will be kicking off her North American Last Girl On Earth Tour
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Rihanna & Matt Kemp: Kiss Kiss!
Rihanna plants a kiss on her boyfriend, baseball player Matt Kemp, as he catches a flight to Arizona from LAX on Friday (July 2).
Matt, 25, headed to Arizona to play center fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks game.
Source : JustJared
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” Love The Way You Lie ” is the second Eminem Single
“The second official single, the Rihanna-assisted ballad “Love the Way You Lie,” has already hit #1 on the iTunes singles chart, with a video on the way.”
Let’s Get Excited
Source : MTV
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Rihanna and Matt at Colony nightclub in L.A.
Rihanna was spotted heading back to her car after visiting Colony nightclub in L.A. with her boyfriend, Matt Kemp.
The 22-year-old Bajan beauty and her beau watched Lil Jon perform live at the club!
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