![]() 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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