Rihanna has never been one not to defend herself, especially through social networks, and today was no exception. She went in on British journalist Liz Jones, who criticized Rih for the decisions she’s made ever since she has reinvented herself as a bad girl.
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Jones calls her a “poisonous pop princess” who should come”with government health warning.” Her whole point is that the image she is portraying can be negative and damaging to the young girls who look up to her.
While Rihanna knows when to tone it down in order to pull in advertising deals and keep her record label sweet — so much so that she has enough dollar bills to use them as a carpet, and so many diamonds she can pretend to smoke them in a spliff, both things she’s been pictured doing — the message she’s sending to her young fans, through her explicit lyrics, vile dance moves and pictures on Twitter, is utterly toxic.
The article also shows pictures from Rihanna’s Instagram feed with her take on the comments like this:
Hitting the bottle last summer after her grandmother’s funeral. She doesn’t even bother with a glass…
So let’s forget about the fact that Rihanna has said TIME and TIME again that she is nobody’s role model, and not to even put her in that category. It seems that Ms. Jones has done her research on so many other nooks and crannies of Rihanna’s career that she forgot that. But Rihanna reminded her in her own bad gyal way. See Rihanna’s response on the next page.
LOL!!!! My money got a bad habit of pissing people off!! If you sincerely wanna help little girls more than their own parents do, here’s a toxic tip: don’t be amateur with your articles, you sound bitter! What’s all this about hair and nails and costumes and tattoos?? ….That shit ain’t clever!!! That shit ain’t journalism! That’s a sad sloppy menopausal mess!!! Nobody over here acts like they’re perfect! I don’t pretend that I’m like you, i just live… My life!! And I don’t know why y’all still act so surprised by any of it!! “Role Model” is not a position or title that I have ever campaigned for, so chill wit dat! I got my own fucked up shit to work on, I’ll never portray that as perfect, but for right now it’s ME!! Call it what ya want!! Toxic was cute, Poisonous Pop Princess had a nice ring to it, just a lil wordy! And P.S. my first American Vogue cover was in 2011…APRIL!!! #ElizabethAnnJones
So if Ms. Jones doesn’t get it by now, this time it should be clear.
Do you agree with Liz Jones or is Rihanna justified in her response?
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