These are photos of Rihanna wearing a trash-bag miniskirt in Amsterdam where she certainly must have partied hard and, you know, gotten totally Amsterdamned on whatever (soft) drugs she had at her disposal as permitted by law. I’m not up to speed on Netherlands drug laws though, so don’t get upset at me for that comment. Pulp Fiction, baby.
This story mostly involves a bitchfight between Rihanna, who is the subject of a new Daily Mail column, and the author of said column, Liz Jones. Now Liz is an utter mess who somehow makes 90% of her pieces about herself even though her column generally appears in the Showbiz section of the Mail’s website. One particularly priceless story by Liz details her own financials, which culminate in her admission that she’s run up £150,000 in credit card debt because she’s somehow “worth it” and cannot stop spending because she uses money “to fill a hole in my soul.” Her extravagant purchases include a £26,000 bat sanctuary, and she’s completely unaware of how materialistic and self-obsessed she really is. Even when she’s writing about someone else, like say Duchess Kate, the article still ends up really being about Liz Jones.
Now Liz has temporarily run out of self-inspired ideas and started talking about how terrible Rihanna is as a role model. The column critiques Rihanna’s blatant sexuality and adds that RiRi’s fashion sense “invites rape.” Liz goes on to get preachy about Rihanna’s love of marijuana and overall aura: “I wish she’d stop infecting our High Streets with her gun tattoos, her false nails and fake hair, her bogus bad-ass shenanigans.” This is very much the sort of poorly written column that we’re used to from Liz, who is only looking for a reaction from her audience. And of course, she’s received the attention she wanted from Rihanna herself, who has Instagrammed a particularly unflattering photo of Liz with a special message in the caption. This photo of Liz is taken from an article wherein she attempted to live on £65 per week to see what it was like for poor people, and I think it was meant to illustrate what happens when she couldn’t afford her usual grooming products. The pic is followed by Rihanna’s message:
LOL!!!! My money got a bad habit of p-ssing 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 sh-t ain’t clever!!! That sh-t 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 f—ed up sh-t 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
I hate to say it, but Rihanna has a point. In fact, I’m totally on board with Rihanna’s chosen manner of living aside from the fact that she ever went back with Chris Brown. I could never live a 24/7 party lifestyle like RiRi, but I support her freedom to do so. I’m not really sure why “sad sloppy menopausal mess” had to be brought into Rihanna’s retort, but I guess she’s writing just as classily as Liz Jones at this point. Rihanna’s absolutely correct in that she’s never held herself out as a role model, so no one should expect her to act like one. Liz Jones needs to go back to gazing lovingly into the mirror at herself and stop pretending to worry about Rihanna.
Photos courtesy of Instagram and WENN
Oh gawd, they’re both as bad as each other, though I suppose Liz is worse, because she started it. And now I sound just as childish as the two of them !
Glad she told liz off. I’ve read some of her articles, she seems to hate everyone and is a self absorbed hot mess.
So true, as a regular reader of Liz’s articles, someone needed to call her out. And I might sound like a 12 year old, but… Suck it Liz!
Re: ‘gotten totally Amsterdamned on whatever (soft) drugs she had at her disposal as permitted by law’:
As an Amsterdam citizen, let’s get you up to speed…
1. Remember the rest of that Pulp fiction bit? ‘it’s legal, but it ain’t a hundred percent legal. I mean, you can’t walk into a restaurant, roll a joint, and start puffin’ away. They want you to smoke in your home or certain designated places.’
That still applies.
2. Having said that, I highly doubt RiRi really smoked those two enormous joints she was photographed with the other day. I did not go to see the concert, but the reviews were generally very favorable here in the Netherlands. She showed up on time, sang decently, was energetic and gave quite a show. I won’t link any reviews ’cause they’re all in Dutch, but as one critic said: ‘it’s doubtful Rihanna really smoked any weed herself, she did not come off as stoned at all’.
It’s publicity. She wants to be seen as a bad girl. That’s her brand. But let’s be real, she has a job to do, too. I’m not a Rihanna fan, but to be fair to her: most of the time, she delivers.
As a fellow Amsterdam citizen: +1
Hoi! 🙂
Amsterdam is heaven on earth, even without the drugs. Must go again very soon.
So agree. Absolutely beautiful city.
I thought that since the end of 2012 foreigners were banned from “coffee shops”? Or maybe it’s one of those things that will be appealed by owners forever and never actually become law?
I love the Netherlands. Most specifically its public transport system and ubiquitous beef carpaccio salads. Yummy!
@Tapioca: there are a few towns in the netherlands that experimented with ‘membership cards’ for coffeeshops in order to ban foreigners, especially near the German border. But it’s never been applied in Amsterdam and it probably never will. Weed-smoking tourists are bringing in way too much cash.
She’s such a childish bitch.
HahHa! Which one?
I cannot stand Liz Jones, the woman is such a narcissist. As for Ri-Ri if your child is looking up to her as a role model then you need to take a step back and question your parenting skills.
I love it when equally ishy people argue and fight and public! I can’t believe anyone would look at Rhi-Rhi as a role model for anything. Gawed this girl can barely take care of herself. The Amsterdamn thing doesn’t bother me one bit because with Rhi-Rhi there is so much more that is concerning. I find this all very funny!
I LOLed when I first saw this article cuz I just KNEW Rihanna wouldn’t take this one lying down. This writer was full of so much crap, talking about how Rihanna’s dressing invites rape, such a idiotic idea to have about women’s dressing. I dress really modestly but I would never say that one of my friends who dresses more like Rihanna is “inviting rape”.
However, it always comes across as silly to me when women use menopause as an insult to other women, Rihanna will one day reach that point in her life.
Wait, what the fuck? She said the way she was dressed invited rape?
….goes back up….
Yep, missed that on my original skim. This, ladies and gentleman, is why we continue to fight rape culture. Every time I am tired of not letting one comment go, not hearing one remark and feeling the need to address it, always pointing out that it’s NEVER the victim’s fault…someone like Liz Jones comes along and reminds me why I keep shouldering the pack and carrying on in the fight. It is NEVER OK to blame the victim, it is NEVER OK to say someone is inviting rape, it is never OK for a victim to feel that she can’t report a rape because she was out in a bar, it is NEVER OK to tell a 15-year-old to cover herself in an airport, and it is NEVER OK to say that the victim in the Stubenville case and her parents’ are partially at fault. Should she have been drinking? No. Is the punishment for underage drinking now rape? I missed that in school. Someone who dresses like I do-loose tunics and pants because it’s hot as hell in SC- can be raped. A girl in a short skirt and no underwear is still NOT inviting rape.
*steps off soapbox*
No one invites rape. Rape is a crime of violence, not a sexual encounter based on what a man or woman is wearing. Yes, Liz Jones, men get raped, too.
I like how Rihanna responded. She owned her piece of real estate.
Amen, DreamyK. People talk about lust as a reason for rape and use it as a jsutification for telling women how to dress and behave. Idiots. Rape, of either sex, is about violence, power, and ownership of another person’s body. There are other types of rape beyond male on female. Sadly, there’s another layer when it’s male on female assault. We start indoctrinating women very young that they do not own their own bodies. Purity balls, controlling our daughters’ fashion choices instead of teaching them how to project the image they want, telling them to cover up their bodies because boys are “visual” …it’s all part of the undercurrent in this idea that women invite rape* by their actions. That may not be the goal of some of these situations, but we are reinforcing the idea that women do not own their sexuality when we make them promise their dad they will wait until they are married. It’s none of his damn business. Period.
*Even a “date rape,” situation, where a woman might have initiated a sexual encounter and then changed her mind, is still not about lust. It becomes about power the minute she says no and he doesn’t stop.
+ 1 @PrettyTarheelFan I can’t agree more, and you pointed out ways we have been ‘conditioned’ to live our lives based on the way men will perceive us that I hadn’t really considered. For example, telling girls to cover up shouldn’t be about preventing attention for men, it should be about projecting the image we want.
Good for Rihanna for defending herself.
I’m tired of people defending her right to live as she pleases. That argument doesn’t hold up when you’re a pop star who markets yourself to KIDS. YES.. She performs at schools and allows kids come to her adult shows (there should be an age limit on those sort porn acts if she truly considers herself an ‘adult artisit’) and that’s just scratching the surface on the way she reaches out to the tween/teen crowd.
Hmm, I wonder how proud of ‘her money’ she would feel, if revenue from that segment of the population stopped.
Sellout.
PS: don’t tell me that its the parents job to parent. I don’t remember giving a rats ass about my parents opinions as a teen. When you are a public figure like that, you have a responsibility to your fans, whether you want to or not.
Totally agree!If she doesn’t want to be a role model to teenagers then she should stop targeting her music at them.Sure she doesn’t ask to be a role model but she inevitably is and deny it is naive.
That said this “journalist” could’ve written something decent and make a serious analysis… The way she dressed “invites rape”??? Rape culture anyone?!
In what way is she marketing herself to kids? If we were talking about Katy Perry then I could maybe see where you’re coming from.
As for not allowing kids to come to her shows? Why are their parents taking them? As for the schools, what kind of backwards schools think it’s a great idea to have Rihanna come and perform?!
You don’t wanna hear it but in the case of younger kids it’s damn straight the parents job to keep on top of that. Rihanna is putting her drama/madness on Instagram and Twitter etc but if people are allowing their kids to go on these websites without supervision then that’s on them.
Liz Jones sounds like an idiot. So much to say, but I can’t fathom where to start due to the amount of stupid that left her fingertips to appear in an article. Let’s just say this isn’t the 1950’s, no woman “invites rape” and every woman should embrace their sexuality. There is nothing to be ashamed of..
Rhianna isn’t a role model, it’s not even a job she wants. Young girls should look to their mothers, teachers, leaders for that title, those are the ladies that deserve that respect.
Ahhh hand clap to Riri just on the strength that she admitted that she has her on s-it to work out. She knows she have issues and is not in denial.
Liz STFU and stop going after people because you have nothing better to write about.
Say what you want about Riri but at least she hasn’t fallen into that throwing shade war. Riri don’t go after people unless they come for her first then she will attack back.
I give RiRi a pass on a lot because she is young, not well educated and from an obviously dysfunctional home. The DM writer, however, seems like a complete and utter nut bag, who looks like she is jealous, more so than concerned about what type of role model Rihanna is for young people. Maybe this hack writer should spend less time with her bats because she acts like an old bat. Has this woman bothered to pick on anyone other than Rihanna? What kind of a role model are most celebrities anyway? If parents allow children to look up to celebrities as role models, that is on the parents not on the celebrities who do not package themselves as such. I am not a RiRi fan or apologist, but the girl is simply living her life, good or bad, it is not up to some crazy journalist to decide it is her job to tell someone else how to live.
THIS. This piece seems just like pure hate and jealousy. She’s talking about how rihanna’s fake nails and fake hair make her a bad role model. Hein?? How is this relevant to anything? She should get on and start writing about every celebrity then because 90% of them are walking around with a fake something. And that rape comment? Forget it.
Well how does this make Ri-Ri any better? or bigger? It doesn’t.
It just shows her childish need to get “one-up”. When you’re famous you expect public scrutiny, and naturally, not every article written about you is going to be flattering or even nice. A thick skin and learning to ignore these things is surely part of not only being a celebrity, but a grown adult? Oh, I forget…it’s Rihanna we’re talking about…
“Invites rape”? I don’t care for the way Rihanna dresses or behaves, or the whole Chris Brown thing, but those two words make my blood boil.
Liz jones, was on point. Rihanna is self destructing idiot, going back to Chris brown was only tip of an iceberg. She is promoting drugs use and her instagrams are soft porn. The fact that she will not acknowledge she has a problem makes her a ticking time bomb
Her response to liz jones is incoherent and childish. Liz jones should not have bothered to dedicate an article to that pile of trash.
Hilarious! So I guess we know Riri’s choice of reading material now: The Daily Mail.
The original article is bad, but if Rihanna had really wanted to make a credible response, it would have been nice if she didn’t sound like an illiterate teenager. Wow, posting an unflattering picture in Instagram! She REALLY showed her.
RiRi is very immature and this Liz woman makes a few valid points … but “invites rape”???? Hopefully you all will rip her a new one, just like you did Serena.
Rihanna is a terrible role model though. She had a point
Liz Jones is scum. As if women aren’t oppressed enough, now we have deal with another woman talking about how “her clothes invite rape”. What a dispicable thing to say. Good on Rihanna for putting this b*tch in her place.
This article had me chuckling and Ri well she who she is…
2 peas in a pod going at each other
On serious note not everything deserves a response
I totally don’t care what she does with her life as long as she don’t flaunt it..which I think she does! If she would only stop instagramming every single move she makes to the public and just let paps capture her idiocy, then I would totally buy the whole “i didn’t sign up for this role model” bullshit. But..ya know..she takes photos of herself and post it online for young people to see her fast life full of drugs, gangasta wanna be poses, her badd ass tattoos. Now I think that is uncalled for. if she don’t want this title of “role Model” then don’t be one. She knows she’s a celebrity. If you don’t agree with me then don’t get mad at Paula Deen.
Thank you. I don’t agree with Liz Jones “invites rape” comments, but I thnk Rihanna is a douchebag of the first order. And one who needs to get herself to rehab toot sweet.
I’m totally going to second you bluhare. Girl is a hot mess and needs rehab like, now.
this is a silly comment — why does her ‘flaunting’ her life bother you so much? If you’re not interested, don’t click, read or get engaged. I know I haven’t. She’s just narcissistic static. it’s really whatever. however this ‘journalist’ woman seems to be the one that could potentially causing damage by being careless with her writing. I ain’t no fan of Riri, but good for her for firing back.
Sure she fired back making literally no sense to me. Her language is pathetic. Honestly what does “my money got a habit of pissing people off” had anything to do with the article. This article wasnot about her money..its about her unapologetic display of her fast life full of drugs and of literally her coochie all over the internet. Mind you, she posts that on her own for young people to see. I don’t like to read about her but she’s part of the damn news and I like news. News keep me posted on all the stupid shit that’s happening in the world. She’s part of that stupid shit that happens in the world.
Truth hurts huh, Rihanna!?
Sorry to break it to you sweetheart, but people don’t bash you because you are “loaded”, they bash you because you are total trash in attitude, behaviour and the way you dress yourself.
Rihanna is right and I’ll tell you why right now.
Where the hell are all the articles talking about about specific MEN who do the EXACT SAME THING she is doing?
It’s okay for men to have women in videos in no clothes dancing on stripper poles, talking about how they are gonna F&$% them and advocate drug use, but when a woman does it, everyone is clutching their pearls over it??
And don’t give me that “she has young fans* argument. Juicy J, Snoop Dogg, A$AP Rocky and more ALL have younger fans, male and female, where are the long winded articles about them?
I call bullshit on this lady’s entire article.
And those men are no role models either. The whole ‘they do it so I can too’ is just stooping to another level of immaturity. Why doesn’t she and everyone else take the high road and just be better than that?
Agree with DommyDearest. Just because those creeps are acting doggy, doesn’t mean a woman “getting back at them” makes it right either. Neither situation is right, and whether we like it or not, even in 2013 the woman will be more harshly frowned upon because of it. I guess there is an unstated ethos that men can’t control themselves at times, but it’s up to the fairer sex to maintain the decorum. Unfair – I know, but sadly, true.
I agree with Mayday. I don’t see writers calling out male stars for the same stuff. Mayday’s not saying Rhianna’s right, she’s saying why are they calling out RiRi when there are male stars doing the same thing? It’s the same old, you need to be a lady b.s. while the men do what they want and get away with it without anyone calling them out.
Good points Luls – But hey I’d be satisfied is she actually SANG live and didn’t lip synch sounding like a goat being strangled – how this talentless manufactured twit can be better known than classy gifted Esperanza Spalding is beyond me.
Reading this made me wish I could smoke a few and forget these two.
I like her miniskirt. And dang riri had some words. Good for her. Her response is actually pretty intelligent for her.
On Ri I just say no coment
On Liz Jones I read one article she wrote about moving out to the countryside and the village did not want anything to do with her. The article was great. I could not stop laughing. She moved away with a huge loss the locals would not tolerate her.
Rihanna absolutely IS a sh*tty role model. She’s a complete skank who is consistently wasted in the club, shows up late for concerts she is ripping people off to see in the first place, she has a foul mouth (way worse than mine and that’s a feat), and her attitude is self-entitled beyond words.
Having said that, she has every right to act and be that way and I would kill to have her figure.
Rihanna is faux bad ass but anyone that looks to her as a role model has bigger issues to deal with.
She’s offended because everything that has been written about her is true. She is no role model for anyone. Maybe people who have self-esteem issues and looks to a girl who has the same. Her reply shows her maturity. She’s a role model in the same way Miley Cyrus is. Just another ‘woman’ sexualizing themselves in the name of money and recognition. If she was a regular person who acted the same way and dressed the same way she’d be called trash. She should spend time spelling her words correctly to show she isn’t completely illiterate. This girl sure is ‘hard’ considering she’s surrounded by body guards constantly. Let her try to ‘diss’ someone on the street and I can guarantee Chris Brown will be a thing of the past.
Just sayin.
And no, I’m not a feminist. I call it like I see it.
Just out of curiosity I googled some of Liz Jones articles and read one about how she was a recovering anorexic and the daily mail challenged her to eat normally for 3 weeks. This was her quote at the end of the article:
“All this eating has proved what I thought all along: food makes you soft lazy and undisciplined”
Talk about a bad role model! Even if the article is trying to showcase her “anorexic mind state” those words could be so damaging to someone with an ED thinking about recovery. Far worse role model than Rihanna’s skanky clothes and weed loving…Take a seat bitch
Here is the article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1191429/Fatten-What-happened-anorexic-Liz-Jones-eat-normally-weeks.html
Good lord – this is just straight up irresponsible! Thanks for sharing this Squeakie. What in the world is this publication doing publishing her articles?!?! They are validating her ‘voice’ by publishing this crap. But they gained a click, so perhaps that answers that. Sad.
I love Rihanna, but *THAT* is how she chose to respond? F-ck me dead…
How DARE that journalist say that Rihanna’s dress sense invites rape? Why is there so much rape-victim-shaming and blaming going on lately? It’s absolutely disgusting and unacceptable. Boycot Liz Jones!
oh my… a posting i actually agree with… it’s been a while
Liz Jones is so messed up that I actually give her some leeway on this. She was sexually assaulted at 9, has a lot of issues with anorexia, body dysmorphic disorder and a general fear of men and her own sexuality.
I think she’s driven to say stuff like this because she’s internalised some nasty stuff and WANTS people to tell her she’s completely wrong. She’s broken … I just feel sorry for her rather than angry at her.