In today’s entertainment industry, it is almost always about style over substance. We should all give odes to Janet Jackson for pioneering this trend. Also, odes to JLO for reviving this trend and making it ok to simply have enough of an “it” factor that people ignore how horrible you actually sound. Rihanna is just the newest and most recent fresh-faced artist to draw us so deep into her beauty (those eyes are divine) that we could care less about her singing abilities (or inabilities). She is just fun to watch and it is very difficult to ignore her huge presence. She has impeccable style that is virtually unmatched in the industry; she is obviously surrounded by industry giants with impeccable insight; and, she seems to be having so much fun and don’t seem to take herself seriously at all (she isn’t even afraid to throw a public tantrum from time to time). Her highs and lows have not created a shift in her personality. She is not trying to be and icon, a legend, a winner or this, a winner of that, the first Black to do this, the first Black to do that…here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack, quack…she is just having fun in such a fickle industry. I see Rihanna, because she obviously has class, as the Lena Horne type: when her time is up, she will gracefully retreat to her beloved Barbados. That other chick will end up as sad and pathetic as Aretha and Tina Turner: old chicks that don’t know that there time and era have came and went. I can see that other chick as being a slightly overweight 50-something year old still out there trying to prove that she can compete with fresh-faced talents. For that reason alone, it will be Rihanna who will reach legendary status because she is not seeking anything: she is having fun and she adores Chris Brown (he adores her as well). You can’t force-feed your way into legendary status. JLo was hot, hot, hot not so long ago and had movies, music, clothes, perfume, restaurants…you name it she had it. However, she crashed and burned. Whether people accept it or not, Beyonce is a gimmick. That is why she is trying so hard for people to take her serious. All of the Destiny Child’s album and her solo albums have YET to produce a classic. Rihanna has a classic in “Umbrella.” I don’t care how you cut it, that song is one that cannot ever be a remake. Just like no one can ever remake, “The Greatest Love Of All” or “What’s Love Got To Do With It” or “Purple Rain” or even Brittany Spear’s stuipid song “Hit Me Baby One More Time.” These songs are synonymous with their singers. I have not heard a DC song or B song that I will be up in arms if someone ever tried to remake it. That’s pretty sad. Only legends can produce classics.

Why is it necessary to wear a Kojak fedora with gloves? The fuck is this guy a serial rapist or something?

Ri-Ri can dress her ass off…she has the talent of my 3 year old shitzu..but she still can dress….

She’s cute.