Rihanna’s career is heading for freefall as reports suggest she is heading down the same path as Amy Winehouse after a disaster of a promo trip last week.
Rihanna, Photo Ros O'Gorman
It was titled the #777 Tour. 150 fans and journalist went on a seven-day, seven-sountry, seven-concert tour with Rihanna. The promotion was a mess. Reports from the inside were horrific.
At Gawker.com, one of the journos, (who preferred to remain anonymous) wrote about the sad state of Rihanna.
“I hesitate to say that she looked visibly drunk or generally “on some of the hard shit” during her performances, so let me just say that we came to expect a three hour delay before she went on every night,” he reporter wrote.
The shows simply sounded sad. “She barely does any of her own singing, which isn’t a huge pearl-clutcher, but at least Britney danced a little. For Rihanna, just licking her lips during a song constitutes a taxing, elaborate physical routine that deserves a couple of mid-performance tequila shots.”
And the shows were exactly the same every night except for ‘insert city here’. “The shows are hilariously rote. “What the fuck is up, Mexico City?” “What the fuck is up, Toronto?” “What the fuck is up, Paris?” “What the fuck is up, [Insert Epcot Center City Here]?” followed by a tight sixty minutes of lip synching and lethargic thigh-slapping”.
The entire promotion sounds like a disaster. “Please picture what it would be like going to your job if there was no toilet, kitchen, water fountain, faucet, or lunch break, and instead of going home at the end of the night, they made you wait standing up in an airport while the person responsible for determining when you go home laid around getting fucked up and wearing European money like pasties”.
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