Seriously, this is not ironic. UNICEF is bottling Rihanna and other celebrities’ tap water and raffling it off.
This is all–to coincide with Water Week–to raise awareness about “… the lack of access to safe, clean water for nearly 900 million children and adults across the globe.”
Who dreams up these campaigns? We give up.
Apparently not content with her (failed) attempt at igniting controversy last year with her questionable spread in Italian Vogue, Rihanna has decided to try her hand yet again at the latest epidemic sweeping the globe. This time through her new and, let’s be honest, particularly boring video for “Rockstar 101.” In it, she doesn’t wear much, she writhes around, she impersonates Guns N’ Roses drummer Slash, as well as someone who may or may not be Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Oh, and in some scenes (perhaps as an ode to the pioneering work of Tyra Banks?), her entire body is covered in what looks to be black body paint or makeup…while she is wearing chains (see picture below). Good girl gone real bad or “fierceness out of control”? You decide. But maybe she should have a look at the Blackface user guide before she proceeds next time.
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