Rihanna- Battered, Beaten, and Maried?!?!?

Millions all over the world were shocked to here that the glamorous couple of Rihanna and Chris Brown were not showing up the the Grammy awards on February 8th 2009. Later that week, an image from a police report was leaked all over the internet and the news. The picture was of Rihanna, but it wasn't just a normal picture. It was a picture of her with bruises and cuts all over. Chris Brown was convicted to be the one that beat her to within an inch of her life.



Now I'm not sure on how TMZ got the picture fromt he police files, but i sure as hell know it wasn't fair to Rihanna to put a picture of her up ont he internet. I mean sure she is the hip-hop goddess, but nobody deserves to have people judge her from her battered and beaten photo. There are an estimated 4.8 million domestic violence attacks on women a year, yet they decide to invade Rihanna's privacy because she is the one that everybody cares about. Notice how when Rihanna comes into the spotlight all beautiful and such, everyone cares. Notice how when Rihanna comes into the spotlight looking like she had just been his by a train, everyone still cares. Plus the police get involved right away. Now try to notice how when every other woman gets abused in the world today. Look how nobody gives a shit. Well I give a shit, I think it's stupid. Am I really the only one, to care about others, instead of celebrities. Sure seems like it.

So now, Rihanna and Chris Brown are married? When the fuck did this happen? That's probably the stupidest thing i've ever heard in my whole entire life. First, she hates him for beating her face in, and biting her. Then second, she gets the police involved, he gets arrested, and suddenly her record sales go up because peopel feel sorry for her misfortune, and finally now, she's getting back together, and married to chris brown? Oh my lord, people need to fuckign think once in a while. Was this just a plan to make more sympathy cash for their wedding?

UPDATE

Now apparently Rihanna is dating fellow hip-hop artist Drake. If you don't know him for his music such as, "I'm Still Fly" and "Brand New Remix ft. Lil Wayne", then you might know him as the guy who got shot or guy in the wheelchair on the hit Canadian TV show, Digrassi. Yes, this rapper/ actor has been seen in many places with Rihanna, and they're currently on the same record label. On the other side of things, nobody has really asked Rihanna about him, and there was only one interview with Drake where he said they were "Tight". Now I'm not too sure what that's supposed to mean but perhaps in the near future they will come out and tell us if the rumors are true. In other news about Rihanna, she is still going to court in the battle against Chris brown, so it is safe to say that they are offically over and the beautiful Rihanna is livign the single life as we know it. Good luck Drake. ;)

Tell me your thoughs.

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Copyrighting Crap!

Well this here is my 2nd blog and it's one that im not too happy about. In my opinion copyrighting sucks. ALOT. I mean sure people do have the rights to have full ownership over their own work, but when people are paying respect to them, it shouldnt matter too much because more than 50 % of the time people that like the new version will listen to the old version too.

My friend Curt and I have been making videos and uploading them to Youtube for our friends, and hopefully one day we can make a living off of it. But stupid copywriting laws have banned two of our videos from Youtube. One is called Steroid drink, it is about a young man who got beat up due to jealousy for he had a much cooler haircut than the one who was beating him up. Heres where the copyrighting comes into play. We were forced to either take down our video or risk having a video with no sound because the director for the movie "Team America- World Police" apparently copyrighted the song entitled "Montage" and it was in our video so Youtube wouldn't allow it. So 200 views seems like alot to us back then, and quite frankly we were pissed. Another incident was recently, we had uploaded a video just under a month ago called, "Look What I Found!" It's a Rick Rolled video. Unlike most i actually like a good rick roll. Now, getting back to the point, we got an notification email so we were like, oh shit, not this again. We logged on, not only to see, what else but an personal message from Youtube Service. It stated we had some sort of audio visual content from Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up" which is the song that identifies that you have just been Rick Rolled. The song is owned and licensed by Sony Music Entertainment so they are letting us keep the video as long as we have ads from google on the page of our video and in a little space underneath our video tags and discription, it says, "Contains Content From: Rick Astley Offical Channel. Not that big of a deal you may think. But wouldnt you be mad if somebody took credit from your video that you tried to create for fool and make people laugh? I know i would, and was. [1]

In Conclusion, the copyright law is acceptable obviously, but i still don't see why you need to state the obvious on someones video that is paying repect to you anyways. Without Rick Rolling, I'm not sure that Rick Astley would even be as famous as he is today.


http://www.youtube.com/copynotice?video_id=5J4AMxTeK44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J4AMxTeK44

www.youtube.com/happyturtlefilms

Gimme More Britney Spears!

As Britney Spears got older and more popular, people started asking, "What will she do next?". News people and paparazzi were shocked when they realized they could be a part of history, and a ton of cash while taking pictures of a surprising disaster in media history.

After her meltdown, the 2007 MTV Music Video Awards was supposed to be her "comeback" performance. But it didn't turn out the way anyone expected because people thought it was going to be really good, top of the charts material like all of her other performances in the past. People expected this performance to help her glide away from all the nasty incidents from the past years such as her shaving her head, getting numerous tattoos, and the custody battle between her and her ex-husband Kevin Federline. Unfortunately her performance was considered a train wreck and critics and paparazzi bashed her for her singing, her dancing and her body.

I for one, ultimately don't think it was right of them to judge her and call her fat because she's not really fat, just bigger than she used to be, but i do agree on the bad performance part of it. Britney Spears is on the top of the charts for many songs she sang but it would be hard to tell from this performance. The focus on her body image over her performance definitely gives an image of a cruel, harsh society that we live in. Nobody and I mean nobody, deserves to be treated like she got treated.

As the paparazzi used Britney Spears to make money, they also use many other celebrities and sometimes invade their privacy. Some celebrities are "fighting back" against the paparazzi to protect their privacy. I don't think its right that they are fighting for their privacy because they chose to be in the spotlight as their occupation. They brought it on themselves. They should expect their daily lives to be newsworthy. Some even draw attention to themselves just to stay in the spotlight, and Britney Spears actually dated a paparazzo.

Sometimes paparazzi take it too far, for example, a paparazzo drove into Lindsay Lohan's Mercedes just to get a picture of her reaction. [2] That's just too much for one picture if you ask me. I think it's just stupid to go out of your way to get arrested just to take a picture. Although, just one picture of Britney Spears can go from $250 for a picture of her at Starbucks, to $100, 000 or more. [4]

Here's what i thought was very interesting. The "Britney Law". The following quotation was posted on February 10th 2008.

"The initiative was proposed last week by Dennis Zine, and influential politicians, in the wake of the latest Britney Spears psychiatric emergency, when her ambulance was surrounded by police cars and helicopters to shield her from a crowd of 60 photographers... The city council will debate whether stars should be 'licensed' for protection by City Hall, a permit that could eclipse court-mandated ankle bracelets- equipped with a global positioning system transmitter- as status symbols." [5]

"The singer - who's been more infamous for her custody battles, rehab visits and last year's awards shambles in the last two years - looked both hot and healthy as she took out awards for Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year for her single 'Piece of Me' from last year's Blackout album." [6] In my opinion Britney Spears' performance at the MTV Awards was nothing short of amazing. She definitely upped her game since the 2007 awards and I think it paid off. It was definitely a positive performance.

I think that the paparazzi in the future should back off a little bit for the whereabouts of completely stalking people, but it's their decision i guess, I'm just here to talk about it. Finally I have reached the end of my blog, i can actually try and stop this nose bleed I've been having since i first started a couple hours back.

Julio, "Britney Spears Again in MTV VMA", http://deluxecelebrities.com/britney-spears-again-in-mtv-vma/britney-spears/ June 1st 2008, Deluxe Celebrities, Saturday February 21st 2009

Cindy Locke, "Paparazzi Crash into Lindsay Lohan's car", http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_8376.php June 1st 2005, M&C People, Saturday February 21st 2009

Emily, "Lindsay Lohan Smashes Paparazzi With Car",

http://www.theinsider.com/news/85267_Lindsay_Lohan_Smashes_Paparazzi_With_Car , January 3rd 2007, The Insider, Saturday February 21st 2009

Jeremy Herron, "The Britney Economy- from security costs to the ad revenue she generates, Brit is her own economy", http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/28/entertainment/main3761658.shtml , January 28th 2008, CBS News, Saturday February 21st 2009

John Harlow, " 'Britney Law' to give celebrities a safety bubble", http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3341791.ece , February 10th 2008, Times Online, Saturday February 21st 2009

Music Blog, " Britney Rules MTV Awards", http://www.2dayfm.com.au/entertainment/music/music-blog//blog/britney-rules-mtv-awards--read-the-wrapup/20080908-180f.html , September 8th 2008, 1041 2day, Saturday February 21st 2009