14 DAY TRIAL // For someone who spends so much time in the spotlight, Rihanna is quite obstinate about not talking on certain topics. One of them would be her recent collaborations with her ex, Chris Brown, and how her fans might have interpreted them, as an Esquire UK journalist recently found out.
Almost three years after they broke up (officially, at least), Rihanna and Chris Brown got back in the studio to work on two songs, remixes for his and her album.
The move was harshly criticized in the press, by critics and fans alike, but Rihanna maintains that she did nothing wrong – and, most importantly, that there's no sense in talking about it over and over again.
The Esquire UK journalist interviewing her for the latest issue of the mag either doesn't get that or is deliberately trying to provoke her.
Either way, Rihanna is not pleased with how the discussion is going.
“Well… definitely. Definitely,” she says when asked whether she was surprised by how people reacted to the 2 remixes she did with Brown.
“The whole thing caught me a little off-guard to be honest… especially the amount of… negative attention. Because it never occurred to me how this was going to be a problem, you know. It really didn’t,” she adds.
“I thought people were gonna be surprised that we finally did a record together, but I didn’t see how people could think it was a bad thing, you know? In my mind, it was just music,” the pop star goes on to say.
She hates it that people assumed she went back to Chris Brown as his girlfriend just because she recorded new music with him, and she obviously hates it when people can't – or won't – make the difference between her as a woman and her as a pop star.
“That’s how [expleive]-ed up society is. There’s a lot of [expletive] y’all can’t get over. Y’all holding your breath on a lot of stuff that doesn’t matter. When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living,” she says, already starting to lose her temper.
“I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me – and God. This is turning into a tacky interview. What do you really want to talk about? I’m not here to [talk] about messy [expletive],” she adds.
The interview ends with Rihanna scolding the journalist for not asking the right questions and for not having done proper research before the meeting with her.
She also makes it crystal clear that she hates it when journalists “keep asking the same kind of questions about stuff that’s trivial.”
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