STOCKHOLM, Sweden — It's so weird how 48 hours ago feels like it happened to someone else. Mexico City is a blur. Toronto, and the wee, indie movie theater-ish venue with its punctual crowd and assigned seating, is a distant memory. We've bee...]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:04:56 GMT https://rihanna.1s.lv/?s=17&id=25 https://rihanna.1s.lv/?s=17&id=24
The 13th word of the first verse of the first song on “Unapologetic,” the seventh album by Rihanna, is a curse, and she relishes it, hitting the syllables hard, spitting them out sharply as if she hoped they might wound someone. The song, “Phresh Out the Runway,” is a chaotically dense spray of boasts over a muscular, scraping beat. Rihanna sounds indignant and impressed with herself, proclaiming, “Walk up in t...]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:02:41 GMT https://rihanna.1s.lv/?s=17&id=24 https://rihanna.1s.lv/?s=17&id=23
ihanna‘s 777 Tour gig in Toronto on Thursday night went on right as scheduled, but she kept her Swedish audience waiting on Friday (November 16) by hitting the stage at Berns nightclub two hours and 45 minutes late. However, if the crowd was antsy, you wouldn’t have known it, as their chanting for the singer during the tail-end of opener DJ Congorock...]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:58:40 GMT https://rihanna.1s.lv/?s=17&id=23 https://rihanna.1s.lv/?s=17&id=22

Does Rihanna ever sleep? She’s released an album a year since 2009, plus she’s appeared on various remixes and other artists’ cuts as a featured singer since her 2005 debut. Where does she find the time?