Rihanna Needs to Check Herself

Is it me, or is Rihanna wearing less and less over the past four months? She is almost naked these days. And, her suggestive dancing wearing almost nothing is beginning to have me concerned about her.

I used to say that she reminds me of a stripper without a pole. Yet she did me proud when she actually slid up and down a stripper pole at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards. She was on one side, and Britney Spears was poling up and down the other. Her clothing and body movements when she sings her songs leave very little to the imagination. No one except Minister Louis Farrakhan has taken note of it.

Rihanna started in the business at age sixteen, two years after her parents divorced. She was spirited away from her home in Barbados to live with record producer Evan Rogers in Connecticut, someone neither she nor her parents really knew from Adam.

Whoever discovered her must have seen dollar signs in her. If she has a self-esteem problem, I think she needs to get a grip on it. No one is going to say wardrobe malfunction, because there’s one out there about to happen.

Rihanna shows far more than what Janet Jackson did. She leaves almost nothing to the imagination. Is this where the music industry is going, with half naked women prancing around pole dancing to music? Even Myley Cyrus actually did a pole dance in barely there shorts singing about America.

It seems like just like rap artists singing worse and worse about the n-word and bitches and ho’s, the industry is going to let Rihanna show everything, camel toe and all. Until one day, her costume just falls off her body. Then depending upon which channel she’s on, there will either be an outrage, or smirks behind her back. Because after all, it seems like no one really cares about her reputation. Even herself.

Tina Turner never wore such scanty clothing. But she did leave enough for the imagination to take over. Rihanna just puts it out there.

No one can dispute her ability to sell records. Rihanna has recorded only 5 albums, but sold over 15 million albums and 45 million singles worldwide. She has achieved nine number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since first appearing on the chart on June 11, 2005, which is the most by any artist during that time span. As of March 18, 2011, Rihanna has sold approximately 6 million album units and over 28 million digital singles in the US.

The more clothes she takes off, the less she becomes a legitimate singer. How can one hear what she is singing when you are mesmerized by her clothes and body. Will something fall off? When? Lord, I hope something tears or fall off. We wait for what hasn’t happened yet. Maybe this is why she is so popular. We are waiting for the day her clothes just fall around her ankles, then it will all be out there, including her 13 tattoos.

Does Rihanna really feel good about herself? What does she think when she is asked to wear less and less and perform more like a whore on stage? She acts like she doesn’t care about herself. She looks the same in every video and performance. Dead eyes, I don’t care attitude, I’m just here for the check.

She is only 23 years old as of February 2011. I don’t know where her mother is. Her father clearly doesn’t care about her. What plagues me is that every time I see her, whether on stage, in a video, on the red carpet, I feel sorry for her. I hope that one day she will wake up and realize that she is being used by the music industry to sell CDs.