Billboard Pens Open Letters to Rihanna & Chris Brown, Were They Right?
It’s clear that the music world just can’t leave Chris Brown and Rihanna alone. Just a day after it was announced that the pair would reunite on RihRih’s upcoming track, “Birthday Cake,” many are not only debating whether or not the two get back together, but if they should even work together at all.
We all know the facts.
Just three years ago Chris Brown put a beatdown on Rihanna that was so brutal folks will never forget it. While the pop star says she’s forgiven Brown and wishes him well, many of her fans (and folks in general), won’t let it go. And I’ll admit, I’m one of them.
No matter how talented Brown is and how many times he asks us to move on already, I can’t. Sorry.
But I know I’m not alone.
Today, Billboard magazine posted two open letters to Rihanna and Chris Brown, imploring them to live by the words they speak and to grow the hell up already.
In his letter to Rih, writer Jason Lipshutz challenges her to “Talk that Talk.”
“…the news about CB dropping by your “Birthday Cake” remix… damn. Three years and nine days later, it is officially implied that, no matter if you two are “single” or “in a relationship” or “it’s complicated,” a token of forgiveness has been earned by Brown. And that’s not cool, to a whole lot of people.
Look, you could do this one song with Brown and never work with him again, or go record “Watch The Pop Throne” with him. You two could become a couple again and get married in Vegas next week. Maybe you want none of those things, or all of those things; you certainly have the right to do any of those things. In your words, “there’s only one you, so just be that.” Do you, Rihanna!
But, in all honesty… you can’t do you, Rihanna. Not here. Not with Chris Brown. Because like it or not, millions of people are paying attention to you, trying to be as cool as you, attempting to find love in a hopeless place and wondering if it’s okay to walk down the same dark alleyway twice. Young girls look up to people like you to guide them through circumstances too complex for them to tackle on their own, and by granting Chris Brown an iota of tolerance, you implicitly encourage others to consider doing the same.
Well damn.
Pages: 1 2
34 Comments – Add Yours
Latest Articles
Most Popular This Week
Recent Comments
-
Natalie on
#PayYourBillsDiddy? Photographer Takes to Twitter to Get Diddy to Pay Up
Hmm. I know what it's like to have to jump through flaming hoops to get paid. It's humiliating and degrading. I'm not sure what happened...
-
African Mami on
Ballin on a Budget! Stay-cation Bus Etiquette 101
I've taken the bus twice down south. NIGHTMARE! Urrrrrrrgh! I got tales.
-
African Mami on
Scrapbooking – Writing A Letter To The Future
@ Donnie!!!! Awwwww soooooo sorrry for your loss!!!!! e-hugs!!!!! Scrapbooking is too much for me, I'd rather knit and crochet. I get...
-
aedivine on
Honor Student Suing NYPD for Racial Profiling, False Arrest
I'm a 21 year old 5'4 African American women,and if two strange men reversed their car and shouted "get them!" at me and my friend? i don't...
Just one question……….was the collabo officially annouced/confirmed by Rhianna or Chris Brown’s camp? It is my understanding that no official statement has been given by either so yeah all this over a rumor is a bit much.
i love these people who try to intervene with some weak sauce ‘we shouldn’t care what they do’. who believed that bout too shorts teachings? no one here.
celebs are walking, talking billboards. they advertise products and affect popular culture. what they do does have consequence. it’s just that people are so undisciplined that they wouldn’t dare boycott artists that do stupid shit.
rihanna getting back with that sociopath – particularly on a song like this REALLY sends the worst kind of message about dating abuse. it makes it HARDER for parents to do their jobs and we all should be very concerned about that.
Who allows their daughter to look up to Rihanna?
I am a fan of Rihanna, but I am 22 years old. I do not promote my 11 year old sister to listen to Rihanna or many other stars. We cannot keep blaming them for not being good role models when that is not what they signed up to be. She’s an entertainer not a politician.
As far as her relationship, we all should know, especially the women on here, that a woman will do whatever SHE wants to do when it comes to her situation with her man regardless of if its right or wrong. If you have been in love/or intense lust before you know that you do not always make the best decisions.
Instead of criticizing her let’s pray that she has made the best decision for her and if he truly does love her and has gotten help that he does not repreat his mistakes. We are human and we cannot help who we love; some people fall in love with good men while others unfourtanelty fall in love when men who aren’t so good. Thats what makes it so complicated.
Let them have their personal lives and relationship journey. They will figure it out. It’s her life, we do not own rights to her life or her decisions.
Rihanna is an idiot.
The saddest part of this is the language. Billboard, a respected music bible in the past, lowers itself by sounding like a teenage girl, full of stupid hip hop terms. Black music used to be so glorious…soul, rhythm and blues, funk, disco. Now it’s just crap, the same rubbish every year and each video just has to have more and more skin. Sadly, most young people are too blindsided by this to know what real music is. Blah.