Rihanna Role Model Status Revoked

March 17. 2009

Rihanna and Chris Brown

Singer Rihanna's role model status is being revoked, due to the assault case involving her boyfriend Sony Music artist Chris Brown.

Many publications, websites and blogs are now calling her a very poor role model, much like Brown and the public agrees, as many have voiced their disappointment in her conduct, for not only hitting Brown, which precipitated the fight, after a text message on his phone she read without permission, but going back to him right after the vicious brawl.

Whether one wants to be a role model or not, becoming a public figure, especially one whose audience is mostly teens and the youth demographic in general, automatically signed one up for it.

Chris Brown

Furthermore, as one writer pointed out, Rihanna was named a "Youth and cultural ambassador" for her homeland of Barbados. Sorry, but I'm sure you have people more deserving. Rihanna has been doing some very reckless, unethical and questionable things since her debut that virtually guaranteed this day would come.

As for Chris Brown, he started off well in his career, but at the end of the day, the public does not know who either one of them are as people. It's not wise to idolize stars.

Yes, we're all human and make mistakes, but I've often found celebrities to be worse than the average person. They live very indulgent lives and many of them quickly develop the mindset they can do anything they please, even if it is illegal and causes someone else injury.  

At the end of the day, how much of a role model can one be if one stole one's image and music from others, slept with two well-known record producers for favorable songs (The Dream The Nightmare, who bragged about it publicly while she dated Chris Brown and Kanye "Not Sure If He's Gay Today" West), slept with a woman beating, faux CEO for a record deal (Jay-Z), bragged in publications about being a money grubbing deviant, obsessed with your bank account, pathetically derived from ripping off other artists' copyrights and trademarks and joined a sick cult, Kabbalah, known for assaulting and murdering people.

When people rise to prominence in such an unethical, uncouth manner, they always fall farther than they rose.

Rihanna’s Saga Reaches Fake End

March 17, 2009 - … Although, we do wonder what this means for Rihanna’s charge as Barbados’ Youth and Cultural Ambassador. As that mints her place as role model and begs the question: How do you hock up a happy ending to this mess? They could do what Michael Jackson did when the media opened fire: Skip town, relocate to Dubai, and re-emerge in about 15 years to stage a comeback show somewhere in Europe, where no one ever really cared too much about the brutal dark comedy of their relationship anyways.

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For Better Or Worse, Rihanna Is A Role Model

By Dodai, 4:00 PM on Mon Mar 16 2009 - Mark Harris, the former executive editor of Entertainment Weekly, has written a piece for the magazine titled "Rihanna Is NOT A Role Model." Unfortunately, he's wrong….

While there's no doubt that young people use their parents, teachers and relatives as role models as well, they definitely look up to celebrities. But they're quick to be disappointed when celebs let them down. Revlon knows this, which is why they're curious as to whether or not Rihanna has damaged Cover Girl's brand image.

The two cosmetics companies are competitors (a point many commenters missed when we posted about it earlier), and Revlon is probably secretly hoping that people will see Rihanna's Cover Girl ads and not want to buy what she is selling. Rihanna was chosen to be a Cover Girl model because she had a gorgeous face, a bright future and young girls loved her. She became not only a role model but a literal model, and her face is in living rooms all over this country. Isn't it like Uncle Ben told Peter Parker: With great power comes great responsibility? Isn't Rihanna a role model? Or, do we treat her like we did Britney, Lindsay and Paris: Now that we don't like what she's done, we must tear her down, and declare her not that important to begin with

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