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Rihanna Declined To Perform At The Super Bowl In Support Of Colin Kaepernick


Rihanna has never been a woman to shy away from her values. Which is why we aren’t really surprised the “Umbrella” singer gave a hard pass to performing at next year’s Super Bowl Halftime show.

According to a report in Us Weekly, the NFL reportedly approached Rihanna to be its 2019 halftime entertainer. But she declined the offer as she’s firmly in support of Colin Kaepernick.

“The NFL and Fox really wanted Rihanna to be next year’s performer in Atlanta,” an unidentified source shared with Us Weekly. “They offered it to her, but she said no because of the kneeling controversy. She doesn’t agree with the NFL’s stance. She supports Colin Kaepernick.”

Kaepernick, as you may recall, famously kneeled during the national anthem during his time as the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers as a way to peacefully protest police violence in America against the black community.

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media in 2016. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

At the time, the NFL stated, “…we recognize the right of an individual to choose and participate, or not, in our celebration of the national anthem.” His coach Chip Kelly added that Kaepernick’s decision not to stand during the national anthem is “his right as a citizen” and “it’s not my right to tell him not to do something.”

However, Kaepernick went into free agency the following year and his contract was not renewed. He has never received an offer from another team, a move that he feels the NFL perpetrated by blacklisting him from the sport. Kaepernick filed a collusion grievance against thee NFL.

After Rihanna said thanks but no thanks, the NFL reportedly moved on and asked Maroon 5 to put on the show instead. They reportedly agreed, though no confirmation has come from either the NFL or the band.

As for who may join them onstage, Us Weekly reported that the band has Cardi B in mind.

“She is definitely being considered, but it’s obviously way too early to say for sure,” another source added. “Pepsi, the NFL and Cardi are all interested in her performing more than just her ‘Girls Like You’ verse.”

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Rihanna Is Here to Convince You That Blue Highlighter Actually Looks Amazing


Fenty Beauty is dropping products so quickly, it’s impossible to keep up. After surprising fans with four new shades of Stunna Lip Paint, the brand just announced its new-new for the holidays, and—well—it’s a doozy. Fenty is releasing its first highlighter palette.

Last night, Rihanna made an appearance in Sydney, Australia where she revealed the first (in what’s sure to be much more to come) of Fenty’s #CHILLOWT holiday collection. The seven-pan palette includes just about every shade of highlighter under the rainbow, which we mean quite literally. The Killawatt Foil Palette contains metallic purple, pink, white, red, orange, bronze, and blue (yep) options available to aid in your glow-up. And, like all of Fenty’s products, they can be used pretty much however you deem fit.

Fans, as you can imagine, have been going rightly bonkers over it online. “OH HELL YES!!! THIS IS GOING TO BE MINE,” one user commented on Instagram. “Ri Ri really out her got me buying more highlighter ok goodbye wig, goodbye bank account,” shared another.

The palette is launching at midnight on October 4 (so basically tonight) for anyone who lives in Australia or New Zealand. The rest of us have to wait until October 12 when it start rolling out in Sephora stores in the U.S. and online. According to the brand, this is only just the beginning from the collection. So buckle up, Rih-mas is looking good this year.

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Women Are Praising Rihanna for Creating a 'Universal Nude' Lip in Chocolate Brown


Rihanna and her team have proven time and time again that Fenty Beauty is here to shake up the beauty industry and push for more inclusivity. This time, the brand is taking on the idea of a “universal nude” by offering a new shade of its Stunna Lip Paint in a rich brown chocolate. Rihanna secretly wore the latest Stunna Lip Paint—which is called “Unveil”—at her Savage x Fenty fashion show during New York Fashion Week, and the brand took to social media on Friday to announce the addition: “@badgalriri tested SEVERAL shades before landing on this rich chocolate brown that looks good on EVERYBODY!”

“Get ready for this universal chocolate BO$$ nude, that comes in your favorite lip paint formula and dries in a soft-matte finish,” another Instagram caption reads. “One swipe of this liquid lip is enough to get you a long-lasting lip that’ll catch every eye!”

Soon after, women on Twitter were quick to note what this means for women of color and share their appreciation. “Rihanna dropped a ‘universal nude’ in a shade called ‘chocolate’. We are the Fenty default,” one fan wrote. “Never in my life have I been part of the standard or default. Rihanna really did that,” another praised.

As Glamour pointed out earlier this year, consumers have begun to demand a more inclusive selection of nude makeup. The popular social media hashtag #notmynude called out most “universal” shades for excluding women of color, an issue that Fenty Beauty has addressed since the company’s start. Fenty’s inaugural 40-shade foundation range earned the brand praise—not to mention Time magazine’s award for “Invention of the Year“—and led other brands to follow suit with inclusive shade ranges of their own.

Fans can get their hands on it themselves for $24 at Sephora and Fentybeauty.com.





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Rihanna Designed a Savage X Fenty Lingerie Capsule to Benefit Her Foundation—And Everything's Under $100


With her inaugural Savage X Fenty lingerie show, Rihanna really flipped the script on New York Fashion Week—with an incredibly diverse cast (and immersive performance experience), a model in labor, impressive social media engagement… And she’s riding all that buzz to announce a brand-new launch for the label—and one with a deeply personal meaning for the performer and designer.

Savage X Fenty released a limited-edition capsule collection benefitting the Clara Lionel Foundation, the non-profit Rihanna founded in 2012 (and is named after her grandparents) that benefits education and emergency response programs globally.

PHOTO: Courtesy of Savage X Fenty

There are three pieces: a cotton tank top, logo bikini bottom, and satin robe. They bear a custom logo (which you can see most clearly on the robe) that marries the world of Savage X Fenty with that of the organization.

PHOTO: Courtesy of Savage X Fenty

“This sleepwear set is stylish and comfortable. But more than that, when you wear it you know you have taken a stand and given back to an incredible cause,” Rihanna said in a statement. As with all Savage X Fenty drops, the capsule comes in a size-inclusive range of XS through 3X. The tank top and bikini bottom are sold as a set for $63, while the robe retails for $68.

PHOTO: Courtesy of Savage X Fenty

Rihanna has used her companies and brand affiliations to benefit the Clara Lionel Foundation in the past. This Savage X Fenty capsule joins the Fenty Killawatt Diamond Ball-Out, Fenty x Puma Clara Lionel Women’s Creeper, and Dior’s We Should All Be Feminists T-shirt in fundraising for the organization.

You can shop the CLF for Savage X Fenty capsule online, or at the brand’s two pop-up U.S. shops: in New York (577 Broadway) and in the Mall of America (60 E Broadway, Suite N166.)

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Rihanna Looks Like an Actual Barbie in This Ruffled Hot Pink Gown


All weeks are probably good when you’re Rihanna, but this past one especially has been something. The singer/beauty mogul/designer showed her debut Savage x Fenty lingerie show at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday, and promptly followed up the iconic event with another one: her fourth annual Diamond Ball on Thursday, for which she wore an incredible lace catsuit. But this is Rihanna, so even that doesn’t justify an evening crashed on the couch with Netflix: On Friday, she rightfully celebrated the one-year anniversary of her Fenty cosmetics line, which has in a very short time brought a wave of change to the beauty industry.

She teased the magnificent dress we’re about to talk about—because it needs to be talked about—on her way to Fenty’s birthday celebration, held at a JCPenney Sephora location in Brooklyn. How else but with a few Instagram stories?

RiRi stepped out at the event in a strapless Calvin Klein by Appointment gown with major nineties vibes—and a boatload of ruffles cascading along the dress’s hemlines and thigh-high slit. But as remarkable as the dress’s construction was, it was the color that stood out: an eye-popping fuchsia that doesn’t look all that dissimilar from Fenty’s Starlit Hyper-Glitz Lipstick in Gravity. Check it out, below—and the pointy hot-pink heels she pairs with it like a boss:

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur

Although we can’t be sure that this bespoke dress was inspired by that lipstick (or that it wasn’t) it was just as extra as you’d expect for a birthday party at Sephora. Note the Fenty kabuki brush chair and life-sized Diamond Bomb mirror, below:

Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Fenty Beauty

Her fans, obviously, loved it too:

Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

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Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

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Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

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Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

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Rihanna Celebrates Fenty Beauty's 1-Year Anniversary At Sephora Inside JCPenney

PHOTO: Kevin Mazur

We’re already saving the date for the 21st birthday. Rihanna, don’t forget our invite.

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Get Ready: New Rihanna Music Is Coming


Rihanna—the singer—is back. The multi-hyphenate seems to have grown weary of singlehandedly disrupting entire industries according to her whims, and now appears to be hard at work on some new music. The news comes courtesy of her very own Instagram Stories, where she posted one picture, one video, and one Boomerang showing her in front of the mic. It looks like she isn’t holding back, either: In the posts, she’s traded in her Met Gala-destroying looks for a T-shirt and white-rimmed sunglasses. She also captioned the Boomerang, “Vamp: when breakfast becomes dinner.” She remained otherwise wordless, supposing correctly that the visuals alone would cause the Internet to implode.

It’s unclear whether Rihanna has returned to the studio for a mere late-summer hit or a full album, but she previously gave fans a sneak peek at her musical projects in the works. For her June cover of British Vogue, she revealed that she plans to make a reggae album, with a possible collaborator in record producer Supa Dups. Then, in July, Rolling Stone reported, based on conversations with multiple unnamed sources, that she apparently has two albums on the cutting board: One “devoted to exploring [her] Caribbean roots,” and another that’s “pop-oriented.” Rolling Stone also reported that two unnamed sources have “confirmed” Supa Dups’s involvement, and that Rihanna has gotten a “large number of demos” from top dancehall and reggae producers and singers, including, reportedly, the duo R. City, Stephen “Di Genius” McGregor, Linton “TJ Records” White, Ricky Blaze, Tyshane “Beam” Thompson, Kranium, and Chronixx.

PHOTO: badgalriri/Instagram Stories

Rihanna Is Working on a New Album 2

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“[Rihanna’s team] have, no lie, 500 records for this project [from] different producers and writers,” one anonymous dancehall producer told Rolling Stone. “They’re only choosing 10 records. They’ve been having writing camps and trying to keep them quiet for almost a year and a half now. I’ve been flying to Miami, flying to L.A., cutting records nonstop for this project.”

“Every artist, every producer, every songwriter in Jamaica or of Jamaican descent has been working on [Rihanna’s album] and has little snippets of publishing or production credits on it,” another anonymous source added.

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