Rihanna was named Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive today. The Barbados-born singer has dominated pop music for the past five years, making headlines yesterday by beating Madonna’s Top 10 chart record
About her sexuality on stage:
“At the end of a concert, I don’t feel like I’ve been this sexy thing. Really, I don’t even think about it. Unless it’s a song that really calls for it, like ‘Skin’ or ‘S&M,’ or when I cover Darling Nikki,’” she allows. “There’s a section that’s called ‘Sex’ in the show, which is the obvious section for sexuality.”
Rihanna loves choosing men from the audience to grind on stage:
“Like, really? Honestly, even if it comes across sexual — it has to be a part of my subconscious thought,” Rihanna says. “It’s never deliberate in the rest of the show. I don’t even really… I could see ‘What’s My Name?’ — the dancing is pretty sexy. ‘Rude Boy.’ But I don’t know. I guess people find different things sexy.”
In an interview with Glamour earlier this month; there, she at least allowed that she was being sexy, even if it was a character she was playing.
“That’s not me. That’s a part I play. You know, like it’s a piece of art, with all these toys and textures to play with,” she said. “See, people … they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me, and [being a role model] became more of my job than I wanted it to be. But no, I just want to make music. That’s it.”
The star also speaks about the infamous Chris Brown incident, in which he, as her boyfriend in 2009, beat her bloody.
“It’s incredible to see how he pulled out of it the way he did. Even when the world seemed like it was against him, you know? I really like the music he’s putting out,” she says. “I’m a fan of his stuff. I’ve always been a fan. Obviously, I had some resentment toward him for a while, for obvious reasons. But I’ve put that behind me. It was taking up too much of my time. It was too much anger. I’m really excited to see the breakthrough he’s had in his career. I would never wish anything horrible for him. Never. I never have.”
Posted Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at 7:07am
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For OUT’s November cover story, True Blood star Alexander Skarsgård chats with filmmaker and fellow Swede Jonas Åkerlund about why Swedes are so liberal regarding their sexuality, the American media’s obsession with nudity, and the how the his progressive HBO series is changing attitudes in the U.S.
Skarsgård recognizes that even True Blood, considered envelope-pushing in America, remains “very tame, by Swedish standards.” He tells OUT “…that always strikes me as weird because parents in the States freak out if their kids see a nipple or a butt cheek, but, at the same time, they’re OK with their kids watching people bash each other’s heads in with baseball bats. In interviews in the U.S. all people want to talk about is nudity…. If it makes sense as a scene, I’ll do it. I don’t even think about it.”
Skarsgård also applauds True Blood creator Alan Ball for challenging America’s attitudes. “Yeah, well, we’ve really come a long way. What’s interesting is when you have a character like Lafayette, who’s black and gay, if you can find someone – some guy who doesn’t know any gay people or black people, who may have all these prejudices – if that guy watches the show and thinks, I really like this character, then you’ve done something pretty good.”
What Skarsgård misses from his homeland, however, is the creative freedoms and what that freedom brings with it. “It’s a combination of a good school system and the long, dark winters. Because that means people sit in their garages and play music for five months because it’s too cold and dark to be outside.” After Åkerlund interjects that the long winters create “boning season,” Skarsgård quickly agrees. “And that’s also why we’re so liberal and so cool with our sexuality – because we f*ck a lot [laughter],” he says. “When you’re bored, just have sex.”
Has actor Matthew McConaughey finally proposed to his longtime girlfriend Camila Alves? Since they began dating in 2006, the couple have two children together. Son Levi was born in 2008, and daughter Vida was born in 2010.
Are they engaged – or did they secretly get married? Here they are arriving in LAX after a trip.
Sandra Bullock and her son Louis put their best pirate faces forward as they donned some pirate attire to attend a party in California. Louis looked adorable in his pirate getup, complete with skull bandana and balloon sword. And not one to sit on the sidelines, Bullock also got in on the action, rocking a leather pirate hat.
I don’t know if I buy any of the Beyonce prosthetic baby bump stories. However, I can’t really explain what happened to Beyonce’s baby bump on an appearance on Sunday Night last night.
Tweets are rolling in about Beyonce’s appearance last night, which shows what looks to be a fake baby bump collapse as she sits down.
Rumors have been swirling around since she revealed a big baby bump on the MTV Music Video Awards. Many suggest Beyonce will wear a prosthetic bump until a surrogate can carry her baby to term..
Watch the video below!
Posted Monday, October 10th, 2011 at 1:13pm
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