In The World

Hey, Were You Looking Under Rhianna’s Umbrella, Too?

While I was Busy Looking for Ela’s Whereabouts

…Justin Timberlake shows up! I’m reading day after day that word has it in Hollywood that Justin and Rhianna are together. Perhaps, for me, this brings a bit of closure to all the suspense that seemed built up around the fact that Chris Brown refused to say much about their intimacy, or privacy, in the aftermath of violence that he wage upon her a few months ago: in the post-ambiance of circumstances that led him to believe he needn’t have explained why he had beat her as he had. Was Chris truly to blame for his senselessness? Becoming that someone who was jealous because of the notion that Justin was moving into his territory following his video work with Rhianna? Or was she surely that good girl gone bad?: and, then, Chris simply freaked out totally about it all.

However, I can’t seem to feel dubious about her merger with Justin Timberlake. In public appearances, I’ve always found Rhianna a genuine personae and classy act. And I have hardly doubted that she wasn’t a stark talent, and she has an inner and outer beauty that must be capable of overwhelming anyone who lands their eyes upon her: be they male or female.

I say this using my words rather intentionally. For a while, e.g., I felt that she was very much her own person. Very much a loner and very independent and individualist: one who would not care to go the way of the traditionalist. Sixteen is a very early age for an island girl to go off in the world as she did.

For a long while I felt that she was even capable of enacting openly in bi-sexual relationships, esp. after the lyrics “under my umbrella: Ela Ela Ela” were tossed out onto the world some years back. I’m sure the lesbians undoubtedly loved the lyrics. (And that I only knew one Ela: my sister-in-law, the song got my fantasy going each and every time I heard it on the air. And it was on the air incessantly in Europe. So the lyrics got my hindsight buzzing from the get-go! Oh, and remember, during her single years there was that one girlfriend that was constantly at her side at galas and many other celebrity functions.) I couldn’t help but think that, maybe, it just might have been that Chris found out about such a liaisons with another woman and went off on her as he did. It’s still one of those “Homosocial” taboos too many of us in America just cannot savory; swallow; and then get on out into the open with.

But suddenly, Justin’s in the picture. Puzzling? I don’t think so: for as we all seem to know, Justin has been out to attain such an exotic, cultivated, post-Caribbean-prize for some years now.

Well, at least for now, I guess the paparazzi [nor I] wouldn’t be secretly scouting about underneath her umbrella in search for Ela.