Photos – LOUD Tour – Ottawa, June 8
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Rihanna Earns Diva Status
The Ottawa Citizen reviews yesterday’s Ottawa LOUD Show:
“Here’s a prediction: Rihanna’s transformation from bashful island girl to pop superstar will be complete by the time she wraps up the 2011 edition of her Loud tour later this year. How come? Because Wednesday’s concert at Scotiabank Place, just four shows into the worldwide excursion, was a spectacle worthy of a true diva.
After a futuristic opening segment that involved four large circular screens, the leggy Rihanna emerged from a sphere in a bright blue mini coat that provided a striking contrast against her mane of red curls. The first song, Only Girl (In the World), isn’t her strongest but with all the activity on stage, it hardly mattered. The four round screens were like highly engineered moons rising over the stage, plus there was a vast screen backdrop, a conveyor belt across the front of the stage, and a hole that swallowed her up for costume changes. Beneath the ridiculous amount of staging were the musicians and singers of her band.
The Barbados-born singer cruised through the songs Disturbia, Shut Up and Drive and Man Down, which didn’t have nearly as much of an impact as the controversial video in which Rihanna murders the man who assaulted her. The proceedings took a masculine edge when Rihanna emerged in trousers and tux, prodding her dancers with a cane. That led to the raunchy choreography of S&M, a tune so catchy that you can’t help but sing along to the line, “Whips and chains excite me.”
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LOUD Summer Tour 2011 Meet & Greet, Toronto, Canada – June 6th
Rihanna poses with fans backstage at the Meet & Greet before performing in Toronto.
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