If her music were half as interesting as these photos I might actually buy some of it.
Pop star Rihanna stripped it down and edged it up for Italian Vogue this month in a freaky-deaky, bondage themed photo spread including a topless, sparkly pasty shot. You know? Just cause. Of course, like most starlets there are already nekkid pictures of her floating around on the interwebs, so that makes these shots a little less startling, but as Granny Snob would say, “Use it while you got it!” Or at least that was her defense of me to my mom when I wanted to wear a white denim miniskirt at 16.
I did wear my miniskirt, but, alas, male attention still made me highly uncomfortable at that age, so the skirt was retired almost as quickly as it was initially purchased.
Rihanna, obviously, is all too comfortable with the male gaze, otherwise she wouldn’t be modeling in the finest of fetish gear here. It sort of reminds me of Beyonce’s one metal glove, but Rihanna decided to take that glove and go all the way with its kinky promises.
I like high fashion editorial as an art form, so I actually liked these pictures as they are meant to freak you out and turn you on at the same time. But they also can be read as “Home Girl, You Are Trying Too Hard.” I mean, nothing says revenge like “look how great my rack is in these pasties and may you never, ever touch them again,” but … you all know what I mean. You basically can’t be anymore of the antithesis of Beyonce than this when you go the partial Monty, dead demented torture doll, dominatrix style.
Who wants to be a slave to this rhythm?
Live Your Best Life. 
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