When I first
watched Rihanna’s repulsive new video for her repulsive single, B***h
Better Have My Money, it had only had a couple of million views. It was
last Wednesday, in fact, shortly after Nick Grimshaw had mentioned it on
his Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
Even
Grimshaw seemed a little bit shocked — and he’s not exactly a prude. It
had made him feel ‘proper’ sick, he said. Hmm, I thought to myself.
Better check this one out.
Not
out of some desperate, sad-sack desire to keep up with the young, you
understand. But as the mother of a 12-year-old girl, I need to know
about these things.
What was it General Monty said? ‘Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.’ Never were truer words spoken.
And
since motherhood these days seems to involve fighting a losing battle
against the endless stream of filthy, violent and downright misogynistic
images being rained down on children’s heads from all variety of
different media, I make it my mission to know about these things. Even
at the detriment of what remains of my sanity.
So
after I’d finished the school run, I made myself a cup of strong coffee
and logged on to Vevo — the free-to-view, uncensored music video
streaming channel used by most pop artists — to watch it.
Like I said,
by then it had received ‘only’ a couple of million hits (a mere
bagatelle in terms of the reach of a global ‘superstar’ such as
Rihanna); but it didn’t take me long to realise it was going to get a
lot more.
As I watched, I actually felt my pulse quicken in anger.
By
the time it had finished, I wondered whether I ought not to report her
to the police. Charges: pornography, incitement to violence, racial
hatred.
Deep breath now: I shall try to describe it without completely ruining your Monday morning.
A
rich, blonde, white woman with expensive hair and even more expensive
breast implants is putting the finishing touches to her toilette.
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