Wow, I'm saddened at these comments and how easily manipulated our generation has been by the industry (music and beyond).

Wake up my friends, this interview is a product placement in itself! The product however is less subtle. The product is an idea: rebellion against conformity through changes in physical appearances. More overtly, she is promoting her new album.

I think people forget how much of a puppet Rihanna (and many mainstream "artists") is. The admission of product placements in her videos is shocking in itself. Don't you think her record label and PR would be enraged if she said something like that?

Well, they aren't because she isn't rebelling at all. In fact they probably told her to, as part of her new counter-culture persona, to say something shocking and anti-conformist. This makes her seem relatable and not a pawn of the industry. It makes her seem as if she's wise to the puppeteers that control society and understands the struggle to be and individual in a suppressed society. She understands you.

We have to be aware that this icon Rihanna is just a collection of hairdos, dark nail polish, racy and sexual lyrics that are meticulously calculated. Every interview, every red carpet event, every photo, she is being cultivated by her label. She is not a true individual because she knows of the injustice of manipulation, yet she would rather be altered and used as a commodity than fight for her freedom to be herself. Its also highly ridiculous that her view of rebellion is changing her hairstyle.

Finally, in this interview, she is also selling the idea that mass ad compaigns that manipulate and saturate our entertainment, our unwanted but unavoidable. She is saying that it is a "political" motive that we "have to" endure. Basically she's giving up her power to stand up. She's saying that we should just accept these maniupulations because we have no power to change them. Wrong Rihanna! We don't have to accept or buy into anything! We don't have to believe in conformity as well as you don't have to give up your creativity as an artist for monetary reasons.

The label isn't evil, and neither is Rihanna, but we need to take back our indiviudality. We need to take a step back and really think literally about what messages we're being fed in corporate America.