Another day, another Rihanna controversy.
Just weeks after being accused of unlawfully plagiarizing concepts from Cee Lo Green‘s ‘No one’s Gonna Love You‘ visual, today saw the Island beauty come under further fire for the well received music video.
She has been branded a ‘bad role model’ by the Ulster Cancer Foundation for the role they say she plays in endorsing smoking.
Full explanation below…
According to the Irish charity:
We are very concerned that young people watching the video will see smoking as glamorous and want to copy Rihanna’s behavior.
Artists like her are held in high esteem and regarded as role-models by millions of young people.
Going onto add:
After so much hype around the filming of the video it was very disappointing to see Rihanna so blatantly smoking throughout it.
Three-quarters of adult smokers start the habit as teenagers, which is why it is so irresponsible of her to influence her young fan base in this way.
Here’s the thing:
While some would agree with the UFC’s view that artists like Ms. Fenty are immensely influential and thus should take care not to ‘lead their fans astray’, the age old question remains:
Is it really the job of celebrities to raise children?
Yes, there is little doubt that clips like ‘Love’ glamorize and romanticize smoking, however if all it takes is the media to sway a person into picking up the deadly habit, perhaps the real issue at hand is the lack of backbone and individuality many would agree is exhibited time and time again in modern society.
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lol please
Sam, the girl is in the hospital right now.
Could you try to act like a human being for a change?
Rihanna admits herself she aint a role model.
And on this day, not a SINGLE F*** WAS GIVEN.
OMG….Will these people leave Rihanna alone….like DAMN !
There are way worse videos than We Found Love
We Found Love tells a story about a young rebel couple who gets influenced by drugs, s**, alcohol, and other sinful things….she is telling a story about how these things are bad for you…and you shouldnt do them AT ALL !!!!!!! I DONT THINK THAT SHE WOULD BE THAT COLD AND HEARTLESS to promote drugs, cigarettes, and anything else bad in a GOOD WAY !!!!!!!!
And also..the girl is in the hospital and you post this crap….just to throw it out there…no harm !
LEAVE THE W**** ALONE SAM LMAO
I Agree Sam.
Celebrities (Especially Artists) Can’t Be Pin’d Up For Any Habit They Have Just Because An Obsessed Child Wanted To “Be Like Rihanna”.
Plus, Rihanna Shouldn’t Even Appeal To Such A Young Fan base With Her Musical Content & Antics.
Like She Said, She Doesnt Want To Be A Role Model
As for the Cancer foundation I personally think all foundations who wish to use a single celebrity instance of unharmful misconduct (Rihanna smoking in a video) while ignoring several real life examples ( Adele having to cancel remaining tour dates because of throat issues) are doing themselves and their message a disservice.
education is key. Ignorance is a disease. This statement for example: “Yes, there is little doubt that clips like ‘Love’ glamorize and romanticize smoking” shows an abundance of ignorance. I thought the Titanic film was glamorous and romantic, I didn’t charter a boat and hit an iceberg in an attempt to replicate it. Lazy parenting breeds ignorance. It doesn’t take an inhuman effort to make a child understand that seeing something doesn’t mean they have to copy it.
It’s a shame you can focus on the use of drugs/cigs, a reality for many, but not the lesson in the video: it’s negative and leads only to a downfall.
Rolls eyes.
AND SHES DUMB!
She is irresponsible, but people should copy what she does and they way she acts as she is not sensible, though she admits it and she doesn’t try to be.
So she is a bad role model, but she doesn’t want to be a good one so… you know.
@Those That Cannot Do Stan
100% agreed, they would never go after Adele coz they know they will get so much hate, but right now parents are getting at it at Rihanna. So you know. Think this could be a publicity stunt to raise awareness.
I.agree about its not rihanna job to raise these children BUT for someone like her for to say she wants to be a role model set an example for young women out there and turns around and does the thing she does it doesn’t seem.very sincere on her part. It’s like one minute she wants to be a role model the next she doesn’t.
Rihanna is the Goddess of pop music!!!!
first rihanna said herself that she is no role model, but admits that she knows there are people who look up to her.
i always hate how people try blaming videos and music for decisions that other people make. everybody who smokes makes that decision, the same with drinking. there are people who like it and people who don’t, videos are not going to make anybody like a cigarette or is it really going to make anybody smoke. it is their own decision to do it, people try to find what ever excuses they can for something that a parent should actually be responsible for.
As much as it’s not a celebrity’s job to raise people’s children, when you choose to be out there in the public eye and your music is trageted towards teens(yes when she first came out they were her traget group); in one form or another what you do, what you say and how you portray yourself does have an effect on the next generation.
No matter how she wants to deny it, I think she should atleast recognise unfortunately that she does have an effect on these children.
Haters gonna hate, a Celebrity can apparently do no right in this media age. Rihanna is selling millions, so people wanna bank on the name. She must be doing something right.
Rihanna keep your head babe 🙂
Haters gone talk that talk
targeted*
She was NEVER accused of unlawfully plagiarized Cee Loo except by TGJ in desperate attempts to deflect from Beyonce’s & Kelly’s controversies.
also i would like to ask everybody how many of you were even focused on the smoking that rihanna did in the video?
Kiss me to death 🙂
How is Rihanna glorifying smoking when she describes it as a drug and at the end of the video chose to leave that life behind?
Some people are really dumb.
^ lmao
Haters gonna hate! SAM F*** U.
STAY MAD
Anyways Rihanna is slaying
no other female can stop her 🙂
@TRUTHTELLER,
exactly, tgj is the only site that says rihanna plagiarized cee loo’s video, and the whole week this happened they did not once post how bey’s countdown copied exact dance moves and scenes from anne teresa, or kelly coping from livvi franc. those were exact copies, yet no post.
I want some good hot passion S** 🙂
WHO WANTS TO KISS ME 🙂
Rihanna is nobody`s role model :()
THIS!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 im smiling with pleasure…trashy chick hmpgh!
My lips are on fire for a kiss ppl !!!!!
@REJECT
Kiss me b****
she’s VERY irresponsible smh 😉
this b**** is irresponsible duh
@Kerry
after u suck my a** hole 😉
@ Kody3x
I not your no talking…when your fave nevermind….!
@RIHJECT
You be smiling as too why rihanna is slaying your fav
lol @Kerry….and might my fave be dear? 🙂
I don’t think it was irresponsible in this clip because it showed that “love” is more or less hopeless being in a relationship doing those things , however artist such as herself should take precautions and consideration of their audience when making videos and song concepts because of the fact that who they are and what they do influence many people not all but many people.
@KODY3X
I see you broke are deal, ok i gotcha
@RIHJECT
Beyonce, or chris brown 🙂
@kerry johnson s*** i forgot have not seen you up here in a while besides people like @jamir 21 is on every chris brown post so
O Cancer society STFu go after the companies that make them
@ Kody3x
*Chucky laugh* hahahahahahahahhahahahaahaa
I need a f***** kiss to help me think better 🙂
CH………….
I’m a Rihanna Fan You don’t see me thinking about wanting to smoke.. some people reach tooo much and too far. If these people think that artist can be a bad influence on children why don’t they TEACH the children what is right and what is wrong and teach them music video’s are not real. SMH.
of course King Bey 😉
Dam if she do and dam if she don’t, RIHANNA DOES not set the rules and regulations< If they want to go after something go after the FOOD ADMINSTRATION
DRUG COMPANIES, IS our EGGS, WATER, AND FOOD 1000000000000000% SAFE?
Kiss my bionic lips
Speaking about Rihanna & Smoking i Swear these DIFFERENT GROUPS ACT Like RIHANNA IS the person who bit the dang APPLE Heeeeeeeey FOLKS I know you want to pen everything on Rihanna BUT it was not RIHANNA it was “EVE”.
Let your body go
put you in the mood
let your soothe
let it groove
Feel the funk now!!!!
🙂
People with a working brain know that its a video just like they make movies why not go after the movie Producer?????No because they know not to Pukkkkk with Society but go after a single Hot POP STAR.
S*** my gran & grampa has worked all there lives in the medical field and now that they or RETIRED they can hardly make ends meet, because of the PUKKKKKIN ECONOMY, Do something to help my grand parents live a better life they deserve it they have worked hard all of their lives.
Ps Heyyyyyyy CANCER SOCIETY While you or nit picking rihanna because shes the BAADDEST ON THE PLANET WHY NOT FIX THINGS IN WASHINGTON DC.
We have million of people without a place to work, loosing their homes jobs or going over seas can the Cancer Society Pleassssssss do something to try & help.
BECAUSE by the way things or going every one is going to STARVE TO DEATH Before the SMOKE THEMSELVES TO DEATH, PLEASE HELPPPPPPP!
rihanna is not a role model for anybody !
and why u ppl will think of a celeb as a role model , do u know them personally ?!
this is a Rih-EACHING post !!! and a FLOP one at that as well !!
LOL, YEAH THE SMOKING WAS THE REAL PROBLEM IN THAT VIDEO…LOL! O__0
Not a fan but this & the feminist group whining about this video “placing women in a submissive light” NEED TO S*** THE F*CK DOWN! LAWD knows I am not a fan of this chick but some of this criticism is coming out of left field!
opps ….*SIT*…lol, y’all know what I mean 🙂
Leave Rihanna alone. It is not her responsibility to raise our kids. Most likely, the children parents smoke and who is really influencing them.
@KERRY,,,I LOVE YOU….
Those were “electric” cigarettes, not the real thang! Jeez,,,
Heeeeeey people these big companies or trying to shut the United State all the way down, we need to start really watching and paying attention to what is going on with the 99ers. People or losing their Livelivhood , people and its real. So if they or trying to say that RIH Smoking in a Music Video can change/influence a whole Generartion. If that be the case than who is to blame for all of those other many Different Cancers that People or striken with.
I have a nephew who lived in Japan this pass summer Graduated for med school
and worked IN Japan this pass summer and now he is employed with a big company in california and his job is he, REPAIRS THE MACHINES THAT IS USED FOR CANCER SCREENING, REAL TALK….
It’s not a celebrities fault if children want to copy them. The parents have to teach children what is wrong and right……anyway it’s a music video….it’s not real-life.
OMGGGGGGGGGG NEW SONG MADONNA!!!! http://3xtras.net/2011/11/omg-3scucha-un-fragmento-de-la-nueva-cancion-de-madonna/ EPIC!!!
For a young woman who has never had a child Rihanna IS REALLY PROVING TO BIGGER THAN BIG. I sure do hope that them eggs my grans or love eating so much or truely safe.? And what about the TOBACCO COMPANIES?????Leave rihanna the hell along and let the super star do her job, right now theres another movie being made, s**, drugs and nudity do something about it please.
Children or smarter than their parents give them credit for.
is all about money, more controversy more money you get, learn from Madonna. Go Rihanna.
Just because the mofos have money, people automatically wanna throw them into the category of being a damn role model. Like chill the hell out. Her music has never been something for kids to listen to so Idk why they even try to label her as such. Like the girl is young. let her do her thing.
The world’s number one female artist MADONNA is not a good Role Model for anybody in real life, she’s not a good example except for other Musicians, why Rihanna has to be a role model in our personal life, my mom is a role model to me not celebrities.
Wow. I am amazed. There’s drugs, bad relationships and more drug use and yet they’re complaining about the smoking?
Dimwits.
This is ridiculous. Really……they should be focused on more important things. There’s plenty of rappers who brag about smoking blunts but they don’t call them out individually. Adele smokes. People smoke all the time. And it’s a parents’ responsibility to raise your kids. ..not a celebrity/singer.
RIHANNA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RAISING EVERYBODY’S KIDS. The b**** can do whateverthefuck she wants. How about that?
And Rihanna accused of plagiarising a few similar angles in a video? Um how about BeYAWNCe plagiarising throughout her entire f****** career. LEGGO
I bet the cancer society want be saying anything about them big
ass nasety ass CIGARS many people love and enjoy smoking
“God Father Movie” why didn’t they go after the smoker in that flick???
Many smoke so GET OVER IT!
Smoking is a person choice.
As a non-smoker who knows many smokers, i dont follow people, i do my own thing.
People should learn that concept!