Rihanna’s Indian Gig: Hope the critics learn to create their own ‘umbrellas’

TUNDE OYEDOYIN   

Tunde Oyedoyin is a London-based personal finance coach and founder of Money Intelligence Coaching Academy, a specialist academy of personal finance. He can be reached as follows: +447846089587 (WhatsApp only); E-mail: tu5oyed@gmail.com

Some things are just not worth your hassle. If only some social media critics know, they’ll probably devote their efforts elsewhere.

About two weeks ago, while catching up with the March 3rd edition of the Mail on Sunday newspaper, “Fans’ anger over Rihanna’s boring £5m wedding gig,”(p.30), caught my eye.

As it turned out, a clip of the ‘Umbrella’ lady’s private performance at the launch of the pre-wedding celebrations of the son of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, found its way online.

Rihanna was said to have banked a five million pound pay cheque for a night of serenading the couple, Anant Ambani, 28, and the 29-year old bride-to-be, Radhika Merchant and the 1200 wedding guests that included Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Ivanka Trump.

One of the critics quoted said: “If someone is paying you that sort of money you should at least put some effort into it.” Another accused the “Umbrella” icon of “doing the bare minimum,” despite performing 19 songs.

Here’s the thing. Mr Ambani couldn’t care about their comments and neither did Rihanna. In fact, before flying out of India a day after the performance, she said: “the show was the best,” and that, ”I want to come back.”

It was a good day at the office for her and hopefully, it is so too for the critics. One hopes they get their creative juices flowing and create something or a collection of nineteen works that people are willing to pay them for.

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