Their on-again/off-again relationship is currently on, although "Nobody's Business," the defiant but confused duet with Brown from her album Unapologetic, was notably absent from the set. That's as true of her life as of her art, especially when it comes to her troubling relationship with the performer Chris Brown, who pled guilty to assaulting her in 2009. Moving up the comparatively spartan section built around the reggae of Rihanna's native Barbados and saving the jet-fueled pop of "Jump" might have given her a slight breather, but with a tour currently scheduled to run through October, some early-stage tweaking is par for the course.ĭepending on whom you ask, Rihanna is either an endlessly versatile performer or a vacant vessel, a chameleon or a cipher. The set list for Friday's show duplicated the one from the tour opener in Buffalo, although with the second and third sections transposed. Such deviations from the script were rare. The stage, frequently reconfigured to keep pace with her half-dozen costumes changes, was littered with clusters of water bottles, and near the end of her hour-and-45-minute set, she asked for more over a live microphone mid-song - a rarity in the highly managed world of arena pop productions.
RIHANNA DIAMONDS BACKING VOCALS CRACK
Rihanna's voice wasn't 100 percent on Thursday, although as she was often augmented by prerecorded double- and triple-tracked vocals, as well as a pair of backing singers, the crack in her throat was more evident when she spoke between songs. But it was throat trouble that made Thursday's show at the Wells Fargo Center the second of her Diamonds World Tour rather than its fourth, after she canceled gigs in Boston and Baltimore. Given all of Robyn Rihanna Fenty's well-documented troubles, laryngitis would seem to rank fairly low.
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