Rihanna has taken to Instagram to respond to a The Daily Mail
editorial that called her "poisonous."
In the piece published on Monday, writer Liz Jones criticizes
just about every aspect of Rihanna — her stage show, her personal life
(specifically her relationship with Chris Brown), her fashion choices and her
use of social media. The writer made references to a particular Instagram photo
of Rihanna smoking two joints while traveling around Europe on her Diamonds
tour.
"Of course, these little girls don't [realize] there is
anything wrong with what they are doing — they just want to copy the
chart-topping star... But if only she could be a better role model for young
women," Jones writes. "I don't care if she has the voice of an angel
and is self-made, feisty and confident."
She continues, "Is it fair that we berate female stars for
being bad, when we don't admonish men in the same way? Yes, it is fair. Because
young women are far more impressionable than young men. They want to be
Rihanna, have her lifestyle, her clothes, her men, her habits... This poisonous
pop princess should come with a government health warning."
Rihanna isn't taking Jones' comments lightly. Early Tuesday
morning (June 25), she took to Instagram and posted a lengthy response to
Jones' article, including an unflattering photograph of the writer.
"LOL!!!! My money got a bad habit of pissing people off!! If
you sincerely wanna help little girls more than their own parents do, here's a
toxic tip: don't be amateur with your articles, you sound bitter! What's all
this about hair and nails and costumes and tattoos?? ....That s--- ain't
clever!!! That s--- ain't journalism! That's a sad sloppy menopausal
mess!!!" she wrote to her nearly 8 million followers.
The singer continued, "Nobody over here acts like they're
perfect! I don't pretend that I'm like you, i just live... My life!!" she
continued. "And I don't know why y'all still act so surprised by any of
it!! 'Role Model' is not a position or title that I have ever campaigned for,
so chill wit dat! I got my own f---ed up shit to work on, I'll never portray
that as perfect, but for right now it's ME!! Call it what ya want!! Toxic was
cute, Poisonous Pop Princess had a nice ring to it, just a lil wordy!"
She concluded the statement with, "And P.S. my first
American Vogue cover was in 2011...APRIL!!! #ElizabethAnnJones" (Jones
wrote Rihanna made her debut on a November issue, though she did appear on
British Vogue that month, marking her second cover for the publication.)
Jones has yet to respond to Rihanna's Instagram, but the singer
had a few more tweets, in which she quoted Bob Marley's 1980 Uprising track,
"Could You Be Loved." Rihanna is a longtime fan of the Jamaican
singer/songwriter, even performing during a tribute to Marley at the Grammy
Awards back in February.
She tweeted, "Don't let them fool ya! Or even try to school
ya! We've got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you're thinking is not
right!! Don't let them change ya, or even rearrange ya!! We've got a life to
live! They say only the fittest of the fittest shall survive! Stay alive!"
This is not the first time that Rihanna has used social media to
take on her critics and the media. In December 2011, the singer tweeted a
response to a racial slur used by Dutch fashion magazine Jackie. While the
magazine's editor-in-chief, Eva Hoeke, eventually apologized for the
insensitive remark, she later resigned from her position in the wake of the
controversy.
MTV News has reached out to the Daily Mail for comment but had
not heard back by press time.
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