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And Finally
Rihanna not controversial for the sake of it, wants to play Whitney
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 4 April 2012
Rihanna has said she doesn’t go around trying to be controversial, it just sort of happens. You people just can’t hack her honesty, apparently.
Speaking to the Radio Times, she said: “I never do anything to get banned, never do it for controversy. It’s always just honest and at times I just go a little too far for some. When I make a music video, it’s a piece of art. It’s four minutes to make a visual, for people to understand the message in the song”.
The singer is currently promoting a longer piece of visual ‘art’, her debut movie ‘Battleship’. Asked what she brings to her role in the film, she said it was “my badass-ness and my buns”. Not sure if that qualifies her to play Whitney Houston in a biopic, but that’s what she’d like to do one day too.
Speaking to 4Music, she said: “My first song that I remember fallig in love with was a Whitney Houston song, ‘I Will Always Love You’. It was really inspiring, and it made me develop a passion for music, so really she’s partly responsible for me being here in this industry. [Playing her in a film] would be something that I would have to give my entire life to do, because I would really want to pull it off. That’s a huge, huge role and whoever does it has to do a good job”.
