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# Can't Stop The Fug
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/cant-stop-the-fug-11-2012/
- Published: 2012-11-21T18:00:13.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-26T22:05:33.000Z
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:31

One of my favorite things this week -- in an OPRAH'S FAVORITE THINGS!!! sense, even -- [has been reading Julieanne Smolinski's dispatches from the Rihanna 777 debacle. ](https://popdust.com/2012/11/20/air-rihanna-777-tour-touches-down-in-new-york/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)I don't know if you've been keeping up with this, but it seems like (at best) not a great idea to really irritate the journalists you've invited on a press tour with you. It also, however, sounds like one of those debacles that makes said journalists really irritable but also a little bit gleeful about how snarky they're going to get to be when they finally get to file. See: every Heatherette show Heather and I ever attended, and t[he Richie Rich show two years ago where we almost died but then lived to sit through seven hours of naked interpretative dance](https://nymag.com/thecut/2011/02/the%5Ffug%5Fgirls%5Fj-woww%5Fjohnny%5Fwe.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) (that piece begins, "The experience of attending Richie Rich's epic clusterfuck of a show on Thursday night may have destroyed us. Arrival to departure, it was a three-hour odyssey — an epic poem full of rage, drag queens, nudity, figure skaters, and, inexplicably, the attendance of a 4-year old child," and it may be one of my favorite things we have ever written). So now every time I look at Rihanna, I think about how several of my comrades will never be able to hear her name without shuddering:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2012/11/156773076.jpg "Rihanna "Unapologetic" Record Release Fan Meet And Greet")

At least when talking about this look: It's like someone from the cast of *Newsies* as costumed by Hefty.