Fifteen minutes with Ree-AHN-uh
In a quick date with the press at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Rihanna - 18 and already one of the world's most watched entertainers - laid out her plans for a European tour with the Pussycat Dolls.
Next album? Not started yet, but it'll be "fun and sassy". Influences? Reggae and R&B. Definition of success? Achieving your own goals and being happy with what you've done. Life, she said, "is not a destination but a journey". Future collaborators? The Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am, Sean Paul, Justin Timberlake and more Evan Rogers, who produced her latest album, "A Girl Like Me". What's in the luggage? Clothes, cosmetics and candles! What's on the iPod? Fergie, Timberlake and Beyonce. Where's home? The Caribbean island of Barbados. What's she watching? The National Geographic Channel and "The Devil Wears Prada". Malls? Not relaxing! Is everything we see in the media about her true? "You'll never know who I am unless you're hanging out with me. No matter what you read in the papers, you'll never know me that way."
Lisnaree Vichitsorasatra
The Nation
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