"Inappropriate" Rihanna video shoot shut down by Irish farmer
By James Brady RyanSeptember 27th, 2011, 3:15 pmComments (12)
An Irish alderman and farmer who leased out the field on his property to the producers of Rihanna's next video shut down filming when he decided that Rihanna was just getting a little bit too risqué. Alan Graham, the man in question, said that there was "no formal agreement" between him and Rihanna's people and that producers did, in fact, agree to stop when he made his objections known. Luckily, it seems like everyone was pretty calm and respectful about the situation. And hey, he even got to talk to Rihanna herself! Not too shabby... unless you don't know who she is:
"I had my conversation with Rihanna and I hope she understands where I'm coming from. We shook hands," he said...
"I didn't know who was coming. If the name 'Rihanna' had been mentioned, well, no disrespect but it wouldn't have meant anything," he explained.
So for him, it was really more like getting to talk to that young hussy who'd been gyrating in his yard, but I bet he still won't forget it. Graham never exactly says what, exactly, was the thing that made him speak up (the crew had already been filming for a while), but it seems to have something to do with her bikini top (seen above) and maybe her choreography getting more sexual?
"From my point of view, it was my land, I have an ethos and I felt it was inappropriate.
"I wish no ill will against Rihanna and her friends. Perhaps they could acquaint themselves with a greater God," he said.
I have known many old Irish people in my life, most of them related to me, and let me just say: that is such an old Irish person thing to say. It's nice, it's polite, it's reasonable enough... aaaand there comes the hint of judgment!
Commentarium (12 Comments)
Small correction - this was in Northern Ireland
hahahahahaha. awesome.
Gotta love that Irish Catholic guilt!
@dl - no chance on the Catholic guilt there! If you read the BBC article for example
(here- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15072380),
you'll see this guy's a member of a political party called the DUP - short for the Democratic Unionist Party. The nearest metaphor for Northern Irish politics I can think of would be a labyrinth crossed with a minefield being navegated by David Brent, so trust me when I say that Unionist = people who consider themselves British (not Irish, no no no) and are generally Protestant. So all the news articles calling him "Irish" are probably going down like a lead balloon and he certainly wouldn't thank you for calling him Catholic either. It maybe seems like splitting hairs here, but thousands of people have died for the right to call themselves British or Irish.
That said I do find it hilarious /typical that literally millions of men would beg Rihanna to keep stripping in their back yard, and it takes a Northern Irish man to say "alright love, that's enough of the skin, put it away now, there could be kids about and you'll catch your death of cold"
I stand corrected. That comment just seemed decidedly more of an Irish Catholic thing to say than to have come from a British Protestant. But, I'll take your word for it.
The Farmer was OK with the whole thing up to the point when she started running through his field topless. (See photo here: https://goo.gl/HP8ue) But the bigger question is why did Rihanna have to go all the way to Northern Ireland to shoot a video middle of a field? Don't fields look about the same everywhere in the world? On the other hand, you have to like a farmer who uses the word "ethos."
Of course not, all fields are different and unique in their own way. ;)
Just kidding, all fields look the same.
She should have done it on a football field.
The US controls the drug trade in Afghanistan, why couldn't she have done it in a poppy field?
Correction, should have been a mine field!
Good for the farmer. I'm glad he stood on his morals and belief. Everyone does not have to succumb to what society feels that it should do. Rihanna feels that she can do what she likes. I'm glad someone said, "Not ok."
Take that slutty-nish back to the United States
Now you say something