Rihanna: I’m playing a part

Rihanna has compared herself to a “piece of art”. The What’s My Name? hitmaker told Britain’s Vogue magazine that, with her sexed-up image, she’s just playing a part.

“That’s not me,” she said.
 
“That’s a part I play. You know, like it’s a piece of art … I just want to make music. See, people – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me and being a role model became more of my job than I wanted it to be. But no, I just want to make music. That’s it.
 
“I don’t ever want to be a theme because then it belongs to someone, and that’s not right. I want to cultivate something that’s part of my personal swagger – whatever my mojo tells me, that’s what I’m going to do…”
 
Meanwhile, it’s been claimed Rihanna “fancies the pants off” British boxer Dudley O’Shaughnessy.
 
The star — who previously dated singer Chris Brown and baseball star Matt Kemp — chose the hunk to take part in her new music video for single We Found Love and while shooting in Northern Ireland she has been particularly taken with him, even sitting on his lap during one break.
 
“Rihanna was making no secret that she fancied the pants off Dudley. They hit it off straight away. She had seen his modelling shots and other pictures when he was a boxer,” a source said.
 
“Rihanna took every opportunity to get close to him and at one point she was sitting in his lap during a break from filming. She’s very tactile anyway, but this was something else.”