JLS “in talks” for Rihanna collaboration

JLS are apparently "in talks" to record a collaboration with Rihanna.

Boyband star Ortisé Williams revealed to reporters that himself and the rest of the group - who were the runners up on The X Factor in 2008 - are hoping to work with the star.

Ortisé said: "We are in talks to collaborate with Rihanna. Let's see what happens there. We hope so. I tried to chat her up."It was going well and then there were a few other guys on the prowl and I said, 'You know what, I'll step out because there's [sic] others.' I can't say who."

He added: "But she's popular, very popular when she comes to England."

Rihanna at Sultry Best in King Bed

Rihanna returns to ballad form with her new single “California King Bed,” off her Loud album. The 23-year-old singer said in a Twitter post she didn’t want to be “2 swiney” after her S&M album.

Directed by Anthony Mandler, the video features Rihanna in a surreal scenes alternating among a bedroom with a monster bed, a grassy field and clouds and sunsets.

The thrust of the song is about the growing distance between two lovers, who once shared their bed together, but have slowly drifted apart.

Rihanna asked her fans in February on Twitter to choose her next single from the album.

“I’m shootin a new vid in a cpl wks, I just need u to tell me, which song should I shoot? What is my next single?” she tweeted.“Its hard to go from s+m to SKIN! Don’t want to be 2 swiney,” she added.

The result was California King Bed.

Rihanna will open NBC’s “The Today Show” summer concert series on May 27. Ex-boyfriend Chris Brown is also slated to perform on July 15.

International superstar Rihanna at CUC June 19

Rihanna sparked a fan frenzy with her soldout European tour and has announced she'll be bringing her highly anticipated LOUD tour to North America this summer. Credit Union Centre will host this fabulous show, presented by MuchMusic on June 19. Produced by Live Nation, Rihanna's extraordinary show, with special guests J. Cole and Cee Lo Green, will feature all new production, costumes and stage design creating a visual and audio event with the once in a lifetime excitement from one of the brightest stars in music today.

"We're creating an incredible ride with this tour. I'm excited to get out on the road and share my new music from this album," said Rihanna. "We are going to have an amazing time and I know my fans are ready to get LOUD!"Rihanna's third single "S&M" follows the number one hits, "Only Girl" and "What's My Name" both reaching the top of the singles charts. LOUD is Rihanna's fifth album released since 2005 and has reached number one in six countries. Rihanna has sold a collective 22 million albums and 36 million digital singles since her debut in 2005.

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Rihanna's Rolling Stone Stylist Reveals the Concept Behind the Cover

Stylist B. Akerlund had never worked with Rihanna before she got the assignment to choose her outfits for the current issue of Rolling Stone – but she immediately had some ideas. "Her people told me the direction that we were going was if Kid Rock and Rihanna had a baby," she tells Rolling Stone. "So I tried to think of things she hadn't done. And everyone kept on saying super sexy, super sexy, and I'm like, okay, I'll give you sexy."

The result was a cover shot of Rihanna wearing a pair of barely-there, torn metallic shorts with a Levi's logo on the back, a midriff-baring white tank top and a red bandanna tied around her wrist. But it was the shorts that had everyone talking. Or as Popdust put it: "Rihanna is sporting a revolutionary booty-flaunting garment that’s part shorts, part apron and part nothing."Akerlund commissioned the shorts from designer Michael Schmidt, whom she frequently collaborates with. "I like everything that sparkles, so I was just trying to think of, like, what can we do that's not crystals, because we've done a lot of it, and then I was trying to come up with like, what is the hottest short on the planet, basically," says Akerlund, who has worked with Lady Gaga, Madonna, Fergie and Kate Moss. "And then we came up with this concept of photo digitizing on top of metal mesh."

The stylist and the singer didn't have a chance to meet before the photo shoot, so Akerlund knew she was taking a chance with the shorts' fit. "I was just looking at the pictures online of like, her bum," she says, laughing. "I was just trying to figure out how she liked her shorts, and how they would end and cut."

Rihanna: I adore hanky spanky

RIHANNA really is a Good Girl Gone Bad - she has confessed she likes to be "tied up and spanked".

The 24-year-old singer has opened up about her sexual preferences in the bedroom.

And she said: "I love feeling like I'm somebody's girl. I love to be tied up and spanked."

But Rihanna - whose rapper ex CHRIS BROWN assaulted her on the night of the Grammys in 2009 - added that she would "prefer to be spontaneous".

She said: "Using whips and chains is too planned. You have to stop and look for the whip. I prefer them to use their hands."

The star thinks her desires are linked to her hectic career. She explained: "I like to take the reins in my life, but be submissive in the bedroom.

"I can be a little lady and have a male who has responsibility. That's sexy.

"I work hard and take a lot of decisions every day, so I prefer to feel the intimacy of someone like the girl." The What's My Name singer, born and raised in Barbados, saw her father RONALD FENTY smoking crack when she was nine - and thinks her choices could be influenced by the behaviour she witnessed as a child.

She said: "I think I'm a bit masochistic, and I did not realise until recently.

"I think that's common in people who witnessed abuse in their childhood."

I Like To Be Spanked

Rihanna has revealed that she likes to be "submissive in the bedroom" in a candid interview with a US magazine. The Only Girl (In The World) singer, real name Robyn Rihanna Fenty, told Rolling Stone Magazine that she likes to be "spanked" during sex.

"I like to take charge, but I also love to be submissive," she says. "Being submissive in the bedroom is really fun. You get to be a little lady, to have somebody be macho and in charge of your s***. That's sexy to me… I like to be spanked." "Being tied up is fun.I like to keep it spontaneous," she adds. The 23-year-old R&B queen, who poses in spray-on shorts on the cover of the US music magazine, also revealed that she prefers old-fashioned 'discipline' to new-fangled sex toys. "Sometimes whips and chains can be overly planned — you gotta stop, get the whip from the drawer downstairs… I'd rather have him use his hands," she says.

But the S&M singer rebuffed rumours that she is dating Hollywood actor Colin Farrell and admitted that she hasn't had a date since splitting with pro baseball player Matt Kemp last December. Talking about Farrell, she says: "We don't even have each other's numbers. I wish! He's smoking."...

Rihanna's Tickets For Extra Date Go On Sale

Rihanna announced that she will be playing an incredible eight shows at London's 02 Arena and the tickets go on sale today (11th March) at 9am.

The 'S&M' singer revealed that she will be playing an extra date on 21st December just before Christmas and joked that she might stay in London for the holiday period.

RiRi's tour will begin in the U.K. in October right through to December, and has already been extended several times because of the demand.

Tickets for the show will be on sale from 9am.

Ellie Goulding's releasing her Rihanna cover!

Ellie Goulding is officially releasing her cover of Rihanna's Only Girl In The World TODAY.
She originally performed the cover in Radio 1's Live Lounge for that there Fearne Cotton.

She's releasing the cover version as a B-side to her new single Lights, and is availble to download from today.
This very day!

What do you think?

We're unsure. As usual.

Only Girl In The World is a great song, GREAT, but it needs to be sung with a bit of kaPOW, don't you think?

Ellie's voice is beautiful, but it's quite floaty and light, so we don't really know if it suits the song. Hat's off to her for having the man-goolies to cover it though, we just think we prefer the original.