Rihanna Rips CBS A New One For Pulling Her Song From Thursday Night Football
Posted on Tue Sep 16th, 2014 10:54am PDT By X17 Staff
Rihanna is seeing red after CBS pulled her performance of "Run This Town" from Thursday Night Football, and she took to her Twitter to slam the network for their decision.
The 26-year-old singer tweeted to her 37 million followers:
Rihanna's set was supposed to air during the Baltimore Ravens' game against the Steelers, but seeing as former Ravens' player Ray Rice was kicked off the team after footage of him beating his wife surfaced online last week, CBS decided not to play the song. As you know, Rihanna was brutally assaulted by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009, and given the publicity surrounding that incident, CBS thought it best to remove RiRi from the equation.
And this just in -- after Rihanna's angry tweet, CBS released a statement saying they will not use Rihanna's performance at all. "Beginning this Thursday, we will be moving in a different direction with some elements of our Thursday Night Football open," they said. "We will be using our newly created Thursday Night Football theme music to open our game broadcast."
The 26-year-old singer tweeted to her 37 million followers:
- "CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? NO, F*ck you! Y'all are sad for penalizing me for this. The audacity..."
Rihanna's set was supposed to air during the Baltimore Ravens' game against the Steelers, but seeing as former Ravens' player Ray Rice was kicked off the team after footage of him beating his wife surfaced online last week, CBS decided not to play the song. As you know, Rihanna was brutally assaulted by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009, and given the publicity surrounding that incident, CBS thought it best to remove RiRi from the equation.
And this just in -- after Rihanna's angry tweet, CBS released a statement saying they will not use Rihanna's performance at all. "Beginning this Thursday, we will be moving in a different direction with some elements of our Thursday Night Football open," they said. "We will be using our newly created Thursday Night Football theme music to open our game broadcast."