Rihanna was the musical guest on last night’s Saturday Night Live, but her appearance in this Digital Short killed me.

Rihanna teamed up with Andy Samberg’s character Shy Ronnie to rob a bank and narrated the entire thing in a Randy Newman-esque fashion. Of course Shy Ronnie is about as good at sticking up a bank as you think he would be (he sucks, yo) and he sabotages the entire thing, but that doesn’t mean Rihanna aka Clyde was going to leave empty-handed.

Now can Rihanna host her own episode, plz?

Rihanna, all red-haired and tattooed and much different after being the object of abuse by former boyfriend Chris Brown, has settled on down with her athlete boyfriend, Matt Kemp, and dishes on all sorts of stuff for the December issue of Marie Claire magazine, and claims that she’s so much happier now than she’s been in the past.

On rationalizing the whole abuse thing with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown:

“God has a crazy way of working, and sometimes when stuff happens you feel like, ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ Why was it backfiring on me? I was very lost. I have to say I felt really confused. I hate talking about it but it was really crazy because I felt so out of touch with myself and when that happens.’”

On losing herself and healing after the Brown incident:

“It’s scary because nothing you say or do feels like it’s you … [Rihanna says through tears.] You just lose touch of everything that you love and everything that you would normally do; how you would dress or how you would say something.”

On her current happiness with her new life and her boyfriend, baller Matt Kemp:

“I feel like I smile for real this time. The smiles come from inside, and it exudes in everything I do. People feel my energy is different. When I smile they can tell that it’s pure bliss and not just a cover up.”

I’m glad that Rihanna, clearly a super-talented performer and strong woman through and through, can be such an example of a life starting over and reinventing itself, because hell … we all have to once in awhile, don’t we?

What’s really happening:  Rihanna took Katy Perry to a Cirque Du Soleil show in Las Vegas. This was just one of a handful of bachelorette activities the two got into last night:  they also hung out by a pool and had some drinks, went to a nightclub and had drinks, then went to a strip club and had drinks.  Sounds like a great night.

What could be happening:  Anything.  This picture, as well as the ones that follow, are so fantastical.  I don’t mean to be all Kindergarten Teacher on you all, but your imagination can take you anywhere.  You could write the next Avatar here, you really could (but keep in mind that if you do that, the film should be about an hour shorter and the plot shouldn’t be so redundant).

If you’re finding your inspiration limited, just check out the rest of the pictures below!

Kanye performed with some of his friends at a celebrity-packed private show last night, but the highlight of the evening wasn’t the performance of his new single “Mama’s Boyfriend” (although the song’s pretty freakin’ great.) No, the best thing about Kanye’s performance from last night his cover of Rihanna’s chorus “Run This Town”, which lead into a story about how when he saw Rihanna perform earlier in the evening.

In the video above, Kanye says he was so moved by watching someone who he considered to be his baby sister performing a flawless stage show with full production in Madison Square Garden that it actually made him a little weepy. And you know how hilarious it is when Kanye talks about his emotions. It’s like watching a robot that’s been trained to feel in a therapy session.

Rihanna’s latest tattoo reads “rebelle fleur,” which translates to “rebel flower,” just in case you couldn’t piece that together. Cute, right?  I could see how Rihanna could be considered a rebel flower. The problem is, however, that the wording isn’t exactly correct:

The music superstar’s newest ink reads “rebelle fleur,” but someone forgot to tell the ‘Rude Boy’ singer that in French, adjectives typically follow the nouns they modify. To translate as “rebel flower,” which we assume is what she intended, that tattoo should read “fleur rebelle.”

I never took French – instead I opted to take Spanish with the eccentric woman from Panama who did not have her issues under control and didn’t so much teach us Spanish as she did tell us about how the government killed her family – but I’m going to trust the Internet on this one.  I’m not going to hate on Rihanna though.  As far as questionable tattoos go, it could be a lot worse.

Just like it takes a certain kind of face to pull of a pixie cut, it also takes a certain kind of woman to pull off red hair. While Rihanna is clearly bold enough to rock red hair and lips at the same time, do you think this look is working for her?

To me, Rihanna’s constant style switch ups are reminiscent of a teenage girl’s willingness to experiment with her look and stand out. Personally, I find it endearing, but at a certain point you gotta ask why we never see the same Rihanna twice.

What do you think of this look? Is it working for RiRi or should she go back to her darker roots?