Spice Girl Mel C Calls On Umbrella Star Rihanna To Reign In Her Raunchy, Sexy Image And Consider Young Fanbase

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First Posted: 10/08/11 14:49 Updated: 10/10/11 11:12

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Mel C has called on Rihanna to think about the impact her sexy image could be having on her young fans, according to reports.

Former Spice girl Mel, 37, admitted she was a fan of the Good Girl Gone Bad singer, but said the star should take her impressionable followers into account.

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Do you think Rihanna is too raunchy for her young fanbase?

Yes - they're only young teenagers, and she's going way beyond the line with her outfits and raunchy performances.

No - it's all entertainment, and parents should be more responsible about letting their children watch different things.

"We always sat down as a group, be it in photoshoots, videos, interviews, and if somebody felt something was inappropriate for our young fans, we did something about it," the mother-of-one was quoted as saying in the Daily Mirror.

"I think that's something young people in the music industry today, like Rihanna, should do now."

Mel - who is mum to daughter Scarlet, with her property developer partner Thomas Starr - added: "Rihanna has responsibility and although culture's always changing, it's changed too much. It needs to be dealt with."

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PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Mel C has called on Rihanna to think about the impact her sexy image could be having on her young fans, according to reports. Former Spice girl Mel, 37, admitted she was a fan ...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Mel C has called on Rihanna to think about the impact her sexy image could be having on her young fans, according to reports. Former Spice girl Mel, 37, admitted she was a fan ...
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15:51 on 16/08/2011
No way is Rihanna too sexy for her fans. Mel C is thinking in terms of when she was big in the Spice Girls, that was right for that moment in time but this is a totaly different fashion trend and I love it. I think Rihanna is the biz but I'm not biased.
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vernsmaria
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19:51 on 15/08/2011
Get the money while you can and don't listen to have beens.
15:47 on 13/08/2011
And what exactly was the selling point of the Spice Girls when they were around? It sure wasnt their music.
lovelybunchofcoconuts
It's nice, to be nice, to the nice
08:06 on 12/08/2011
Rein in. As in reins. Of a horse. Not the reign of Louis XV. See?
06:09 on 12/08/2011
Aren't they all pretty much the same these days?

What is the difference between Rihanna, Britney and Miley half naked ?
20:27 on 11/08/2011
how do u spelllllllll p i gggggggg????????????
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17:10 on 11/08/2011
That's exactly why rihanna does it - she's playing to a young base with her sleaze and she doesn't give a damn what kind of image she's saying is just fine...her goal is the $$$$$$.
16:35 on 11/08/2011
I have to wonder why Mel C chose Rhianna and not Brittany Spears or Christina Aguillera or Miley and why there are so many posters who are using Rhianna as some sort of social pariah?
07:19 on 12/08/2011
That's an easy one. Rhianna is big news, the big star. She's far out-selling and out-performing Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Neither of those exactly "gone", but neither are they anymore the thing of the moment.
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Cassandra L Chapa
15:54 on 11/08/2011
All I know is that the music industry (and society) in general has lowered it's standards significantly. It's easy for some to say "If you don't like it, don't listen to it", and that is the case with some things. But, when you're constantly bombarded with things that the media just keeps shoving in your face it's hard to avoid. S&M was (and still sort of is) all over the radio, to the point where, yes, I turned it off. But what am I supposed to do when I walk into a store with my 3 year old daughter and it's playing in the store's speaker system? Walk out for a few minutes? I shouldn't HAVE to. "Whips and chains exite me" is not something I want my daughter repeating.
12:14 on 11/08/2011
I can just see Rihanna donning a pair of Addidas trackies and a high pony ...
09:21 on 11/08/2011
she needs to turn the sluuuuut knob to 11 or 12
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06:18 on 11/08/2011
Yawn
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Edbeason
05:38 on 11/08/2011
Hey Mel B ought to take her message back home perhaps and tell those fans in Britain what's appropriate as it relates to burning down the place. London's burning down and she displaying her jealousy of Rihanna? Perhaps she should go home and make herself useful. If Mel B ever even approached this girl's talent maybe she could make a comment, but this has never been the case. She should mind her own business and let her daughter watch and listen to someone else if she disapproves. She and all those Spice chicks are the luckiest women own earth having made the money they did with little talent. At least the rest of them know better than to try and comment on someone else's act.
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madjanssen
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11:06 on 11/08/2011
This article is about Mel C - Melanie Chisolm aka Sporty Spice. You're confusing her with the other Melanie - Mel B is Melanie Brown aka Scary Spice (she's now married to Harry Belafonte's son). I think she has a valid point because she was part of all that 'power girls' stuff back in the 90s and as tacky as it was, they did set in a new era of girls in music and all the while, never really stripping down as much as Rihanna does.
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Edbeason
18:39 on 11/08/2011
Thanks for pointing that out. My comment would apply to any of them. I stand by it. It entertainment. She's no more "raunchy" than Madonna, Grace Jones, Betty Davis, Christina Aguilera, just to name a few. There are many others now, and througout history. Rihanna is a West Indian island girl from the tropics and she expresses herself in the way she feels. People like Mel C should tend to their own business and ignore her if they don't approve. Rihanna's not going to listen to that anyway, and will probably be more blatant just to mess with her. While she's not the most talented singer and performer I've ever seen, she's more talented than Mel C and every member of that Spice group could ever hope to be. My point bottom line is Rihanna is an adult so people just ought to get a life because they'll have zero effect on hers.
23:48 on 12/08/2011
Mel B's husband is NOT related to Harry Belafonte!! He has only one son named David!! Please check your facts before you write!!! Her husband legally changed his name to Belafonte!! They are NOT AND WILL NEVER BE RELATED!!!
12:15 on 11/08/2011
I don't think it's got anything to do with the riots in London ...
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Edbeason
05:28 on 11/08/2011
Some people here just can't stop criticizing this chick. Get a life! One in particular is obsessed with trying to tell us what Rihanna, a very successful young entertainer no matter what you think of her otherwise, should be doing with her life, her career, her act. Funny how some peple who don't know this woman at all, think they can psycho-analyze her, and opine that there's something wrong with her. They know about as much as anyone else with a negative opinion here. Nothing! If you don't like what she does and how she lives, why don't you just not listen, or watch, and ignore her? Because you don't have a life. Otherwise you wouldn't take the time to constantly rag on her for no sane reason.
21:01 on 13/08/2011
Duh? Because she's a lousy role model for kids today. Bad clothing, bad men, bad attitude. Just what we need to see more of.
11:06 on 14/08/2011
I'd pay good money to watch you tell Rihanna to her face that she's a bad person for getting assaulted by Chris Brown. The much deserved verbal flaying she'd lay on you would be most amusing.
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Edbeason
21:12 on 15/08/2011
It's a free country. You have options. One of those options is to make a decision based on your own statement, which is maybe, don't see her. Nobody's forcing you. Kids have parents who perhaps need to parent if they don't want their kids to see her. Let me suggest one more. You probably won't see much of her if you.......get a life.
04:08 on 11/08/2011
Rihanna is a young lady from the islands who was thrown into a world she had no context for. She appears lost and the difference between her early interviews and the current ones seem to reflect someone searcing for a center. I am much older than she is and remember my alarm when they said Jay Z was involved with her career. She has become as raunchy as I would expect from anyone under his wings. Look at Beyonce, I watched her dancing go from fun to a disgrace, again with Jay Z involved. At 19 , I know America says she is an adult, but 19 is an impressionable age. Her family should have been around her. Money seems to blind people. I hope she gets a hold of her self before she spirals out of control emotionally. Too much of what she does seems to be a simple case of acting out by someone in need of positive sel esteem promoting attention.
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madjanssen
Neurotic mother of one displaced in Europe
11:07 on 11/08/2011
That's a very good analysis. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Euroview
16:15 on 11/08/2011
What planet are you on?? This is the nature of the industry, she's not a Sunday school teacher, and most importantly, nobody has dragged anyone into this career.

It is interesting that you criticize Jay Z and portray him as some sprt of puppet master preying on sweet innocent girls ...... grow up! These women are professional women who have reaches the peak of their chosen careers and are very well rewarded.

Please don't confuse the Pop Music industry with Opera or Classical music.