Rihanna 777 Tour: Day 6 London

0:00And then what's up? You've been on this crazy 777 gold tour. If anyone's seen the pictures from us, she's been on a trombone chat all around 70 different cities in seven days. Look, well on that. Thank you. How's the tour been going? The tour has been so special. This is like a completely different demeanor of performance that we've ever done. And then we've heard that. And it's tinier venues. It was really intimate. We really get to see the first spaces in Taiwan. That's really special for me. I love it. I'm not such a good time. Alright, so I'm in my hotel room here in London, England. And I don't know if you've heard the reports or not, but if you've read anything about the Rihanna tour in the past couple of days,

0:47you know that, well, Mutiny has kind of started. The reporters and journalists are kind of feeling the burn of no sleep for a week, feeling the burn of not getting any access to someone who's, you know, 50 feet away from us. She came back on the first day. I'm talking about Rihanna, of course. And I like her. I want to like her. I want to love her. I want to be friends with her. I want to chat with her. I want to try and talk about the record. I want to talk about songwriting with these people and choosing the songs that make her record on apologetic. I mean, she dropped the new record today and we know nothing about it. I thought the point of being on this plane was to learn about the record and tell you about the record. I was excited to talk about the album. And it turns out that maybe she doesn't want to talk about it. Now maybe she's worried people will ask her questions about Chris Brown and she doesn't want to talk about that.

1:34And I understand that. I wouldn't even ask a question about that. I don't care who she's dating. No one should care who she's dating. She's a musician. We care about the music. We care about the songs. We want to know why did you choose this song? Why are these emotions in this song? Why are you choosing that beat? Why did you go to that producer for this song? That kind of thing. We would all love to talk to her about the record. And I don't know. Maybe she doesn't want to talk about it. I'm still going to give her the benefit of doubt and say she's a good person because I don't know her. I would have liked to have gotten to know her this trip. I kind of thought that's what was going to happen. I also kind of thought she was going to fall for me and we'd live happily after after. But, well, you know, wishful thinking I suppose. So you might have seen the footage and you may have seen the Australian streaker on the plane. Yesterday we started in Paris. We ended up in Berlin and then ended up in London.

2:20So three countries basically in the span of 24 hours, which for anybody is too much, especially when we're herded like sheep. And cattle onto buses and planes and whatnot and sitting in baggage areas waiting forever for everything. Nothing is going on time because she is late for everything. I'm trying to get you something. I'm trying to show you something cool. I'm trying to get Rihanna for you. I want to ask her questions. I want to get to know her better. I want you to get to know her better. I want us all to get to know unapologetic the record that we're all here to promote. I thought this was a promotional tour for the record. Now, the record label people have been amazing. Matt, Michael, Katrina, these people have done wonders for something that is such a cluster. You know, I'm not going to say that, but they've done such a good job and they're trying their damnedest to help us all.

3:06But we're all just, we're all in the same boat. Rihanna doesn't want to talk to anybody. She doesn't want to do interviews. She doesn't want to do a press conference. She doesn't really want to come to the back of the plane and hang out or talk to anybody, which I thought was the point of having all of us on the plane because I don't really know why we're there to be completely honest with you. But the record is out today unapologetic from what she's played so far. These songs are banging, you know, diamonds, obviously. You love that tune. I love that tune. Stay is a beautiful song. Fresh off the runway. She's been playing a lot, which is this banging club tune that's going to be massive. I thought we'd get a chance on this tour. I thought we'd get at least one press conference where I could get one question. Even if I didn't get a question in it, I thought there'd be at least a press conference that I could film and show you. And then we'd all be happy that, hey, we got to hear her talk about the record

3:51because that's why we're on tour. But it's been venue. It's been bus. It's been plane. It's been no sleep. I've slept maybe, maybe 10 hours since we left. I know I just washed my face. So maybe I look a little fresh, but I am. This is what it should be like. You know, that's how I feel right now. And we were in three cities yesterday, London today. No time to show you London, unfortunately. But we did just go see Rihanna Play diamonds and open some Christmas lighting ceremony at a mall here, which supposedly they paid her like $5 million for. But you didn't hear that from me. That's just what I've heard. So that's where we're at. We're in London. It's day six of the 777 World Tour. And we haven't seen a re-race since day one. Well, no, that's not true. We saw her get on the plane last night. I went to an after party the other night like I was talking about with Diddy and Acorn and Pharrell and Omarion.

4:40And Craig David was there. And we were, I don't know, two feet from Rihanna and nothing. Tried to take a picture. Screwed you got to push our phones down. Tried to say hi. Security pushed us out of the way. So I don't expect her to be accessible, but I expect to be on a plane and at least get a word in her too. Or at least one question. We don't even need to ask questions. She could just come out and tell us about the record or tell us about the tour. Tell us about what this six days have been like for her. We're all exhausted. I'm sure she's even more exhausted. We'd love to just hear about it. Know what's going on in her head. I mean, I've showed you some band members. I've showed you the opening act. That's the thing about this tour. The music has sounded great. The band is phenomenal. Everything about the actual shows is great. It's everything else. New York should be really cool because they've got two guys called Evan and Carl who wrote a lot of her hit songs at first.

5:30They were in fact the ones that discovered her and brought her to New York. They brought her to Jay-Z. So we'll talk to them. Hopefully tomorrow things go on time because things have not been going on time as I'm sure you're reading all over the place. There's a lot of great posts. If you search the stuff, you'll find it. It's really interesting to see what's happened because everyone is past their break point. Everyone is sleek, deprived. Everyone is a little cranky at this point. Even the fans on the plane. It's been a really, really interesting experience. Really interesting experience. I guess we'll see you in New York.