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| Rihanna is furious at CBS for pulling ‘Thursday Night Football’ intro so CBS pulls song (updated) | Rihanna is furious at CBS for pulling ‘Thursday Night Football’ intro so CBS pulls song (updated) |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| Updated at 11:12 a.m. EDT with CBS pulling song | Updated at 11:12 a.m. EDT with CBS pulling song |
| Rihanna is furious — furious — that CBS now wants to use the theme song she performed for its new “Thursday Night Football” telecast this week after pulling it last week. | Rihanna is furious — furious — that CBS now wants to use the theme song she performed for its new “Thursday Night Football” telecast this week after pulling it last week. |
| CBS made the decision last week because her involvement in a high-profile case of domestic violence involving her then-boyfriend, Chris Brown, in 2009 was a little too much for it to stomach on a week in which the ugly Ray Rice video was posted and engulfed the NFL in controversy. Now, with a little distance from the Rice case, CBS wanted to use “Run This Town” for the game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons. | CBS made the decision last week because her involvement in a high-profile case of domestic violence involving her then-boyfriend, Chris Brown, in 2009 was a little too much for it to stomach on a week in which the ugly Ray Rice video was posted and engulfed the NFL in controversy. Now, with a little distance from the Rice case, CBS wanted to use “Run This Town” for the game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons. |
| “CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday?” Rihanna tweeted Tuesday morning. “NO, [expletive] you! Y’all are sad for penalizing me for this.” | “CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday?” Rihanna tweeted Tuesday morning. “NO, [expletive] you! Y’all are sad for penalizing me for this.” |
| The audacity… — Rihanna (@rihanna) September 16, 2014 | The audacity… — Rihanna (@rihanna) September 16, 2014 |
| The audacity… | The audacity… |
| — Rihanna (@rihanna) September 16, 2014 | — Rihanna (@rihanna) September 16, 2014 |
| CBS heard her loud and clear because, by mid-morning, the network had decided to “replace the song with theme music created internally,” according to Bill Carter of the New York Times. | CBS heard her loud and clear because, by mid-morning, the network had decided to “replace the song with theme music created internally,” according to Bill Carter of the New York Times. |
| “Beginning this Thursday, we will be moving in a different direction with some elements of our Thursday Night Football open,” Jen Sabatelle, senior vice president of communications, said in a statement. “We will be using our newly created ‘Thursday Night Football’ theme music to open our game broadcast.” | |
| The network will go with the rest of the opening, making actor Don Cheadle’s narration the centerpiece now. | The network will go with the rest of the opening, making actor Don Cheadle’s narration the centerpiece now. |
| You can probably cross Rihanna’s name off the list of possible Super Bowl halftime entertainers, too. |