Rihanna Is Dealing with Backlash for That includes Johnny Depp in Newest Savage x Fenty Present

Nicely, that was quick. Only a week after releasing new music, Rihanna pulled a transfer that followers are decidedly much less hyped about.

On November 2, Leisure Weekly confirmed that Johnny Depp will likely be featured in Rihanna’s upcoming Savage x Fenty Present Vol. 4, which hits Amazon Prime on November 9. Depp, who has been accused of home abuse by ex-girlfriend Amber Heard, would be the first man to have his personal highlight section, per TMZ. 

Although Depp received his extremely publicized defamation case in opposition to Heard, many Rihanna followers do not perceive why the “Carry Me Up” singer is selecting to present Depp a platform. (He misplaced a separate libel case within the UK in 2018.) “Johnny Depp has been embraced as a hero by unhinged right-wing misogynist extremists, and now he is been invited to look within the @SavageXFenty present,” Twitter consumer Drew Dixon tweeted. “By no means anticipated such a strong girl to succumb to the #MeToo backlash. Actually disappointing @rihanna.”

One other Twitter consumer wrote, “Rihanna going out of her strategy to, like, rehabilitate the picture of a home abuser and rapist is fucking loopy trigger the hell is Johnny Depp, a quickly decaying corpse, going to do at a LINGERIE SHOW?” Good query.

“Rihanna stans actually waited 7 years for a ballad and the platforming of an abuser,” one other Twitter consumer wrote, whereas Vulture author Zoë Alliyah tweeted, “This rihannaissance beginning to really feel like rihanmageddon.”