Your Very Own Um-bra-ella

I remember the first time the heard “Umbrella”. I thought I might like it. Then I heard it again.

And again…and again.

Except, I was so late to jump on the Rihanna train that when I told people I had never heard the song back in June, I got more confused stares than I’m sure this next little tidbit of information will garner:

Rihanna has her own line of umbrellas. Because she has a song called “Umbrella”.

She will also probably get very rich off of all this.

Ranging in price from a reasonable $14.99 (on sale!) to a nauseating $50.00 (very much not on sale), these things aren’t even interesting! One has her name on it…another has a pink strip around the bottom. Which is cool, I guess.

Most of them remind me of the umbrellas you find in the back of the hall closet before you run out the door in the morning.

So, are people going to fork over their hard-earned cash for a piece of pop culture history? Yes, I am sure of it. Rihanna’s um-bra-ellas are set to rake in some serious dough for the singer and, you know what? More power to her.

I’m thinking she deserves to make some money off of people who buy umbrellas because they like, totally love that song that talks about umbrellas!

For the rest of us, I’m thinking I’ll splurge on that $3 piece of crap you can buy off the guys on the corner once the downpour starts.

Maybe Rihanna should sing a song about those.