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As Rihanna Releases Album Cover, Talk of a Rihanna-Chris Brown Marriage

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Is anybody better at her own PR than Rihanna, who has set the Twitterverse on fire with the release by Twitter of the name and cover art for her new album. The recording is called “Unapologetic” and the cover features a naked Rihanna with her hands, a new tattoo and words covering her essential parts.

It will hit the public on Nov. 19, after the recent release of the first single “Diamonds.” Each of Rihanna’s last three Rihanna albums have been released in November (Nov. 20 for 2009’s “Rated R,” Nov. 12 for 2010’s “Loud” and Nov. 18 for last year’s “Talk That Talk”).

While Rihanna teased her fans with the album name and cover, Entertainmentwise.com was quoting friends of Rihanna and Chris Brown saying that they believed the two of them might wind up eloping. The friends say the two of them have reportedly been hooking up in secret for months and it seems they are planning to get super serious, with marriage even discussed.

This is after Brown released a video admitting that he is in love with both Karrueche Tran and Rihanna.

In the video, he confesses that he is love with both women as clips of moments with Tran and Rihanna were shown in a montage.

“I’m stressed out… when you share history with somebody, then you tend to fall in love with somebody else, it’s kinda difficult,” Brown said in the video. “Is there such thing as loving two people? I don’t know if that’s possible, but for me, I feel like that.”

According to sources, Brown made to video in order to “soften the blow” for Tran. The video came on the heels of a statement announcing the end of Brown’s and Tran’s relationship.

So now friends say with nothing keeping them apart, insiders are said to be concerned Brown and Rihanna may get carried away and tie the knot.

“No one close to them would be a bit shocked if they suddenly eloped,” a source told Star magazine.

“Rihanna has told her close friends point blank — I would marry Chris,” the source revealed. “She even says she would have never left him if the media scrutiny didn’t get so bad. They’re passionate, and when they’re drunk, they’ve both made many comments about getting married.”

 

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