That is rather over my head.  You mean, the lyrics of Rihanna's song are "meta"?  As in Carly Simon's "You're so vain you probably think this song is about you"?  Well, perhaps.  I shall think about it, once I have read the lyrics of Rihanna's song, with which, needless to say, I am not acquainted.

Presumably Rihanna's "SOS" is not just another artist's redo of Abba's "SOS"?

It is a bit weak that all the sites for this Live Earth event are pretty safely secularized places, including Istanbul.  Really, they should have done their best to bedazzle the puritanical fundamentalists, by organizing events in Riyadh, Cairo, Abuja, Mogadishu, Khartoum, Gaza City, Ramallah, Tyre, Damascus, Tehran, Kandahar, Karachi, Dhaka, Kuala Lumpur and Djakarta.  And the promotional posters should feature shapely female models showing some flesh, without being outrightly pornographic; they would go up everywhere, in the middle of the night.  And those posters should go up as well in Muslim neighborhoods in Europe.  The text should include a beautiful calligraphic banner, saying something like "Allah loves his creation," or "Islam loves the Earth," or whatever, along those lines.

And it would not matter if the Live Earth events came to pass anywhere, given all the legal complications in those countries, so long as there were good, competent crews of documentarists recording the opposition.

And if people risked their lives in this effort -- well, that is what activism is all about, no?

Really, the very safe Live Earth program that has already been planned is quite boring.  No?

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!