Rihanna, Chris Brown here with bagful of 'surprises'

MANILA, Philippines – “Am I a good girl gone bad? Yes, every good girl has a bad girl inside her and I am not an exception.”

That was what Rihanna, 20, said in an interview radio Magic 89.9 shared with The STAR recently.

“I can be a good girl but I’m a bad girl all the time,” jokingly added the pop star, referring to her hit song Good Girl Gone Bad, who was promptly put by Jay-Z under contract with his Def Jam Recordings in 2005 after he listened to a demo tape brought to the US by a record producer who met Rihanna in Saint Michael, Barbados, where she was born and spent her early childhood.

Rihanna flew in last night with pop-rock singer Chris Brown, 19, from Jakarta where their concert was cancelled due to apprehension spawned by the execution of the Bali bombers.

The two, rumored to be “making beautiful music together,” will star in a concert tonight at the Bonifacio Global City Open Field, part of their Asian tour and their first time to perform in the Philippines.

The media swooped down on Rihanna and Chris as soon as they arrived at NAIA.

“Am I bothered by the paparazzi?” Chris asked in a similar STAR-Magic 89.9 hook-up interview. “In a way, I am but I try not to worry about them. If I can, I try to avoid them.”

Admitting that they’re here with “a bagful of surprises” for their fans, Rihanna and Chris begged off from revealing what’s in store for the audience at tonight’s concert.

“I just want people to be surprised,” he had said. “There’s no point coming to the show if there’s no surprise to look forward to. Imagine watching a movie and already being told what the ending is.”

Again taking a cue from Umbrella, her other hit song, Rihanna had said she expected fans to show up at the venue with umbrellas, just like what they do everywhere Rihanna has a show.

That’s a good reminder, considering that monsoon rains have been relentlessly falling these past few days.