The latest and greatest (term used loosely) treat unlocked by fans of Barbadian beauty Rihanna is the visual for the Calvin Harris produced ‘We Found Love’. The first cut lifted from her soon to be released ‘Talk That Talk’, the Melina directed video finds the singer in northern Ireland singing about a hopeless place from a familiar place – fields, meadows, and the like.
Hungry? Riri serves her latest microwaved dish after the jump:
A hopeless place indeed.
While the song may sound like something from a video game soundtrack, the visual does help distract you from its never-ending repetition as it is, in essence, a 4-minute ‘Behind the Music’ special. For, in a flex of her only ‘talents’, once again the role model has lived up to such billing for young girls and the recently mentored on X Factor in ‘We Found Love’ – where she’s found smoking like a chimney, engaging in a host of sexual acts, and the like. Said stint on the talent show as guest “judge” should demonstrate to those talented hopefuls that they too can reach her dizzying heights of vocal status by abusing alcohol, smoking excessively, etc.
On the other hand, being the fair, unbiased site that we are, we must give props where they are due. This is definitely one of Riri’s best visual offerings to date (which says a lot) and she certainly could have chosen to go in a different, less interesting direction – like, umm…her other videos. Instead, she chose drugs, sex, rock n’ roll and the accompanying story of a young couple rebelling against society and naysayers alike while simultaneously self-destructing due to that same rebellion. The true meaning of being ‘dangerously in love’.
Have we seen this somewhere before?