Behind The Scenes: Rihanna & Coldplay – ‘Princess Of China’

In support of their new LP ‘Mylo Xyloto‘, Coldplay enlisted Rihanna for the cut ‘Princess Of China‘, for which a scene from its upcoming video can be seen above.

Drawing on ‘kung fu’ flicks for inspiration, the video will see Fenty play a Samurai using Geisha girl, following the release of her acclaimed clip for ‘Where Have You Been‘.

Behind the scenes footage below…

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  1. Space T May 14, 2012

    Oh man, the video is private. Anyway, I can’t wait to watch the music video as this song is really awesome!

  2. BEYONCE WINS May 14, 2012

    THAT’S MY B****!!!!

  3. Gilberto May 14, 2012

    I can’t watch it, it’s private. Anyway, I forgot about this flop. Rihanna has released so many flops after flops that it’s quite hard to keep up with them.

  4. JJFan1814 May 14, 2012

    @Gilberto

    Flops??? I’m sure every song off of ‘4’ flopped…What’s that like, 13-14 song album with nothing but flop songs? 🙂

    Anyways, Rihanna always work with the greats!!!

  5. sleek May 14, 2012

    giberto you ever notice nobody ask beyonce to be in their videos not even her own husband rihanna is love around the world she stay winning.

  6. POP ROYALTY ( RéVolution) May 14, 2012

    “THE VIDEO IS PRIVATE”

    so what the f*** exactly this post is about again ? 😡

  7. Hilly May 14, 2012

    I still don”t know why Coldplay is working with her, they’re known to be serious musicians and they are talented. But her voice is not to “goaty”, the song is beautiful and you know why? because they did all the work, not her, as usual.
    XOXO, Hil.

  8. POP ROYALTY ( RéVolution) May 14, 2012

    GUYS be humble ! ” you da one” and “Talk that talk” flopped Too. and they were Radio-friendly and got everything and so much more to be #1 talking about mainstream appeal at least and they FLOPPED. “4” and it’s accompanied singles is the absolute opposite ! they weren’t meant to be for radios and not radio-friendly to begin with. “4” is selling all by itself and it’s risky. nothing is risky about “talk that talk” and it’s songs ! so it trying to appeal to the mainstream audience contrary to the case of “4” , at least “Beyonce” knew what she’s doing when she thought about making “4” , it is ONLY for her fans , she’s satisfied with the numerous hits she got and how much she sold this far. she wanted to make what she love. last time rihanna did the same she flopped “see : rated r” !
    so you all need to give that “flop’ talk a rest. they both RULE !!! 🙂

  9. mobwife May 14, 2012

    Typical RihYAWN, something is always up and open!

    I use to really like Cold Play! Man they fell off big time!

  10. Kreayshawn May 14, 2012

    What the f*** is this nappy headed women doing smh all this n***** s*** going on around here.

    All this fuckery s*** going on around here

    Got these nappy headed black girls running around here thinking there white.

    Young kreayshawn follow me on twitter
    Go cop my soon to be gold debut album when it comes out this summer.

  11. Onyx May 14, 2012

    @POP ROYALTY ( RéVolution)
    Wrong, big time—————– En of Time is radio-friendly, Run The world (Girls) is radio-friendly, Best thing is radio-friendly, countdown is radio-friendly, Love on Top is radio-friendly so, don’t get me wrong but we all know those singles are not different from the others singles that Beyonce has released in the past, is her unique sounds, the same s*** over and over again.

  12. Kreayshawn May 14, 2012

    HERE WE GO WITH THE SAME OLD S*** EVERYDAY..SHE FLOP NO! SHE FLOP NO! YOUR WRONG SHE FLOP.

    JUST SHUT THE F*** UP AND SIT DOWN SOMEWHERE I SWEAR BLACK PEOPLE FIGHT OVER DUMB S*** ON A DAILY.

    IM BETTER THEN BOTH OF THEM H***
    MY HIT SINGLE GUCCI GUCCI GOT MAD VIEWS ON YOUTUB IM THE S***. I GOT SIGNED A RECORD DEAL AND DROPPING A ALBUM THIS SUMMER IM THE S***.

    WHAT YA DOING NOTHING HAHAHA

    IT’S YOUNG KREAYSHAWN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER AND FRIEND ME ON FACEBOOK VISIT MY YOUTUB CHANNEL AND WEBSITE.

    SOMTHING BOUT KREAYSHAWN THIS SUMMER!

  13. POP ROYALTY ( RéVolution) May 14, 2012

    @POP ROYALTY ( RéVolution)
    Wrong, big time—————– En of Time is radio-friendly, Run The world (Girls) is radio-friendly, Best thing is radio-friendly, countdown is radio-friendly, Love on Top is radio-friendly so, don’t get me wrong but we all know those singles are not different from the others singles that Beyonce has released in the past, is her unique sounds, the same s*** over and over again.
    ________________________________________________

    “RUN the world” is RADIO friendly ?!! give me a proof …. everyone , and i mean everyone in PLANET EARTH hated this song when it got released , so i don’t see how is this particular song a radio friendly ?!
    REALLY NOW @ONYX , RUN THE WORLD IS RADIO-FRIENDLY ?!
    for real now ?! 😉

    you know it 😆

    “End of time” is radio-friendly ?!! where is the radio you are talking of ?! of course it is not radio-friendly ! it is not the typical song you will hear on your radio station. not with this sound of it. in the age of “dance music” , her music sound non-radio-friendly !

    “best thing i never had” and also “love on top” can be radio friendly , i will only pass this one for ya 😉 ! but the sound of them is not what you gonna usually found playing nowadays.
    “Countdown” is …. MEH !
    and i don’t think they are similar to anything beyonce has ever released before.
    -this is my personal opinion.

  14. johnvidal May 14, 2012

    I still can´t believe Coldplay collaborated with her
    Anyway… how many singles does this girl release per year? Like 10??? and half of them with huge acts… but still only 1 or 2 become a hit and the rest flop big way (remember they are all radiofriendly, generic, easy and heavily promoted). Too much for a singles queen (not that being a singles queen is good either). How I wish labels would stop pushing these models…

  15. Darren May 14, 2012

    I bet Rihanna already f*** the whole entire group. lol She’ s the industry h**. They should call her Lucy because that p**** got to be loose right now lol
    .

  16. Darren May 14, 2012

    Also that song came out in late Dec. 2011 or the begining of January 2012. I didn’t see the song doing that well on the charts so now they bring in a video. For What!! That’s right these white dudes get a free f*** plus they are using Rihanna for fame BIG TIME.

  17. X,Y,”and Z” May 14, 2012

    (sidenote..) ‘Battleship’ update:

    Since ‘Avengers’ was released, it has cut the World Wide Box Office returns for ‘Battleship’ in half (note the sharp decline in averages BEFORE April 15 and after):

    April 6-8 – $55-M
    April 13-15 $60-M
    April 20-22 $23-M
    April 27-29 $11-M
    May 4-6 – $7.5-M
    May 11-13 – $7.5-M

    ..For a $215-Million total. And now, ‘Battleship’ is running third to..(I still can’t/wouldn’t ever have guessed, nor believed, it..) ‘Dark Shadows’.

    ..But..

    1.) ‘Battleship’ according to deadline.com, then referencing their film-industry insider sources, had a “production cost/budget” of $250-Million.

    2.) An ADDITIONAL $50-Million was then added to the ALREADY EXISTING ‘Battleship’ promotional budget.

    3.) And just what was that “ALREADY EXISTING” ‘promotional budget’?! For certain, a film that cost $250-Million won’t get a $50-Million budget – NO! Another recent, and equally as expensive film, ‘John Carter’ had a promotion budget of $100-M (some had it up to $150-Million). So what’s the final “get-to-theater” costs for ‘Battleship’? And just how much has it (to date) earned?

    Well, to date, it’s earned the said $215-Million. And it’s current total cost is $250M+$50M+$100M = $400-Million. Personally, I think it’s $450-Milion. But, to be generous we’ll use the conservative “$400-M” figure. So now, since it seems as though the WW returns are slowing, and dramatically. ‘Battleship’ will have to NOW depend on U.S. domestic returns for that chanced lifeline. But therein lying in wait, is a Kraken-like creature:

    “There’s only so much money to go around, so there are going to be movies that miss the mark this Summer. Battleship (May 18) has started turning the corner from cynical cash grab to actually look like an entertaining Summer movie, but being sandwiched between The Avengers and MIB 3 pretty much guarantees this winds up being the lowest-grossing of May’s alien invasion movies.”
    (boxofficemojo(dotcom)/news/?id=3434&p=.htm)

    That (low-ball/very conservative/extremely generous) $400-Million is NOT the pass/fail threshold that ‘Battleship’ must cross – NO! The distant, ‘Bermuda-Triangle-hidden’ pass/fail threshold is 1.4 X ‘known costs’ = 1.4 X $400M = $560-Million. That’s OVER 1/2 BILLION DOLLARS that Battleship has to return NOT to fail. So far, it’s done, the said, $345-Million.

    ..That’s $345-Million from a market place that now sees the likes of record-setting “Avengers”, bad reviews, and worse yet word-of-mouth regarding ‘Battleship’…

    Long-story short: Rihanna WILLl be THE FACE of a $400/450-Million disaster-at-sea.

    “BATTLESHIP DOWN.. Rum, pa, pa, pum, rum, pa, pa pum, rum, pa, pum..”

    X,Y,”and Z” — OUT..!!

  18. Benron May 14, 2012

    @Poproyalty and whoever the f*** else
    Beyonce promoted all her singels, Birthday cake is not radio freindly but nods at 24, so Not a Flop.
    Talk that talk flopped, period,
    You da one reached 14, which is not a flop, 14 is high on the charts, (Ya’ll may not know it, cuz You don;t know what hits r llike these days, the onyl flop was talk that talk which trumped all 4 singels!

  19. Onyx May 14, 2012

    @POP ROYALTY ( RéVolution)
    Trust me all those songs were radio-friendly just because two people dislike the song doesn’t mean it wasn’t for the radio, songs like Upgrade U among others could have been in 4 and YOU KNOW IT, there is nothing new.

  20. commanderofthedancefloor May 14, 2012

    wait you da one is a flop?? it got #14 and sold over a million in the US!!! thats a flop?? and ttt has no video it wasnt released as a single it was SUPOSE to be the third single but was replaced by where have you been! other wise there would be a video for it even the lowest charting songs get a video by rihanna!!

    and princess of china a flop? it already got top 20 and has stayed on the chart since the album was released so its doing fine!!!

  21. NX127 – RED LIPSTICK ALL ON DA PAEPA May 14, 2012

    @COMMANDEROFTHEDANCEFLOOR

    and princess of china a flop? it already got top 20 and has stayed on the chart since the album was released so its doing fine!!!
    ______________________________________

    With that, you should stop calling “Best Thing I Never Had” and “Love on Top” flops.

    Because both of them were top 20, both of them were top 5 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart, and the both topped the R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart.

  22. NX127 – RED LIPSTICK ALL ON DA PAEPA May 14, 2012

    other wise there would be a video for it even the lowest charting songs get a video by rihanna!!
    ____________________________________
    OK I’ll wait for “Talk That Talk” then. THE TITLE TRACK + MAINSTREAM SINGLE that didn’t recieve a video release.

    Beyonce is the one who films videos for no singles, these days. “Dance for You” and “1+1” and “Party”…

  23. NX127 – RED LIPSTICK ALL ON DA PAEPA May 14, 2012

    and ttt has no video it wasnt released as a single
    ______________________________________

    **remembers “Set Fire to the Rain” and “Rumour Has It”, plays them and loves them sooooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuuch**

    But it was sent to both mainstream and urban radios, unlike “Love on Top” and “Party”.

    The s*** was BOUND TO FLOP, though. It’s so f*****’ lame dude.. It’s not even about “F*** me”, it’s about “Abuse me and talk dirty to me while you f*** me because it makes me hornie”…. It’s all about f****** who love to be used by black thugs and all. Who would buy that s***???

  24. NX127 – RED LIPSTICK ALL ON DA PAEPA May 15, 2012

    GUYS be humble ! ” you da one” and “Talk that talk” flopped Too. and they were Radio-friendly and got everything and so much more to be #1 talking about mainstream appeal at least and they FLOPPED. “4″ and it’s accompanied singles is the absolute opposite ! they weren’t meant to be for radios and not radio-friendly to begin with. “4″ is selling all by itself and it’s risky. nothing is risky about “talk that talk” and it’s songs ! so it trying to appeal to the mainstream audience contrary to the case of “4″ , at least “Beyonce” knew what she’s doing when she thought about making “4″ , it is ONLY for her fans , she’s satisfied with the numerous hits she got and how much she sold this far. she wanted to make what she love. last time rihanna did the same she flopped “see : rated r” !
    so you all need to give that “flop’ talk a rest. they both RULE !!! 🙂

    __________________________________________________

    CO motherfuckin’ SIGN

  25. Lax May 15, 2012

    @,,,,,,”XYZ”
    (sidenote..) ‘Battleship’ update:

    Since ‘Avengers’ was released, it has cut the World Wide Box Office returns for ‘Battleship’ in half (note the sharp decline in averages BEFORE April 15 and after):

    April 6-8 – $55-M
    April 13-15 $60-M
    April 20-22 $23-M
    April 27-29 $11-M
    May 4-6 – $7.5-M
    May 11-13 – $7.5-M

    ..For a $215-Million total. And now, ‘Battleship’ is running third to..(I still can’t/wouldn’t ever have guessed, nor believed, it..) ‘Dark Shadows’.

    ..But..

    1.) ‘Battleship’ according to deadline.com, then referencing their film-industry insider sources, had a “production cost/budget” of $250-Million.

    2.) An ADDITIONAL $50-Million was then added to the ALREADY EXISTING ‘Battleship’ promotional budget.

    3.) And just what was that “ALREADY EXISTING” ‘promotional budget’?! For certain, a film that cost $250-Million won’t get a $50-Million budget – NO! Another recent, and equally as expensive film, ‘John Carter’ had a promotion budget of $100-M (some had it up to $150-Million). So what’s the final “get-to-theater” costs for ‘Battleship’? And just how much has it (to date) earned?

    Well, to date, it’s earned the said $215-Million. And it’s current total cost is $250M+$50M+$100M = $400-Million. Personally, I think it’s $450-Milion. But, to be generous we’ll use the conservative “$400-M” figure. So now, since it seems as though the WW returns are slowing, and dramatically. ‘Battleship’ will have to NOW depend on U.S. domestic returns for that chanced lifeline. But therein lying in wait, is a Kraken-like creature:

    “There’s only so much money to go around, so there are going to be movies that miss the mark this Summer. Battleship (May 18) has started turning the corner from cynical cash grab to actually look like an entertaining Summer movie, but being sandwiched between The Avengers and MIB 3 pretty much guarantees this winds up being the lowest-grossing of May’s alien invasion movies.”
    (boxofficemojo(dotcom)/news/?id=3434&p=.htm)

    That (low-ball/very conservative/extremely generous) $400-Million is NOT the pass/fail threshold that ‘Battleship’ must cross – NO! The distant, ‘Bermuda-Triangle-hidden’ pass/fail threshold is 1.4 X ‘known costs’ = 1.4 X $400M = $560-Million. That’s OVER 1/2 BILLION DOLLARS that Battleship has to return NOT to fail. So far, it’s done, the said, $345-Million.

    ..That’s $345-Million from a market place that now sees the likes of record-setting “Avengers”, bad reviews, and worse yet word-of-mouth regarding ‘Battleship’…

    Long-story short: Rihanna WILLl be THE FACE of a $400/450-Million disaster-at-sea.

    “BATTLESHIP DOWN.. Rum, pa, pa, pum, rum, pa, pa pum, rum, pa, pum..”

    X,Y,”and Z” — OUT..!!
    **************************
    **************************
    AND EVEN AFTER ALL OF THE “bATTLESHIP” FLOPPPIN ALL OVER THE PLACE AND HAS GONE DOWN AT SEA,,,,,NOW TELL ME WHAT OR WE TO DO, LET US KNOW WHAT WE OR SUPPOSED TO DO SINCE WE HAVE GONE DOWN WITH “BATTLESHIP” AND ONLY YOU AND RIHANNA’S MANY HATERS OR LEFT BEHIND TO DEAL……

  26. Lax May 15, 2012

    @,,,,,”XYZ” And just so you’d know while this shows the movie line
    up for right now, now less watch closely to see if “Battleship” can
    rise up again after it’s first week showing in the US>>>>>>>>>>>
    http://movies.yahoo.com/box-office/

  27. X,Y,”and Z” May 15, 2012

    @LAX re: May 15th, 8:43 am —

    I don’t get it, why did you post that link? ‘Battleship’ isn’t released till this Friday; what gives..??

    The links I. reference/posted are “INDUSTRY STANDARD”! And here, just in case you missed it, is what boxoffice mojo, then referencing a film-industry insider had to say:

    “There’s only so much money to go around, so there are going to be movies that miss the mark this Summer. Battleship (May 18) has started turning the corner from cynical cash grab to actually look like an entertaining Summer movie, but being sandwiched between The Avengers and MIB 3 pretty much guarantees this winds up being the lowest-grossing of May’s alien invasion movies.”
    (boxofficemojo(dotcom)/news/?id=3434&p=.htm)

    And you know what else? ‘Battleship’ was trending lower, coming into this, its opening weekend, than the disappointing ‘Dark Shadows’:

    “Interestingly, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Paramount laugher The Dictator and Universal’s Battleship also are tracking softer than expected before their openings this month. And not for lack of awareness…” <–(4th paragraph http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/dark-shadows-opens-with-550k-midnights/)

    'LAX' did you read, and fully comprehend, that last sentence? Here: "And NOT for a lack of awareness"..!!!! <—That's the bad reviews, and even worse word-of-mouth: "'Battleship': Transformers rip-off" in full-effect! Besides, which 'idiot movie producer' would pump upwards of $400-Million in a movie that has, as its two principal players: (1.) one who just starred in one of the biggest flops of all times, Taylor Kitsch in "John Carpenter", and (2.) Rihanna, who's fan-base DON'T buy her CDs, as she's now a well-established "singles artist"…??? The price of a Movie Ticket/CD are FAR-MORE than a single you d/l off itunes. And it's the VERY same argument I'd made against Kelly Rowland going on Chris' 'F.A.M.E' tour: If Kelly Rowland couldn't …(I just can't resist..wait..wait….) "MOTIVATE" her fans to buy her $12 CD, then how are we to think she could (I know, just one more time..wait..wait..) "COMMAND" them to buy a concert ticket that costs 3-4X more…?! That 'one poor choice' was the single most counter-productive, destructive, career-threatening thing Chris Brown could have done. That one move has now drained much of the energy from Team Breezy (check the blogs if you don't believe me).

    In any case, it's like I've BEEN said: 'Battleship' will fail, and its producers, along with the management/PR Teams that handle all the OTHER actors will ever-so subtly fold the "blame", for its failure, into a neat, crisp package, and then place it around Rihanna's neck. "Rihanna WILL BE 'The Face' of a $450-Million disaster-at-sea!!"

    X,Y,"and Z" — OUT…!!

    P.S. — Oh, Matt Kemp's hamstring is acting-up again… ANNND he's now going through a minor slump. He's now back with Rihanna – they're trying to keep it on the hush. He's a hard-headed fool, and he'll again experience that career-threatening slump, and yet AGAIN fail, as he did in 2010. <—The "Rihanna Effect", in FULL effect..!!

  28. Lax May 17, 2012

    @XYZ,,,My bad but you know what? man you or the only one loosing yo mind over this movie, because me and her navy or as happy as we can be about rihanna being a part of the talk around the UNIVERSE right now, man i mean for real. You see rihanna was given a chance to make her movie feature in one of the biggest movies of the summer. And yes we would love for it to hve done as good a ” Avengers” but the truth of the matter is,,,,,Avengers did not just out do battleship it has out did all of the other movies also, soooooo yo point? Oh yes you just want to take shots at Rihanna ….
    Well ‘XYZ” Let me see you take shots at rihanna # four spot on that forbes list, where is yo BOY CHRISSEY?????????? On that forbes lis or the top twenty hip hop list “XYZ” LAX,,,,,OUT….

    http://www.askmen.com/specials/2012_top_99/9-rihanna.html

    For You “XYZ…….

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