Behind The Scenes: Rihanna – ‘Needed Me’ Video

Published: Saturday 23rd Apr 2016 by Sam
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This week saw Rihanna draw the curtain back on her latest video – ‘Needed Me.’

The model’s attempt at the cinematic (which once again saw her bare breasts) received a polarising response from fans and critics alike. A pattern, it seems, with the music an visual output from her eighth studio album ‘ANTI.’

Want to know how the latest RiRi clip was pieced together? Watch a behind the scenes look after the jump…

From where we’re standing, the song and video are much ado about nothing.

Still, once glance at the success of ‘Work,’ and it’s clear a lack of quality isn’t hindering Rih’s commercial clout…on the singles chart.

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  1. King Mark /.\ April 23, 2016

    Hit after hit after HIT! Digital Queen!

    • Iconic Cici April 23, 2016

      Ciara slays her

      • Navy Captain April 23, 2016

        Girl you should do stand up. Lmao. Ciara has never slayed her and never will.

    • Career Ender April 23, 2016

      cos she’s been raking in hits from FFS to AO to BBHMM to Work to KIB (which dropped 3 spaces down after a video) to Needed me ???
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      what a straight long wimming atreak of hits #majah

  2. Arfa April 23, 2016

    Kiss it better video was a fuucking mess and a wasted hit

    • The Thot you’ll never be April 23, 2016

      ikr the fact that the likes of Body Party and Mine were compared to the music video esp after preview dropped

  3. Navyboi88 April 23, 2016

    I can see needed me going to the top 10 bb100

    • IStan4Rihanna. April 23, 2016

      It will hit the Top 10 the week after next – it’s ‘SPOTIFYA’ gains are tremendous as are its airplay gains. It’s currently at #10 on ITunes if you take away Prince songs. 🙂

      • Career Ender April 23, 2016

        the delusions!! you must be vice captain of the titanic army crew
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        what do you mean by if you take Prince’s songs away?

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        so if we take Prince’s album away it means AntiSuccess is #1 for the third week right?
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        hahahahahahahahahah

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        didn’t think the floppage of Anti took a toll on your second grade brains
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        😀 😀 😀

  4. LegendaRih April 23, 2016

    So is tgj not gonna talk about the fact that Rih’s puma slides sold out in minutes?

  5. SWISH April 23, 2016

    lmfao Sam you really shouldn’t let someone you don’t know bother you this much

    • jamon April 23, 2016

      Amen

  6. IG : @mixedboy April 23, 2016

    Slay my life Rih Rih!!!! ??

  7. © Centurion (YEW KNOW I got the SAAAWWWWSE… Yew know I’m SAAAAAUUUU$$$$$$YYYYYY) April 23, 2016

    Rihanna performing Prince’s “Darling Nikki” on the LOUD Tour. https://t.co/O7bQlvPB35

    • Weaveney April 23, 2016

      Keep it.

  8. Annalise April 23, 2016

    POSE BÏTCH!!

  9. Annalise April 23, 2016

    *

    • ???Chile, take this “Itty Bitty Piggy” to the market and make sure you hold her hand while crossing the street!??? April 23, 2016

      I’m so ready for “Lemonade” tonight!!!! I’m just pissed that it’s only an hour, though.

      • Annalise April 23, 2016

        Jeiysheheheiejehwkkdiwhks!
        I can’t fücking wait sis!!!!

        Btw my last pic was from the 03′ Bonnie + Clyde video LOL, sorry I only caught your comment a day afterwards. It was the scene when Beyonce was in the pool and singing Prince’s ‘If I Was Your Girlfriend’ verse in the music video. ?

      • Annalise April 23, 2016

        Yeah it’s a shame it’s only an hour. I’m thinking it can’t be just a film full of music videos, cuz then that would be a pretty short album. I need at least 16 tracks to quench my thirst ???

      • ???Chile, take this “Itty Bitty Piggy” to the market and make sure you hold her hand while crossing the street!??? April 23, 2016

        Is it true that the album is only gonna have 13 tracks? I’m sure that would upset plenty of fans. We’ll have to find a way to deal, anyway.

      • Annalise April 23, 2016

        I hope not! I’ve seen a couple of fake tracklists and I dunno whether I should believe it or not. She never intended to release the album this weekend though, cuz Thursday is the end of the tracking week.

  10. The Thot you’ll never be April 23, 2016

    She’s getting fatter vid after vid
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    Also noticed not only is her music getting old but one can clearly see she’s ageing
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    Wow she must be really the modern Mariah who can’t sing

  11. IStan4Rihanna. April 23, 2016

    CARIBBEAN QUEEN! I Love this Girl so much!

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    “Needed Me” is exploding!

  12. ???Chile, take this “Itty Bitty Piggy” to the market and make sure you hold her hand while crossing the street!??? April 23, 2016

    That guy she killed in the stripclub was beautiful! But he got what he deserved cause I’m sure she was tired of him playing games like he’s not exclusive.

  13. Molly April 23, 2016

    Queen Of Pop… Wish kiss it better was smashing as hard as needed me.

  14. LB April 23, 2016

    Queen, slay

  15. King Mark /.\ April 23, 2016

    How is it so easy for her to get a hit? I want to hear the reason from the pest.

    • Annalise April 23, 2016

      You need a girlfriend.

  16. Career Ender April 23, 2016

    Rihanna you’re beautiful its true

  17. Anastasia Beaverhousen April 23, 2016

    Rihanna is beautiful. End of..

    • Career Ender April 23, 2016

      lil jiggy, you said this like someone said she isn’t

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      you seem a bit pressed

      • Anastasia Beaverhousen April 23, 2016

        I can’t hear you trash, over the cries of hunger coming from your mud hut.

        Time for you to do a rain dance with your tribe and pray for crops next season.

        #FuckOff

      • Career Ender April 23, 2016

        since you got a project house from the government in section 8 you’ve been feeling yo damn self you even forgot to go queue for free soup around cousin keke’s corner
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        I stay in a surbub FYI , I don’t know projects and mud huts , I’ll leave that to your starving a$$

      • Anastasia Beaverhousen April 23, 2016

        Blah, blah, blah. Keep your mud b*** in your mud hut, and simmer down trash.

        I wish you could watch Lemonade tonight, but the library doesn’t provide cable for you. Poor DAT. Kii!

        I’ll be tuning in. I’ll give you a full report,ugly.

      • Anastasia Beaverhousen April 23, 2016

        You stay in ‘surbubs’? Lmao! If you can’t spell it, you don’t live there.

        Try again peasant. Tell amistad I said hi….

  18. Career Ender April 23, 2016

    why is Centurion having a name longer than his entire family and extended family monthly incomes combined together?
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    it doesn’t need rocket science to see that he got troll accounts in tgj judging by his name
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    nasty shack. nasty squatercamp . nasty multiple African diseases and a nasty username
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    what a pathetic shxtty human being

  19. Annalise April 23, 2016

    Mark thumbed up my drag cuz it implied he was ‘straight’ ???. You ain’t slick boo!!!

    • Jackson 5 Nostrils (Tyler) April 23, 2016

      Kiiii

  20. Iconic Cici April 23, 2016

    Rihanna is a whxre

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    Cici is a classy lady that does not go around parading her flat titties around

    • Bish Bye April 23, 2016

      Cici is a thot who tried to be s*** with songs like Ride & Love, S**, and Magic and flopped bc no one wanted to see her d*** except Future and even he hit and quit it and left as careerless as a single Daddy. Poor dat.

  21. Rihboy April 23, 2016

    Her directors this era are focusing more on glamour than the concept of the video. I mean we all know her body is flawless and her beauty can carry, but I’m not understanding her directors this era. She needs to collect the ones she had during the unapologetic or even loud era and bring them together. Furthermore needed me is still climbing so all she needs for real is to perform on some morning show or something or even drop a part 2 to this video using another single maybe desperado. They have to start getting intensely creative when singles start to show promise.

  22. Nigeria loves rihanna April 23, 2016

    Legend riri, slaying effortlessly, Beyonce can never

  23. Mp3Cool April 23, 2016

    Nice song…definetly will hit the top 10 in one week 🙂

  24. Tran uk anti bloper honioey love but it okay girl April 25, 2016

    Nice of Riri

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