i am singing this song fairly loudly and i'm confident my neighbors can hear me at their bbq downstairs, but i don't think they'll mind
― surm, Saturday, 30 May 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
I've liked most of RiRi's singles, but this one, it's just not working for me. It's trying to hard and missing the target in the process.
Although listening to her pretend to be street, will never not be a source of amusement to me.
― someone's attractive cousin (st. nico), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
YUPPPP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3eAMGXFw1o
― lex pretend, Thursday, 2 July 2015 08:18 (nine years ago) link
Did she end up having the money?
― Popture, Thursday, 2 July 2015 08:26 (nine years ago) link
Not sure what the 2015 version of "banned from MTV" is, but...
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
that is the best video i have seen in five years
and yes, she got her money
― surm, Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
i love this video with all of my heart
― 龜, Thursday, 2 July 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
clicked into the middle, saw mads mikkelsen tied to a chair, not sure how i feel about anything
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 July 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart i love this video with all of my heart
― surm, Thursday, 2 July 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
i simultaneously love and hate it
but i def want riri to drive me around in that dopeass car
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2015 04:26 (nine years ago) link
my favourite bit of the video is the bit where she has a specific knife for every type of man who could fuck her over
it's really brilliantly directed imo. so many big event videos these days are hyped to the gills and are just damp squibs to trend for a day and get forgotten by the next, this is one to rewatch and see something new every time. really well paced, tons of details, fits the song
― lex pretend, Saturday, 4 July 2015 09:28 (nine years ago) link
i also wonder whether the hotel room scene echoing the hotel room scene in girlhood where they sing along to "diamonds" was intentional...
― lex pretend, Saturday, 4 July 2015 11:35 (nine years ago) link
I feel like we were cheated out of a dope Mads Mikkelsen death scene
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 4 July 2015 11:46 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's my one issue, his death seems a touch hurried
― lex pretend, Saturday, 4 July 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
the girl is from the movie flop SIMONE
― surm, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 01:51 (nine years ago) link
pacino better have my $10
― some dude, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
one of my biggest regrets is not following up on the impulse to buy nachos and try to take them to rihanna when i realized we were attending the same event
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
ugh what a dummy
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Mh Better Have My Yummies
No idea if it's intentional bt this/45seconds share standing out a mile on radio
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
bitch better have my money doesn't really
― dyl, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
why do they spend the whole thing torturing guy's wife again
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link
is the answer 'because boobs'
^ding ding ding
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
Unlike most revenge movies, it's not like she even runs into any obstacles in her path.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
smdh that this basic-ass revenge fantasy has had such acclaim
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 10:04 (nine years ago) link
Is this a revenge fantasy? I'm having trouble seeing that context, unless this guy messed up her credit. Just seems like a couple minutes of pretending you are in a movie.
Also why does she drag the box into the house by herself in the beginning, while for pretty much the rest of the video her friends are doing all the work while she strikes music video poses?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
because she's a bad bitch
― Upright Mammal (mh), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
maybe once there's that chance youre gonna get the money then you get an entourage, it's like, "hey let me hold that box for you"
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Don't get me wrong she is awesome and this is prob my favorite video she's done since Umbrella but feels sloppily written. I'm sure the artifice is part of the point. All the acting is really believable and it's well-shot. The cinematography is really clever, like that shot in the pool, the scene framed half-underwater.
Maybe it is too good a tease for a Rihanna-starring action movie that sadly isn't actually being made. I would much rather see this movie than any of the real movies coming out this year.
What are her motives? What's her relationship to these other characters? Maybe it is best there is no full movie or full explanation, the viewer can make their own. To everybody it can be something different.
The pop star doing a music video that looks like a movie seems big right now. This is the best one easily.
I don't necessarily think it means anything but is a compilation of subversive pop culture trends. Not going to read any thinkpieces just cos from a sheer surface pop art level this is really well done and everyone involved is believable and Which I guess explains every music video LOL
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
The motive's pretty simple. He's her accountant. He stole her money. She wants it back. She gets it back by kidnapping his wife and then killing him. At the end she is covered in blood and money. It's not Last Year at Marienbad.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for the thesis explaining why her deposit is down to $420 when she first checks it
― Upright Mammal (mh), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
It is bc 420 is the weed number
― not a garbageman, i am garbage, man (m bison), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
It's both - literal torture porn which appeals to enough people to explain why we see the accountant's partner go through all that and not the accountant/Bitch himself - who's gonna get turned on/confused/outraged half as much by the latter?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, July 8, 2015 8:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol thank you. the last frame is fucking priceless
― surm, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
v De Palma
― surm, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
this is great & obv much, much more than just a revenge fantasy
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Saturday, 11 July 2015 00:08 (nine years ago) link
so do we have any info on production/writing for R8 on the whole? are we expecting StarGate jams?
sidenote: where is StarGate in 2015?
― mingalaba, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 05:20 (nine years ago) link
Kanye is exec producer of the album and has had a hand in all 3 singles so far, don't know if that means he's co-producing every song on the album. i get the sense she's deliberately stepping away from the Stargate/Dr. Luke/Terius/Ester Dean hit squad she usually deals with but maybe not.
Stargate have only had a couple semi-big U.S. hits (Fifth Harmony's "Worth It" and Iggy Azalea's "Black Widow") in the 2 years since wonderfully destroying their own formula on Ylvis's "The Fox." i liked their track on the last Ne-Yo album.
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 07:01 (nine years ago) link
worth it makes me so happy. if she continues with this sound on the whole album, it will make me even happier.
― surm, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
i get the sense she's deliberately stepping away from the Stargate/Dr. Luke/Terius/Ester Dean hit squad she usually deals with but maybe not.
― some dude, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 3:01 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I may be proven wrong in a year but at least from 2015's vantage point it looks like nowhere near as many people are working with luke anymore, which may well be heartening
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
other than Nicki Minaj, Usher, Ne-Yo, Ciara, Maroon 5...?
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
i was gonna say Ciara at least
― surm, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
It's funny, I love a whole range of discordant music (CUT HANDS!), but I find her hook on this one unbearably annoying, near intolerable. I felt the exact same way about her umbrella song. I hear it all the time on the radio while driving, and I MUST turn it off immediately. Am I alone in this sentiment?
― xskavenx, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
i am also a weirdo who thinks "Umbrella' is one of her worst hits and doesn't think much of "Bitch" yeah
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
otm but I am indifferent to or despise most of Rihanna's hits
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
can confirm this bangs at house parties
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
she's had some pretty ropey hits, even if you're not into "umbrella" i can't imagine it being one of her, say, 5 worst surely
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
eh yeah more middling i guess
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
radio here cuts out the instrumental part toward the end and the song is very lacking w/o it
― dyl, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link