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Celeb News: We Found Love Video- Media Reactions
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We Found Love Video- Media Reactions
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It isn't often that a video lives up to its hype, and in this case, controversy, but dare we say Rihanna's "We Found Love" does.
The singer's ode to falling hard in "a hopeless place" has an upbeat dance groove that may distract from what she's trying to convey, but the video carries the message well.
"We Found Love," which tells the story of two lovers who are enamored with each other but who seem to be in a trainwreck of a relationship, has been hailed as a cross between "Trainspotting" and "Requiem for a Dream." And yes, some have mentioned how if you squint, model/boxer Dudley O'Shaughnessy might remind you of Rihanna's ex Chris Brown.
Time finds the way the video's quick pace takes us through the relationship in just over four minutes to be "incredible," and PopCrush calls it one of Rihanna's best videos yet. What's your verdict?
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10...s-the-verdict/
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Time
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Rihanna’s “We Found Love” Video: Sex, Drugs and a Chris Brown Lookalike
By CLAIRE SUDDATH | @clairesuddath | October 20, 2011 |
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Rihanna’s new music video is simultaneously depressing and uplifting. Filmed in Northern Ireland (Remember hearing about that farmer who kicked Rihanna and her film crew out of his field because she was too scantily clothed? Yeah, that was for this), the video for “We Found Love,” a single from her upcoming album Talk That Talk, is really dark. Not whips and chains, “S&M” dark, more the “love never lasts and we all end up hurting each other in the end” type of dark. Between this, “Rude Boy,” “Man Down” and “Love the Way You Lie,” I’m starting to get the feeling that Rihanna seems disillusioned by relationships. I can’t imagine why.
This is an incredible video. In just four-and-a-half minutes, we’re propelled through an entire relationship, from skate park flirting, to drug fueled hooks ups, to shoplifting, to a terrible fight in a car, to more drugs, to an overdose, to an involuntary butt tattoo, to screaming and crying and Rihanna’s inevitable mascara-stained face as she says goodbye. Oh, and somewhere along the way she vomits ribbons.
But “We Found Love,” the soundtrack to this romantic train wreck, runs counterpoint to those images—it’s a euphoric, dancehall pop song about finding love in “a hopeless place.” We won’t speculate as to the psychology behind casting an actor who is the splitting image of Chris Brown (he of the hitting and the occasional bleached ‘do), but there’s something here that’s angry and dark and joyous. Rihanna, more than any pop star out there right now, is a pro at combining those three things into something eminently danceable.
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2011/1...#ixzz1bLADODKr
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The Village Voice
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Events In Popular Music
Rihanna Chooses Life In The Self-Consciously Edgy Video For "We Found Love"
By Maura Johnston Thu., Oct. 20 2011 at 9:30 AM Comments (1)
Categories: Events In Popular Music, Rihanna
Yesterday the video for "We Found Love," the first single off Rihanna's sixth (!) album Talk That Talk, landed online, and it's definitely taking the '90s revival to heretofore-unseen mainstream levels: Ri wears Docs and washed-out denim as the housey, repetitive song swirls around her; the landscape of Ireland is shot in a way that recalls both Trainspotting and The Snapper (the latter was the 1993 sort-of-a-sequel to The Commitments, about a young single woman who gets pregnant). And this being a video by Rihanna, who's still trying to paint herself as edgy and out there, sex and drugs are present as well. There are makeout sessions in a bathtub and in a takeaway shop and in a grocery. There are also lots of references to, gasp, drugs, which will no doubt result in MTV calling for edits to the clip. Shoot, I bet they'll even want to edit out the scene that finds Rihanna's paramour blowing cigarette smoke into the pop star's mouth. (Is this a thing that people find erotic?)
The online reception to this video has been almost as rhapsodic as the one that accompanied Beyoncé's video for "Countdown" a couple of weeks back, and it's easy to see why. The clip, directed by Melina Matsoukas, looks quite lovely, with a hazy early-morning feel that makes the reveling within seem like it can last forever; and the plot, such as it were, speeds through a morality play about how being crazy in love can tip over into being just, well, crazy. (Although this brings up a question about how the song itself relates to the video's unfolding; surely someone might have noticed that the melody's persistent loop, augmented here and there by a few space-warp effects, might echo the bad-love cycle played out by Rihanna and boxer/model Dudley O'Shaughnessy?)
But there's something about the video's devil-may-care attitude that gives it a whiff of trying too hard—witness the shots of pills and other thrills (ooh, a burning joint!) that seem designed to be quote-unquote banned by MTV's drugs-averse standards and practice department, or the topless-but-not shots of Rihanna cavorting in a field that gave the clip some pre-premiere publicity. While the song itself isn't as "look at me be bad" as the tiresome "S&M" or the album's "you have something in the corner of your mouth there" cover, the clip fills in the rebel-girl gaps, what with the minor shoplifting and the public frottage and the donuts in front of gloomy apartment towers. The revelry reminds me of high school, when the more annoying punk types were more than happy to refer to themselves as the "definition of nonconformity," without realizing the contradictions inherent in that phrase. Only there's an added twist, because honestly, are we supposed to believe that one of the most famous pop stars in the world can't pretty much do whatever she wants anyway? How is she rebelling against anything when she can probably buy and sell all the people from whom she's stealing shopping carts, or to whom she's subjecting to her public displays of affection?
Maybe "We Found Love" is a deeper metacommentary on how empty life can be in 2011, even for someone who has all the trappings that cause outsiders to think of them as successful—fame, chart-topping records, a fanbase that's arranged itself under a single banner. Viewed through the lens of being an ode to cheap thrills giving the best kind of high even for those people who are winning at life, it makes a little more sense, although the outlook put forth by that message is still somewhat gloomy.
One thing's for sure: That shared-smoking thing looks absolutely gross.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/...love_video.php
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Congrats to Rih! This vid is a masterpiece!
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Interesting how all of them are mentioning Breezy.
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Wow.. I expected the media to be very negative about the video.... 
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HLN (Belgian newspaper)
Sex, drugs and despair in new clip Rihanna
Is unlikely that the new clip of Rihanna never will be displayed on nickelodeon. How dazzling artistic and sophisticated images in "We Found Love" are, they can hardly be called a founder.
Rihanna when she knew instantly the British former boxer Dudley O'Shaughnessy saw that she wanted him as a protagonist. The chemistry between the two splashed on the screen, next to the camera and they said to each other's body to remain difficult.
Rain pills
In the clip they do it in a bath, in the car and on a bed. Nothing wrong, but their love is impossible. There are drugs in the game, suggests a rain of pills, and despair penetrates quickly inside the lawless uitbindigheid.
Shoplifting
Rihanna we steal in a store, not exactly something you want to see your teenage ape. The booze flows freely, they will smoke a dozen cigarettes in her mouth blown. Dudley tattoos' Mine "on her ass, and that is the fraction. Little girls grow up, that much is clear.
Brilliant clip and a perfect fitting, beautiful settings too. Only: the status of role model who voluntarily chose not Rihanna but plays as we dare - at the risk out of the corner to get squeamish - but some big question marks are in order.
Sex scenes not hypocrisy
Fortunately there seems to be in real life something beautiful to blossom between Rihanna and Dudley. "I saw him and I wanted to kiss him right away and ... you know what I mean. We had to pretend we feigned sex scenes," said the singer.
Dudley himself found it pleasant days: "I wish there was no end." This is not necessary, because the two are still in touch. He traveled with her to Glasgow, Scotland, and the two make big plans. Next month after Rihanna was back in Britain for the rest of her tour. "There is a lot of sexual chemistry between those two," says an insider. That was not escape us. (Lb)
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Well Christ Browns appearance sure helped he didn't it?
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This is what people wanted post Chris Brown.
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Is unlikely that the new clip of Rihanna never will be displayed on nickelodeon. How dazzling artistic and sophisticated images in "We Found Love" are, they can hardly be called a founder.
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Originally posted by DTR_B
Rihanna when she knew instantly the British former boxer Dudley O'Shaughnessy saw that she wanted him as a protagonist. The chemistry between the two splashed on the screen, next to the camera and they said to each other's body to remain difficult.
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Rain pills
In the clip they do it in a bath, in the car and on a bed. Nothing wrong, but their love is impossible. There are drugs in the game, suggests a rain of pills, and despair penetrates quickly inside the lawless uitbindigheid.
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