Taking us on a ride whilst blatantly ignoring the rampant poverty in India. Showing us a glamorous side that is only accessible to 9% of the Indian population? All for some pretty visuals?
I couldn't see Rih taking part of something so intentionally insensitive. Even if Coldplay formulated the idea and such.
I love Bey, but it's a tad annoying that she did that.
Wait, did you not see the Princess of China video or something?
Taking us on a ride whilst blatantly ignoring the rampant poverty in India. Showing us a glamorous side that is only accessible to 9% of the Indian population? All for some pretty visuals?
I couldn't see Rih taking part in something so intentionally insensitive. Even if Coldplay formulated the idea and such.
I love Bey, but it's a tad annoying that she did that.
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intentionally insensitive
are you really insinuating that Coldplay sat down and said, "let's INTENTIONALLY make an insensitive video"
1) It is a hit
2) Bey isn't credited
3) Hymn For The Weekend is bigger than Princess Of China so I don't find any reason it would be more successful with Rih
Taking us on a ride whilst blatantly ignoring the rampant poverty in India. Showing us a glamorous side that is only accessible to 9% of the Indian population? All for some pretty visuals?
I couldn't see Rih taking part in something so intentionally insensitive. Even if Coldplay formulated the idea and such.
I love Bey, but it's a tad annoying that she did that.
We all know Rihanna takes part in exclusively sensitive things in her videos like partying till one cannot feel his/her own legs to the point of beginning to twerk, showing drug substance abuse, and being anti-bra.
If that's what you call not being "intentionally insensitive"... If I was you, I wanna be me too.
I do get the critique of Hymn for the Weekend's music video, and I wish it had a much different theme, but in the scope of appropriation, it is on the better end of the spectrum. At least it’s actually set and filmed in India instead of just reproducing it in America, and at least it’s celebratory of the culture rather than taking it and ripping it into as many pieces as they want for the sake of looking cute.
The fact that it ignores the poverty in India sucks, but music videos are often escapist. How many pop videos do you see about the poverty in America? Now how many are set in fancy hotels and mansions?
No, I don't support this logic, this's like saying Drake made Work a hit.
Judas went top 10 and multi platinum ther, that's a hit.
Drake indeed solidified the hit status. All his fan base flocked to it. And their combined power made it the biggest urban hit. And please judas is not a hit. It literally collapsed on the chart because radio wouldn't play it. I witnessed it first hand.