"We Found Love" music video, which is filled with explicit materials including drug use and violence, has landed Rihanna in hot water. An anti-rape organization slams the Barbados singer, accusing her of visualizing woman as "an object to be possessed by men."
"Rihanna's new video is a disgrace," Eileen Kelly of the Rape Crisis Centre voices her complaint to the Daily Star. "It sends the message that she is an object to be possessed by men, which is disturbingly what we see in real violence cases."
Riri hasn't responded to the criticism, but the director Melina Matsoukas already slammed any claims suggesting they're glorifying abusive relationship even before the protest arose. "We love, obviously, to do provocative imagery," she told MTV. "I think because, in the end, it's not really at all about domestic violence."
"It's really just about it being toxic, and they're on this drug trip and that definitely plays a part, but I think it's also about being triumphant over those weaknesses, and she leaves him. It's not trying to glorify that type of relationship. The bad parts of it, that's what you don't want. In the end, her leaving, it represents her getting that out of her life."
The "We Found Love" music video featured Dudley O'Shaughnessy as Riri's love interest. The video's gritty content and Dudley's resemblance to Chris Brown sparked speculation that the singer tried to re-enact her doomed relationship with Breezy.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Justin Bieber Confirms Title and Lines Up Kanye and Drake for New Album
Justin Bieber has confirmed his manager Scooter Braun's statement which suggested that he names his new album "Believe". The "Mistletoe" singer addressed that matter when talking to MTV
recently. During the same occasion, he additionally revealed two featured guests for the upcoming LP.
"Very soon [it'll be released], after my Christmas album," the Canadian pop singing sensation gushed before adding, "It's going to be coming out. It is called Believe. I'm working with a lot of cool people. I'm working with Kanye [West]. Drake is going to work on the album with me."
The revelation once again slams rumors which emerged earlier this year mentioning that Bieber was reluctant to work with Kanye West over concerns that the rapper would damage his squeaky-clean image. "He's such a cool guy, and he's just really laid-back and just nice," the teen star previously praised the MC.
As for Drizzy, he has long been linked to Bieber because they come from the same country, Canada. They have praised each other and repeatedly talk about how they'd love to make a duet for a future project. Most recently, Bieber remixed Drizzy's expletive-laden single "Trust Issues" and toned it down to a PG-rated for his young fans.
The rapper commented, "I wish he would've left all the cuss words in it. I feel like that would've been so G, if he would've done all the swearing. I was excited when I heard he remixed it, because there was like a gang of swearing in that song. I was like, 'Oh, we're about to hear the transformation of Bieber'."
Exact release date for "Believe" is yet to be announced, but Braun said it would be out by summer 2012. Talking about the creative process, the manager stated, "He's [Bieber] pretty adamant about writing a lot of [the album]. And he played me some stuff that he's been doing on his own. He wrote this amazing song that sounds like a Jodeci record."
Bieber himself revealed he's experimenting with new sound that would be embraced by his young core fans and older people. "So it might sound weird at first, but it's going to be like when Justin Timberlake did 'FutureSex/LoveSounds': It was a new sound ... acoustic guitar over hard drums," he dished on.
He added, "I want to find something that's going to suit me and my fans are going to love and older people will like and younger people will like. But I'm always trying to keep my core fanbase, because the young people are what make everything cool. Old people look to young people, so trying to keep everyone happy."
"Very soon [it'll be released], after my Christmas album," the Canadian pop singing sensation gushed before adding, "It's going to be coming out. It is called Believe. I'm working with a lot of cool people. I'm working with Kanye [West]. Drake is going to work on the album with me."
The revelation once again slams rumors which emerged earlier this year mentioning that Bieber was reluctant to work with Kanye West over concerns that the rapper would damage his squeaky-clean image. "He's such a cool guy, and he's just really laid-back and just nice," the teen star previously praised the MC.
As for Drizzy, he has long been linked to Bieber because they come from the same country, Canada. They have praised each other and repeatedly talk about how they'd love to make a duet for a future project. Most recently, Bieber remixed Drizzy's expletive-laden single "Trust Issues" and toned it down to a PG-rated for his young fans.
The rapper commented, "I wish he would've left all the cuss words in it. I feel like that would've been so G, if he would've done all the swearing. I was excited when I heard he remixed it, because there was like a gang of swearing in that song. I was like, 'Oh, we're about to hear the transformation of Bieber'."
Exact release date for "Believe" is yet to be announced, but Braun said it would be out by summer 2012. Talking about the creative process, the manager stated, "He's [Bieber] pretty adamant about writing a lot of [the album]. And he played me some stuff that he's been doing on his own. He wrote this amazing song that sounds like a Jodeci record."
Bieber himself revealed he's experimenting with new sound that would be embraced by his young core fans and older people. "So it might sound weird at first, but it's going to be like when Justin Timberlake did 'FutureSex/LoveSounds': It was a new sound ... acoustic guitar over hard drums," he dished on.
He added, "I want to find something that's going to suit me and my fans are going to love and older people will like and younger people will like. But I'm always trying to keep my core fanbase, because the young people are what make everything cool. Old people look to young people, so trying to keep everyone happy."
Beyonce Knowles Is Multitasking in 'Party' Music Video Ft. J. Cole
Beyonce Knowles throws a house party for her celebrity guests in a music video
for her latest single "Party". Rocking various bright-colored outfits, Queen Bey tries her best to be a good hostess. While her guests chill out in the backyard, she does the cooking, leads the dancing, and also mows the lawn.
Getting invited to the party are Beyonce's sister, Solange Knowles, and the former member of Destiny's Child, Kelly Rowland. Also coming to have some fun at the awesome bash is thepregnant
singer's featured guest J. Cole who arrives in style by driving a blue bugatti.
When the music video was previewed two days ago, Beyonce was attacked by Khia for allegedly copying her "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" video. She tweeted, "I'm @beyonce baby's god mother, if it's girl she naming her Khia! B TY for taking my advice & and tips on how to make a real hood video!"
"@beyonce thanks you for the love the tweets & roses! To bad I don't bulldag with prego women. Call super head jay knows all about her," she added two more messages. "@beyonce has been smoking rocks if she thinks her J. Cole remix flop "Party" will be as big as My Neck My Back."
"Party" music video was filmed last summer in the Oakdale Mobile Home Park in South Brunswick Township, NewJersey
. "We just had a really good time," one of the guests Kelly said. "We were doing certain stuff that we used to do as kids. We kinda felt a little goofy for a second, so we stopped. But we just had a good time."
"Party" is one of the singles appearing in Beyonce's latest studio installment "4". The album version of the song features OutKast's Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000). Talking about landing the spot in the remix, Cole said it's a blessing. He revealed that he recorded verses for the song even before the album came out.
"Then she reached out to me and she wanted me to get on the remix. I did two more verses. Out of the second set that I did, she picked the first verse. But my second verse, I just gotta say for the record... It was just too long, I think she was looking for something shorter and more to the point," he recalled.
Getting invited to the party are Beyonce's sister, Solange Knowles, and the former member of Destiny's Child, Kelly Rowland. Also coming to have some fun at the awesome bash is the
When the music video was previewed two days ago, Beyonce was attacked by Khia for allegedly copying her "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" video. She tweeted, "I'm @beyonce baby's god mother, if it's girl she naming her Khia! B TY for taking my advice & and tips on how to make a real hood video!"
"@beyonce thanks you for the love the tweets & roses! To bad I don't bulldag with prego women. Call super head jay knows all about her," she added two more messages. "@beyonce has been smoking rocks if she thinks her J. Cole remix flop "Party" will be as big as My Neck My Back."
"Party" music video was filmed last summer in the Oakdale Mobile Home Park in South Brunswick Township, New
"Party" is one of the singles appearing in Beyonce's latest studio installment "4". The album version of the song features OutKast's Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000). Talking about landing the spot in the remix, Cole said it's a blessing. He revealed that he recorded verses for the song even before the album came out.
"Then she reached out to me and she wanted me to get on the remix. I did two more verses. Out of the second set that I did, she picked the first verse. But my second verse, I just gotta say for the record... It was just too long, I think she was looking for something shorter and more to the point," he recalled.
