As ‘You Da One’ continued to tumble further down the Billboard Hot 100 this week – down two froms to #25 – Rihanna has released the track’s accompanying video. Directed by Melina, the video includes visual dedications to Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ movie, although it was far from as impressive as the classic film.
Rihanna’s previous release, ‘We Found Love’, was recently crowned as The Lava Lizard’s Best Video of 2011. Meanwhile, the song continued to dominate the Billboard Hot 100 for an eighth week – Rihanna’s longest stay at the top of the chart and the longest-running #1 single of 2011.
Watch the ‘You Da One’ video below:
Rihanna basically did the same thing that Beyonce has done for years – put forward a brilliant video for her lead single that would generate massive attention for her project and then got lazy with her second release because she knew that the song would benefit from the momentum generated by its predecessor. Indeed, the ‘You Da One’ clip is quite lackluster and did nothing to encourage us to like the horrendous song.
What exactly did this video have to do with the lyrics of ‘You Da One’? Honestly, Rihanna just posed for a series of glmaour shots, performed an embarrassingly stiff wine and recreated some scenes of her ‘S&M’ clip with the only difference being that the ‘You Da One’ shots were filmed in black and white.
Rihanna truly has a knack for giving people false hope. Just when we started to think that she would compensate for her startling lack of vocal, songwriting and dancing talents by improving her skills as a visual artist, she released this filth.
Guess who is getting a lump of coal and a one-way plane ticket back to Barbados for Christmas?
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