Rihanna, one of the biggest names in music at
the moment; has an amazing new track with Calvin Harris called ‘We Found Love’
the video and song are both shockingly different in a great way, there’s so
many variated things happening in the video and the lyrics are well thought of.
At the beginning of the video there’s a little
passage of speech that goes ‘It’s like
screaming, but no one can hear. You almost feel ashamed, that someone could be
that important, that without them you just feel like nothing. No one will ever
understand how much it hurts. You feel hopeless, like nothing can save you, and
when it’s all over and it’s gone, you almost wish you could have all that bad
stuff back, just so you can have the good.’
These words seem like they influence the video
very much, the couple at the start seem so in love it’s unhealthily beautiful.
There love is so strong it’s destructive, similar to the ‘love the way you lie’
video.
I think the camera shots in this video are
absolutely stunning, for example when they show Rihanna taking tons of multi-coloured
pills, then do a close up of her pupil and show it changing shape, also they do
fast forward clips of her and her boyfriend being intimate, and they close up
on the cigarette and put special effects on it to make the ash change colour. I
think things like that make the video so much more unique and awesome.
Her boyfriend in the video, who looks vaguely
like her ex Chris Brown; spends so much time with Rihanna, such as riding a bike
together, going to the skate park, to a supermarket, to parties and in their
home together I think it becomes so much for them both they go slightly crazy,
you can see this kind of effect when he does things like tattooing the word
‘mine’ on her bum and when she throws up what looks like bubblegum, then
they’re sitting in a bathtub together and she starts to drown.
Towards the end of the video they show them
sitting in a car together silently, then they start yelling at each other
arguing and she walks out, similarly, in their home she starts to pack a bag
and walk out the house when he grabs her leg and begs her to stay, their love
is so much to handle I think the video is trying to get across that the couple
just got over whelmed with too much emotion.
Out of the many different outfits Rihanna wears
in he video my favourite is when she’s in the supermarket wearing her baseball
jacket, jeans, boots and beanie hat. I also love the American flag outfit when
she’s partying with friends outside.
Overall I adore this song and video, the camera
shots, the outfits, the whole theme of the video is just WOW. It’s a really up
tempo club-dance tune, they’ll be playing this in bars everywhere for months to
come!
