Love as a emotion can represent alot. Many times as people we look over the things that may represent love and bring out that emotion. Like holding hands, wearing your wedding ring, the color red(yes , the color red), or hugging(family/friends) all evoke the emotion of love. Many symbols also evoke the emotion of love such as hearts or etc.
Controversy: A fashion photographer by the
name of Solve Sundsbo claims Rihanna blatantly stole concepts of the video from
his ’2008 Numero 93′ collection photo shoot.
Homage:
Rihanna grabs
her crotch reminiscent of Michael Jackson's
dance moves.
Video
Layout: In the
first images from the London set, Rihanna sported short blonde hair, torn denim
shorts, patterned leggings, and a white bowler hat. She held a black cane as
she performed scenes in front of a bright pink wall in the visuals inspired by
the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. The
clip is partly a photo shoot and a lyric video as lyrics are stamped across the
screen and Rihanna's body, and was shot mainly in black and white. She wears
numerous outfits and blonde wigs throughout the video as she emulates the
clothes from A Clockwork Orange by wearing a white bowler hat and cane
from Laird Hatters, sporting a smoky eye in homage, and smacking her pink pouty
lips with bubblegum. Rihanna later strips down
to a flesh-coloured leotard as she writhes on the floor with strategically
placed artistic shards of light to created leopard spots and tiger stripes on
her skin. Several scenes capture solely her mouth; first with a gold grill
covering her bottom row of teeth, and later with smoke billowing from her lips
transitioning into and out of the words "Dream" and later "You
Da One".
Another
scene finds Rihanna in a white tank top and tattered jean shorts, swinging a
cane in between two brick buildings. She continuously exudes sexuality; in
several scenes, she touches and thrusts her crotch (reminiscent of Michael Jackson's
dance moves, as noted by Jason Lipshutz of Billboard), struts toward the
camera with a pimp cane, endorses provocative dance moves, and drapes herself
over a giant ball. Using the latter move, she is found in a black and white
checkered background room where she moves around a larger than life playing card. The video ends with Rihanna
running away from the camera and jumping into a chair, throwing her legs over
the side with a smile on her face.
