Barbadian singer Rihanna has released four video albums and appeared in sixty-two music videos, twelve films, thirteen television programs, and several television commercials. In , Rihanna signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings and released her debut single " Pon de Replay ", taken from her first studio album Music of the Sun The music video for " Umbrella ", the lead single from her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad , was directed by Chris Applebaum and featured scenes of Rihanna naked and covered in silver paint.
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What follows certainly lives up to the billing. Depending on which commentator or social media spat you choose, the video — viewed 12 million times since its release — is either an empowering challenge to music industry stereotypes or a racist and gory piece of misogyny. Bitch Better Have My Money BBHMM is a slick seven-minute film, co-directed by one of the few black women in America who has managed to get right to the top of a male-dominated pop industry. The plot is simple — an accountant has defrauded the singer out of money, so she kidnaps his wife, a spoiled, wealthy white woman complete with chichi dog and diamonds. With two friends, she bundles her into a trunk, strips her, swings her upside down from a rope, knocks her out with a bottle, then lets her almost drown in a swimming pool.
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Barbadian singer Rihanna has released four video albums and appeared in sixty-two music videos, twelve films, thirteen television programs, and several television commercials. In , Rihanna signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings and released her debut single " Pon de Replay ", taken from her first studio album Music of the Sun The music video for " Umbrella ", the lead single from her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad , was directed by Chris Applebaum and featured scenes of Rihanna naked and covered in silver paint. The song's accompanying music video features actors Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox in a love-hate relationship while Eminem and Rihanna perform in front of a burning house. In , three of Rihanna's videos met with criticism and controversy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Apple Inc. Retrieved February 28, Universal Music Group.
Written over the course of a year, "American Oxygen" was inspired by the single " Born in the U. It was made available for streaming on Tidal on April 5, , and released for digital download on April 14 via the iTunes Store. The song has patriotic lyrical content about a new America and the chasing of the American dream. It depicts numerous moments from American history while Rihanna sings in front of a large American flag. Originally, Alex da Kid sent the beats of the song to Harris who started writing some lyrics. In an interview with Billboard , Harris noted how "American Oxygen" really stuck with him and he started the chorus with a couple lines he wrote: "We worked on just that chorus for like three or four months, going back and forth, back and forth It goes to show you that sometimes these songs just appear out of nowhere and sometimes you just have to go at it like a block of marble and you're chipping away at it. When they got the final chorus, the producer started to look for potential performers of the song. When the song came across Rihanna, she and Alex da Kid began to adjust the song. The singer and the producer co-wrote the verses together with Harris, "I wrote one thing and then Alex and Rihanna had the idea to turn it into this song about an immigrant story, coming to this country as an outsider
