http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg
This is the music video for We Found Love by Rhianna. After watching the video and looking at the lyrics of the song the ideological position it is advancing is that love is a wonderful thing that uncontrollable/expected and not always good for you but worth experiencing no matter what the consequences.
This is the music video for We Found Love by Rhianna. After watching the video and looking at the lyrics of the song the ideological position it is advancing is that love is a wonderful thing that uncontrollable/expected and not always good for you but worth experiencing no matter what the consequences.
In the video, you see Rhianna and her 'lover' to be in a drug induced party phase for the entire video where they are smoking and doing crazy things such as driving fast in a seemingly drunken state. All what you would consider 'anti-romantic' if you ask me, which is what makes the very appropriate to what the song title is called 'we found love' since you wouldn't consider two people who are supposedly hitting rock bottom to find love with one another in such a hopeless place. The video doesn't portray the conventional 'lovey' scenes such as the guy giving the girl a bouquet of roses or giving her jewlery. You see lewd gestures, obscene actions, and drug use, all which you would usually associate with love. She's also no conveying that she is the typical 'feminine' women, she shows her off as a tough, powerful woman.
When you first hear the song, it is very upbeat but once you listen to the true lyrics, it isn't what it seems. The song seems upbeat and makes you want to dance which signifies the type of feeling she is having and the love she has for her 'lover'. This upbeat of the song, despite its sad message (of even though she and her 'lover' found love in a hopeless place, she knows its not right for her and must let it go), it reminds me of the unexpected and butterflies in the stomach when you first have your eyes set on that special someone, despite what people say or tell you whether they are a good fit for you or not.
Her voice does not seem melancholic because in the begining of the video, you are able to see she was at the worst point of her life and that the video began at the end of her love story. As the video progressed, the video showed her love life back in time as she reminisces about their time together as a couple (the good and the bad). She's sending the message about love that even though we have been to hell (the scene with her fighting with her 'lover' in the car and her walking out of the car) and back (seeing them lovey-dovey at the beach), she does not regret it and appreciates every moment they had together. Rhianna created her own non-sterotypical definition of what love is/can be and embraces/portrays it in her music video.
Im a Rhianna fan myself and when I read the guidelines for this weeks posting the first thing I thought of was this song! It is the craziest music video of drug abuse and love. I think it is interesting that you point out the beat of the song makes you want to dance and party, but the actual lyrics are not happy or up-beat at all. Great topic!
ReplyDeleteI fell in love with this video despite my general hatred towards popular music. The video makes the song what it is. The opening few lines that she speaks are so very powerful to me, and I think this is because I am a pretty big sucker. When I looked more into what this video was and what it meant, I found that the point it was trying to make was not anything related to drug abuse. The point being made was how love can be like a drug. You can become almost addicted to the feeling, that without it you feel like nothing. You crave the feeling more than anything and it can hurt you more than anything all at once. Great idea for a reading.
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