So I have been sick and recovering from a series spider bites, very gross and painful, which have led me to look into moving from my current apartment. It's such a pain in the mental sense, mold, dust and pollen, and super mean spiders all on my first floor apartment..
Anyways, so I have this thought that I have been mulling over since I first saw Rihanna's video for her song 'Umbrella' which she also performed at the MTV Movie Awards. The footage shot at the shows was pretty bad, it cut off most of the dance moves and was hard to watch-like there's a part where she's obviously shaking her hips for the audience and you can't see what she's doing, you have to just guess from the look on her face that it's something special??
Eh, So here is the something that I have been pondering now that you have seen her video or at least one performance of the song. Why are the clothes S&M with lots of black and men running around in night army gear in the video?? The song for the most part is really upbeat and cutesy-she does wear black ballet point shoes in the video, what is the underlying point?
Is it to highlight Jay'Z's gold sneakers? Is it to make everyone look more sexy? Is it to emphasize that Rihanna is tough and not just a good girl anymore?? Is it just to look cool and avant garde?? I think all of the above and then some-
I think the point is to highlight that the song is not really so happy go lucky, at one point the lyrics say 'when the world has broke you apart, when the world has dealt it's cards, we'll stand together, I'll mend your heart.' I think the black is to symbolize that life is tough, the losses can be higher than the gains, no matter how great your life turns out. So, to say to someone I'll be there no matter what is a very serious and sobering thought. And depending on your life, this song highlights a complicated life, it can be very painful and hard to be there with someone through the very serious 'rain' in life.
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