JR Late Night Blogs: JR's Top 10 Favorite Music Videos: Rihanna

Rihanna's worldwide dominance can still be felt at present.
She has been named Female Artist of the Year multiple times by Billboard Magazine. She is also the youngest artist in history to achieve more than ten #1 Songs in the Billboard Hot 100. Her song "Umbrella" has sold more than six million sales making it her biggest hit and one of the best-selling singles of all time. Rihanna is the queen of digital songs as she is the Highest Selling Digital Songs Artist in Music History.

As we all know, February 20 is the mega birthday of Rihanna.
As a tribute to the Queen of R&B, JR presents to you his Top 10 Favorite Music Videos of Rihanna.

JR LATE NIGHT BLOGS:
JR's TOP 10 MUSIC VIDEOS - RIHANNA

Rank	Music Video Title	Music Artist	Year

1	Umbrella	Rihanna ft. Jay-Z	2007
2	We Found Love	Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris	2011
3	Disturbia	Rihanna	2008
4	S&M	Rihanna	2011
5	Only Girl (In The World)	Rihanna	2010
6	Don't Stop The Music	Rihanna	2007
7	What's My Name	Rihanna ft. Drake	2010
8	Shut Up And Drive	Rihanna	2007
9	Te Amo	Rihanna	2010
10	Man Down	Rihanna	2011

UMBRELLA
(Rihanna ft. Jay-Z)

YouTube Views Count: 59,469,512 Views

Music Release Date: 29 March 2007

Music Video Release Date: 26 April 2007
Genre: Pop | R&B
Song Length: 4 minutes 35 seconds
Music Video Length: 4 minutes 13 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Jay-Z, Kuk Harrell, Terius Nash, Christopher Stewart
Producer: Christopher Stewart
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 1

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBfHwUxHIk

"Umbrella is Rihanna's biggest and most popular music single. It sold more than 6.6 million units worldwide. Rihanna's Umbrella music video gives her a new and different persona. From being the good girl of Pon de Replay, Rihanna becomes the newest music icon that up to present is still being seen in the music industry. The music video presents Rihanna playing with water, dancing under the rain and using the umbrella as a dance prop. This was also the music video that gave Rihanna the ultimate paint-off as her body is fully painted in silver. The song and video became controversial in Europe as it brought extreme rainfall and flooding in the said region. This was then named the 'Rihanna Curse'. JR's favorite music video of Rihanna is Umbrella as it gave her the identity that made her one of today's most popular and most powerful musicians. It gave her the biggest break in her entire career."

WE FOUND LOVE
(Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris)

We Found Love by Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris

YouTube Views Count: 148,583,058 Views

Music Release Date: 22 September 2011

Music Video Release Date: 19 October 2011
Genre: Pop | Electrohouse | Dance-Pop
Song Length: 3 minutes 35 seconds
Music Video Length: 4 minutes 36 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writer: Calvin Harris
Producer: Calvin Harris
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 1

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg

"Last 2011, JR listed the music video for We Found Love by Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris as the #1 Music Video for the Year 2011. Now, JR lists it as his second favorite music video by Rihanna. We Found Love features a 'Chris Brown-ish' guy who is with Rihanna finding love in a hopeless place. The music video somewhat resembles Rihanna's love life and past relationship with Chris Brown. The video also somewhat presents the seven deadliest sins of life - gluttony, pride, lust, greed, sloth, wrath, and envy. In short, it presents the different enjoyments of people in life at present. But, Rihanna came to realize what is right and best for her in the end. One thing is for sure though, and that is, Rihanna found love from her numerous fans. By the way, JR loves the acting skills of Rihanna from this video."

DISTURBIA
(Rihanna)

YouTube Views Count: 41,358,101 Views

Music Release Date: 22 July 2008

Music Video Release Date: 22 July 2008
Genre: Pop | Electropop | Dance-Pop
Song Length: 3 minutes 58 seconds
Music Video Length: 4 minutes 22 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Robert Allen, Andre Merritt, Chris Brown, Brian Kennedy
Producer: Brian Kennedy
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 1

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1mU6h4Xdxc

"Disturbia is indeed one of Rihanna's greatest music singles of all time. Disturbia is actually a slang coming from the popular American phrase 'disturb you'. This music video of Rihanna pushes the said phrase to the limit. It is really very disturbing yet we all love to watch and listen to it over and over again. It presents Rihanna in different torture chambers. She is first seen at a prison chamber with two guards watching her. During the first chorus, she is seen carried by a lot of individuals in front of a gas chamber. She is then seen in a fiery place with her hands tied at the back. Afterwards, she is again in a locked area (with no escape) dancing in a bed with a mannequin. It is followed by Rihanna with her hands and feet cemented inside the wall while tarantulas are crawling around her body. In the final parts of the music video, she is seen in a very small place with her hands and feet tied towards the ground. All-in-all, the music video presents Rihanna's success from the different said tortures. It really is one of my favorite music videos as it shows a different side of Rihanna - Rihanna conquering evil. It is like a horror movie inside a music video."

S&M
(Rihanna)

YouTube Views Count: 36,104,933 Views

Music Release Date: 21 January 2011

Music Video Release Date: 01 February 2011
Genre: Pop | Eurodance | Dance-Pop
Song Length: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Music Video Length: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Mikkel Eriksen, Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm, Ester Dean
Producers: Stargate, Sandy Vee
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 1

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdS6HFQ_LUc

"One of Music Industry's Most Controversial Music Videos of All Time is S&M by Rihanna. S&M means Sadomasochism, a feel of receiving pleasure from infliction and reception of pain or humiliation (often seen during sex). S&M presents Rihanna in a new and different persona - her bitch and slutty side. It shows how Rihanna is having extreme fun from different sexual acts involving her, her friends, and the members of the press. The video was deemed as one of the Most Controversial Music Videos of All Time as it shows excessively sexual actions all thoughout the span of the video. Since it is a music video, then surely it will be shown in MTV and YouTube; which at present, it is already flagged as innappropriate to those who are under 18. The content of the video does not matter (really, it doesn't). What matters the most is how the artist sees and portrays the song that he/she is singing. And long and behold, Rihanna has made S&M one of the best music videos of all time."

ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD)
(Rihanna)

YouTube Views Count: 214,105,290 Views

Music Release Date: 10 September 2010

Music Video Release Date: 13 October 2010
Genre: Pop | Europop | Dance-Pop
Song Length: 3 minutes 55 seconds
Music Video Length: 4 minutes 11 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Crystal Johnson, Mikkel Eriksen, Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm
Producers: Stargate, Sandy Vee
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 1

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa14VNsdSYM

"Rihanna, in either red or brown or whatever colored hair, is one of the Most Beautiful Women in this World. Only Girl (In The World) presents a new classed Rihanna - the one and only good girl side of Rihanna. The music video is definitely creative. The beauty of Rihanna is complemented by the world she is in, a reddish yet luscious and vast land. I just love the fireworks, lanterns, balloons, flowers, swings, and waters used in the video as it made her an ideal woman to be with. The video presents how fun it is in her world - only her, having fun. Red is the new sexy everyone, and hell, it is so much fun to be in the world presented in this music video by Rihanna."

DON'T STOP THE MUSIC
(Rihanna)

YouTube Views Count: 162,096,659 Views

Music Release Date: 07 September 2007

Music Video Release Date: 26 July 2007
Genre: Pop | Dance-Pop | Techno
Song Length: 4 minutes 27 seconds
Music Video Length: 3 minutes 54 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Mikkel Eriksen, Erik Hermansen, Tawanna Dabney, Michael Jackson
Producer: Stargate
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 3

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd8jh9QYfEs

"Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa. This song helps us remember Michael Jackson's 1983 single 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. We can see that Rihanna is transforming from your average girl to the party socialite that everyone wants to be with. The song is catchy and the music video as well. Rihanna's career boomed last 2007 due to songs like this, Shut Up And Drive and Umbrella. The music video presented Rihanna partying in a club hidden inside a candy shop. Well, you have to admit it, we all love to party. Rihanna's Don't Stop The Music, as the title suggests, presents how music makes our life entirely different. We don't want music to disappear; it is just not right. Music is what makes the world go round."

WHAT'S MY NAME
(Rihanna ft. Drake)

YouTube Views Count: 237,580,829 Views

Music Release Date: 29 October 2010

Music Video Release Date: 12 November 2010
Genre: Pop | Electro-R&B
Song Length: 4 minutes 23 seconds
Music Video Length: 4 minutes 24 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Mikkel Eriksen, Erik Hermansen, Ester Dean, Traci Hale, Aubrey Graham
Producer: Stargate
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 1

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0CGsw6h60k

"JR loves New York City. This music video might be Rihanna's simplest yet; but, that doesn't mean it is not beautiful. New York City's beauty is seen through the cars passing by, the people rushing and commuting, and stores that are all around the city. What's great about this video is how Rihanna haves fun dancing around the city regardless of the people who are watching her moves across the streets."

SHUT UP AND DRIVE
(Rihanna)

YouTube Views Count: 29,246,786 Views

Music Release Date: 12 June 2007

Music Video Release Date: 25 June 2007
Genre: Pop | New Wave | Pop Rock
Song Length: 3 minutes 33 seconds
Music Video Length: 3 minutes 59 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, Sumner, Hook, Morris, Gilbert
Producers: Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 15

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up7pvPqNkuU

"As presented in this video, Rihanna is just your average girl. Rihanna is seen in the video as a person repairing cars used in drag races. She is the leader of the group as her female co-workers are behind her supporting and helping her in the business. Whatever job Rihanna takes, she always remain attractive, innovative, different and sexy. "

TE AMO
(Rihanna)

YouTube Views Count: 56,470,434 Views

Music Release Date: 07 June 2010

Music Video Release Date: 14 June 2010
Genre: Pop | Latin Pop
Song Length: 3 minutes 28 seconds
Music Video Length: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Mikkel Eriksen, Erik Hermansen, Rihanna
Producer: Stargate
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: n/a

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4Ic7fHWf8

"This might be your first time to hear Rihanna's song 'Te Amo' as it is not much a hit in the market. The music video of the song, however, is a must see for every Rihanna fan. It is an eccentric love story between two women. The music video is set in a large castle with a huge living room, a large backyard garden, a beautiful front yard, a room with a lot of male dancers, and a bedroom suitable for a couple. I described the story as eccentric since it is the first time that Rihanna showed interest to another woman (a French supermodel actually). The supermodel seduces Rihanna and, apparently, Rihanna falls to it easily. Lesbian love is not much accepted in the past; but, it is now part of today's pop culture. This music video of Rihanna is fit for a romance feature."

#10

MAN DOWN
(Rihanna)

YouTube Views Count: 143,536,058 Views

Music Release Date: 03 May 2011

Music Video Release Date: 31 May 2011
Genre: Pop | Reggae
Song Length: 4 minutes 27 seconds
Music Video Length: 5 minutes 40 seconds
Label: Def Jam
Writers: Shama Joseph, Timothy Thomas, Theron Tomas, Shontelle Layne
Producer: Shama Joseph
US Billboard Hot 100 Peak Position: 59

Music Video YouTubeChannel: RihannaVEVO
Music Video Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhy-RXkNo0

"It all comes to this. Rihanna's Man Down is reported to be worth more than a million dollars (according to Yahoo.com) but it did not do good in the music market. JR listed Man Down as his 10th Favorite Music Video of Rihanna as it showed the beauty of the place where Rihanna came from - the Carribean. The music video was taken from Jamaica (a matter of 2,000km from Barbados, the hometown of Rihanna). The Carribean is indeed beautiful. It has a lot of beaches, delicious fruits, and friendly people."

Rihanna is one of today's greatest and most popular stars.
She had made songs that tells a different story presenting her different personas.
It is in her music videos, though, that the message and personas of Rihanna are revealed.
With millions of views in YouTube, Rihanna has redefined the world of music with videos that have unique concepts and different emotions that struggle in today's eccentric society. Rihanna has indeed contributed a lot to the development of today's very unique music industry.

Rihanna is the second artist in JR Late Night Blog history
to have her music videos featured in JR's Top 10 Lists.

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