Monica – Until It’s Gone (video premiere)
The music video for Soul Diva Monica’s current single, “Until It’s Gone”, premiered on BET’s 106 & Park last night. The music video features actors Malinda Williams and Brian White as a couple whose lives are about to be forever altered when she discovers he’s been cheating on her. Monica plays the brokenhearted bestie who tried to warn her.
Rihanna – “We Found Love” music video premiere
As we told you on Monday, Rihanna’s music video for her current single “We Found Love” would premiere this week. The music video highlights Rihanna’s disturbing tendency to cling to unavailable men such as Chris Brown and Matt Kemp. Then when these men predictably abuse her (verbally or physically), instead of moving on with her life she blames them for her own inadequacies and spirals emotionally out of control.
Meanwhile, Rihanna’s successor, singer Miranda Brooke (pictured above), held a meet and greet for New York’s music industry yesterday. Unlike Rihanna, Miranda is a talented singer who has a long, promising career ahead of her.
Watch Rihanna’s music video after the break.
Rihanna Settles Lawsuit With Photographer
Rihanna’s bank account is $1 million lighter after she settled a lawsuit with celebrity photog David LaChapelle for stealing his ideas in her music video.
In his lawsuit, LaChapelle cited raunchy scenes in Rihanna’s “S&M” music video which were direct copies of his provocative pictures.
In July, a federal judge agreed with the celebrated lensman, saying the lawsuit had merit and could proceed through the courts.
Rihanna and her lawyers collapsed like a house of cards and quickly agreed to a financial settlement.
Jaret Keller, LaChapelle’s publicist, confirmed Rihanna had settled the case but declined to comment further. He said, “David is happy with the settlement.”
“I like RiRi,” said LaChapelle earlier this summer. “This is not personal, it’s strictly business. Musicians commonly pay to sample music or use someone’s beats and there should be no difference when sampling an artist’s visuals.”
Good for him! Now maybe Rihanna will stop trying to be like Beyonce and actually hire a video director with some talent and creativity for her music videos.
Photos: INFPhoto.com
Rihanna, Behind the Scenes of “We Found Love”
According to our Def Jam source, the music video for Rihanna’s latest single, “We Found Love“, drops this week. That should be exciting news for Rihanna’s Navy. Over the weekend, Rihanna tweeted a behind-the-scenes video for “We Found Love”.
She tweeted:
“We’ve never done a video like this before. This is probably one of the deepest videos I’ve ever done. #WeFoundLove. Its all about love and love being like a drug, you definitely get that from this. #WeFoundLove. The good feeling of love and the dangers of it. That’s what this video is about. #WeFoundLove #UNLOCKED http://on.fb.me/qytYE2
We find it interesting that Rihanna likens love to a drug, especially since we covered addictive personalities and the brain drug Dopamine extensively in our Medical Minutes. Dopamine is responsible for the highs and lows that we feel when we think we’re in love. Read more on Dopamine and addictive personalities here and here.
She also cleared up the rumor that she was back with ex-boyfriend, Matt Kemp, after pics surfaced of the two together in London last weekend. In response to an article in Sister2Sister magazine, Rihanna tweeted: “We’re friends lover. Plz.”
Miranda Brooke – Hater
Rihanna lookalike Miranda Brooke pours out her heart in this music video for her debut single “Hater”. Miranda plays a stylist who catches her photographer boyfriend cheating with a fashion model. Miranda was signed to Def Jam Records by Akon’s brother Bu Thiam. She is a refreshing young talent, who, we’re told, has not an ounce of attitude or drama. That’s why we’re throwing our full support behind her!
Everybody Hates Beyonce
Last night, before hitting the sack, I logged into my Twitter.com account to see what I missed since I don’t live on Twitter. It warmed the cockles of my heart to see more than half of my timeline going IN on Beyonce’s “Countdown” music video, which premiered yesterday.
You can bet that Beyonce saw these tweets last night as well. I once had dinner with an insider who works very closely with Bey. She told me how sensitive Bey was to criticism.
Normally, these followers are Stans of Beyonce who worship the ground that she spits on. But not last night. I was so proud of the youngsters for shunning the narcissistic Bey and her boring, overhyped music videos. Her videos are mostly ripped off from other artists anyway. Finally, the children get it!
Watch the video after the break!
Behind the Scenes: Trina on the set of “Red Bottoms” music video
Trina was spotted on the set of her latest single “Red Bottoms” in South Florida recently. According to a source close to Ttina’s camp, she is ballin’ and making sure that her entire team is stuntin’. I asked “with what money,” since she hasn’t had a hit since the late 1970s. My source also assured me that Trina is 100% natural with no by products or fillers such as silicone or industrial strength caulk.
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