Rihanna – Rockstar 101 (Music Video Review)
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The term “Rockstar” is thrown around as a lifestyle description in many cases and is not just attached to those celebrities who have built their fame with their ability to play rock music. There are also “Pseudo Rockstars,” who are known for their partying more than their talent.
Every once in awhile you have talented musicians who portray the lives of a true Rockstars by being both musically successful as well as dabbling in drug usage or a groupie orgy (see Tommy Lee, Keith Richards and David Lee Roth).
In Rihanna’s newest video for “Rockstar 101,” featuring Slash — one of the definitive Rockstars — the singer belts that she lives the life of a Rockstar.
“I’m a Rockstar
Hey baby I’m a Rockstar
Hey baby
Big City
Bright lights
Sleep all day
Up all night.”
But is this the definition of a “Rockstar”? Is Rihanna, a very successful pop singer, a true Rockstar?
“Six inch walker
Big shit talker
I never play the victim
I’d rather be a stalker
So baby take me in
I’ll disobey the law
Make sure you frisk me good
Check my panties and my bra
Wild’n out
A crazy house
With my white jacket on
Won’t you come
And sign me out
To be what you is
You gotta be what you are
The only thing I’m missing
Is a black guitar.”
Visually, Rihanna plays the part of a Rockstar perfectly in the video, which is stylistic shot in bright black and white. The singer wears leather, rocks the microphone and rolls around on the ground — and in doing so creates the sexiest lead rock singer of all time.
Then, to lend validity to Rihanna’s claims, in walks Slash to perform a blistering solo. Wait. That looks like Slash, but Slash usually doesn’t wear tight mesh leggings and he usually doesn’t grind up and down on his guitar. That’s not Slash at all. No way. That’s Rihanna.
Rihanna/Slash finishes the song and video strong proving that “Rockstar” may in fact be more of state of being than a description of talent. Never before would Rihanna be considered a “Rockstar,” but that was before we took her “Rockstar 101” class.
Music video by Rihanna performing ROCKSTAR 101. (C) 2010 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Posted on 06/5/10
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