Trigger
The Saturday (12/14/2013) edition of Wall Street Journal interviewed (Subscription required) a principal ballet dancer (Ms. Maria Kowroski) of the New York City Ballet about a favorite song.
Ms. Kowroski mentioned in the interview that she just had to go through some hard times before she was touched by this song: “A lot of tough things in my life had piled up by 2011. … lost my mom … gone through a series of bad break ups.”
Ms. Kowroski mentioned in the interview that she just had to go through some hard times before she was touched by this song: “A lot of tough things in my life had piled up by 2011. … lost my mom … gone through a series of bad break ups.”
The ballet dancer named Rihanna’s We Found Love (in a hopeless place). The accompanying video is here. This song was released in September 2011 and immediately became one of her most successful songs. The music video won awards.
Music And Imagery
Curious as I can be, I looked up this song on the Internet since I never really heard any music by Rihanna before. What is it about this song?
Personally, I am quite familiar with the R&B (soul and funk) music of the 1970s and 1980s. But trying to keep up with current music has faded for many years.
I heard about Rihanna’s domestic violence situation.
The video is quite disturbing not for suggestive sex scenes, but for drug addiction and violence and in total contrast to the title of the song.
The voice of Rihanna is certainly no match for the great female singers of R&B of the 1970-1980s like e.g. Whitney Houston or Roberta Flack or Chaka Khan or Aretha Franklin and others whose name I cannot remember at this moment.
A Well Crafted Product
If it is not the music, then Rihanna is perhaps a well managed, marketed and designed product.
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