By Kia Miakka Natisse
Rihanna the "Rebel Fleur" strikes again. Pop music's troubled wild child is exacting violent revenge in the new video for her single "Man Down."
The springy playful beat of the song dramatically contrasts with the lyrics -- Rihanna has ruined some man's life, shooting him down, figuratively in the song (we hope), but literally in the video, as the five minute storyline opens with Rihanna creeping out of darkness to shoot a man in the back. Whoa.
It's a disturbing video that proceeds to a flash back to a day earlier, with Rihanna playing a happy island girl who meets a handsome man at the club. Shortly thereafter this man follows her outside to physically and sexually assault her. The last scene shows a beaten and abused Rihanna going to a dresser drawer, from which she retrieves a gun. CONTINUE....
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