dudley o'shaughnessy was the guy in we found love in a hopeless place video.
dudley o'shaughnessy was the guy in we found love in a hopeless place video.
who is the guy in we found love in a hopeless place video?
dudley o'shaughnessy
extras for the shoot were not told what was expected of them until the last minute, in order to keep the content of the video as secret as possible. regarding the video's content, rihanna posted a message on twitter that read: "i really can't stop thinking about this video we just shot! easily the best video i've done thus far!" rihanna elaborated on the concept of the video: "we've never done a video like this before. this is probably one of the deepest videos i've ever done ... it's all about love and love being like a drug, you definitely get that from this." the male love interest in the video is dudley o'shaughnessy, a model and former boxer. upon the release of the video, matsoukas explained the content of the video in an interview with mtv:
we found love (music video)
priya elan of "nme" commented, "by now it's pretty customary to have a jaw-on-the-floor reaction to the first single from a rihanna album. 'pon de replay', 'sos', 'umbrella', 'russian roulette', 'only girl in the world'." despite complimenting rihanna for sounding extremely relaxed and calling her vocal as "luxurious calling to mind the atmosphere", elan concluded that the over-all effect is underwhelming. she continued by writing that instead of re-inventing the pop wheel, "we found love" has "a whiff of treading-water about it" and that "if there is a 'goosebump' moment to be had it comes after many multiple plays and, dare we say it, a glass of something strong." awarding "we found love" two stars out of five, jody rosen of "rolling stone" was critical, writing that it "is much ado about very little indeed" and that is "an insipid tune". he concluded that rihanna repeats 'we found love in a hopeless place' "approximately 350 times, hoping it will start to mean something. it's the worst single of rihanna’s career. it will probably top the hot 100 anyway." leah collins of "the vancouver sun" initially praised rihanna's vocal performance in the song, writing that she "smoothes out her vocals", before adding, "angelic as she sounds, though, [her] performance – which is mostly just her repeating the line 'we found love in a hopeless place' – seems to take second place to harris' repetitive synth-based blare." similarly, amos barshad of grantland criticized the singer's vocal performance, calling it "a complete afterthought" before concluding, "people who regularly attend the electric zoo festival: rihanna wants your money!"
we found love