dudley o'shaughnessy was the boy in rihanna's we found love video.
dudley o'shaughnessy was the boy in rihanna's we found love video.
who is the boy in rihanna's we found love video?
dudley o'shaughnessy
after the release of the video, critics commented on the resemblance between rihanna's ex-boyfriend chris brown and her fictional love interest in the video, dudley o'shaughnessy, and how the video's content appeared to be somewhat of a reenactment of the assault upon rihanna by brown on the evening of the 2009 grammy awards. chris doplan of consequence of sound said that o'shaughnessy strongly resembled brown in his appearance. amanda dobbins of "new york" magazine concurred with doplan, and wrote that o'shaughnessy has short blond hair like brown once had. erika ramirez of "billboard" magazine also thought that o'shaughnessy's character is a depiction of brown, especially in relation to the scene which features the couple in a car, with o'shaughnessy driving recklessly and rihanna begging him to stop. william goodman of "spin" provided an analysis of the video with regard to the brown comparisons. like many reviewers, he noted the resemblance between brown and o'shaughnessy, writing "the clip stars a dead ringer for brown, complete with dyed hair and bulging biceps". goodman commented upon the video's opening narration, which was actually voiced by agyness deyn, "the video opens with a rihanna voice-over that warns, 'you almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important. no one will ever understand how much it hurts ... you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back, so that you have the good." in conclusion, goodman commented that the scene showing an altercation in a car is reminiscent of brown's assault on rihanna, which occurred inside a car. goodman wrote: "during a heated argument between the couple in a muscle car, the brown look-alike gives the barbadian beauty a slap on the face. convinced yet?"
we found love (music video)
elements of the music video for "we found love" have been compared to the works of britney spears, eminem and madonna. the scene in which rihanna and o'shaughnessy blow marijuana exhalations into each other's mouths is stylistically reminiscent of the cover artwork on english musician tricky's 2001 album "blowback". rihanna's video was compared to the video for spears' song "everytime" (2004). critics noted that rihanna lay in a bathtub and submerged her head under the water, which can be interpreted as a suicide attempt. in "everytime", spears is shown as a successful singer constantly bothered by the media and paparazzi about her turbulent relationship with her boyfriend. in "everytime"s video, spears drowns in a bathtub as a result of a concussion. rihanna's video also bears resemblances to that for eminem and rihanna's "love the way you lie" (2010); both contain lyrical and visual content about a doomed relationship and scenes of graphic violence and substance abuse. like "we found love", "love the way you lie" displays scenes of a couple in various stages of undress and intimacy. "we found love"s video includes stylistic references to madonna's video for "ray of light" (1998). james montgomery of mtv news noted that "ray of light"s video features "a whole lot of high-speed, time-lapse shots taken in cities around the world", the same technique used for the drug scenes in "we found love".
we found love (music video)