As if there weren’t enough pre-teens in the music scene, the new track from Willow Smith was leaked last week. Willow Smith? Yea that’s the daughter of Will Smith - as if that family wasn’t talented enough already. Anyway, “Whip my Hair” has caused “controversy” in the interwebs, because Rih Rih had an unreleased track named “Whipping my Hair”. And now the internet wants justice. Not only for the song name BUT because Willow has the same hair cut as Rihanna. God forbid a 9 year old has the same hair cut as someone she probably wants to grow up to be like (minus the whole Chris Brown thing…). Proving yet again that the internet is full of crazy people.
Rihanna releases video for “Rude Boy.” I think NYMag hits on the head with this summary:
It’s like Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and M.C. Hammer visited the Caribbean in the seventies and made a music video about it… in the nineties.
Yeah!
Miss Info calls Rihanna out for copying M.I.A.’s “Boyz” video. You be the judge, but I think RiRi extends the aesthetic nicely.
The floating, comic-book lips are especially surreal-sexual (the wall of them probably bringing the Warhol namedrop). Not sure what I think about the blunt lyrics, but they certainly highlight those gyratin’ hips.
Latest video from the coolest motherfucker in the world right now. Flaming basketballs/die, whipping cables, a bleeding hammer, milk and walls of sticky notes.
