Rihanna unveiled the new music video for her single "We Found Love" Thursday. (Watch it below.) The "gritty" Trainspotting-inspired clip races through the dramatic ups and downs of a tumultuous romance, and features so much suggestive behavior that it makes Britney Spears' eyebrow-raising "Criminal" video "look like afternoon tea with Nan and Grandpa." The video, being praised as the singer's best to date, finds Rihanna and a love interest snorting drugs, chain-smoking, and engaging in lots of squirm-inducing heavy petting. What's obsessing commentators, however, is a possible allusion to the singer's relationship with Chris Brown, which notoriously ended in 2009 after Brown assaulted Rihanna in a car en route to the Grammy Awards. Is "We Found Love" autobiographical?
It's pretty unmistakable: This video is definitely about Chris Brown, says William Goodman at Spin. The video's love interest, with his dyed-blonde hair and bulging biceps, is "a dead ringer" for Rihanna's ex. And when you factor in the video's voice-over — "No one will ever understand how much it hurts" — with an argument scene in the back of a car, during which "the Brown look-alike gives the Barbadian beauty a slap on the face," it couldn't be more convincing that "We Found Love" is about Rihanna's former relationship.
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