Just a day after Rihanna performed her emotional new single, "Stay," at Sunday's Grammy Awards, the singing siren has debuted her appropriately minimalist clip for the song, features guest vocals by Nashville-based singer Mikky Ekko, as the second single off her 2012 album, "Unapologetic," and its accompanying video have to be one huge love letter to the 24-year-old Bajan balladeer's now-reunited ex-boyfriend Chris Brown!
Rihanna is stripping it all off for "Stay." By stripping down, we mean both emotionally and literally. "The video was really, really simple. I pretty much stayed put in a bathtub, and we shot it really tight, really clos," she told Ryan Seacrest on the Grammys red carpet. And she wasn't lying. The moody clip features the bathing pop star completely naked while dueting with Ekko. Rihanna promised us a very emotional, personal, "powerful and authentic video and we certainly think she delivered.
This emotive ballad about a relationship is a contemporary pop and R&B ballad that consists of piano and guitar instrumentation. The lyrical content regards the temptation and failure of resisting a true love. Rihanna performs it within an inch of its life and her vocals glow over the simple yet effective piano riffs, and punctuates the emotions of the track and makes a plea to her lover. The song puts a vulnerable spin on the Brown situation, repeating another theme of the album, a reference to her relationship with Chris Brown.
Directed by Sophie Muller, the bleak allure video itself goes unapologetically quite simple. The solemn, simple visual with organic vibe perfectly matching the poignant ballad, showing the Grammy winner strip down and soaks in a bathtub in a barely lighted room, where she spends the entire gloomy clip. The stripping is not only literal but figurative as well, as tight shots show an emotional Rihanna with lips quivering and eyes welling up with tears, sings: "I want you to stay."
Rihanna is stripping it all off for "Stay." By stripping down, we mean both emotionally and literally. "The video was really, really simple. I pretty much stayed put in a bathtub, and we shot it really tight, really clos," she told Ryan Seacrest on the Grammys red carpet. And she wasn't lying. The moody clip features the bathing pop star completely naked while dueting with Ekko. Rihanna promised us a very emotional, personal, "powerful and authentic video and we certainly think she delivered.
This emotive ballad about a relationship is a contemporary pop and R&B ballad that consists of piano and guitar instrumentation. The lyrical content regards the temptation and failure of resisting a true love. Rihanna performs it within an inch of its life and her vocals glow over the simple yet effective piano riffs, and punctuates the emotions of the track and makes a plea to her lover. The song puts a vulnerable spin on the Brown situation, repeating another theme of the album, a reference to her relationship with Chris Brown.
Directed by Sophie Muller, the bleak allure video itself goes unapologetically quite simple. The solemn, simple visual with organic vibe perfectly matching the poignant ballad, showing the Grammy winner strip down and soaks in a bathtub in a barely lighted room, where she spends the entire gloomy clip. The stripping is not only literal but figurative as well, as tight shots show an emotional Rihanna with lips quivering and eyes welling up with tears, sings: "I want you to stay."
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