AM I SCARING YOU NOW?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes, Rihanna, yes you really are.

This video has gone a long way to turning me round on 'Disturbia' (from "this is OK" to "this might be really really great but holy shit her EYES")...

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This Grace Jones thing is catching!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also it still sounds way too much like Eiffel 65 for my liking.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The bit in the 'Umbrella' video where she's naked and silver really reminded me of Grace J - glad that Rihanna has confirmed that it wasn't just my tenuous imagination.

I know what you mean about the song, there's something a bit TOO cheesy about the melody and autotune combination, even if it is super-catchy, but the video is WHOA.

[koganbot]

But the melodic sweetness plus electronic sugar glaze is exactly what helps deliver the song, since it's what makes the eeriness extra eerie ('cause it's sugar being eerie, not just the words); this is one of the songs of the year. (If it had been released last year would have landed somewhere between #8 and #15 on my singles list; right now is in my top four but we've still got five months of new material plus whatever I've missed.)