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VIRAL VIDEO: Rihanna's NSFW Revenge Porn Video Generates Buzz; Feminists Fighting Over ‘BBHMM’ Music Video?

Singer Rihanna arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala 2015

(Photo : REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) Singer Rihanna arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala 2015 celebrating the opening of "China: Through the Looking Glass" in Manhattan, New York May 4, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Rihanna just released an extremely graphic music video for her single "Bitch Better Have My Money," and the seven-minute video has feminists fighting over it. The "BBHMM" video is so graphic, that it might qualify as Quentin Tarantino made, with a label for viewer discretion at the beginning, according to The Daily Caller.

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But as fans of Rihanna claim, if anyone is ever going to make a revenge porn music video, then it's going to be Riri.

The "BBHMM" video, which Rihanna directed herself, features human butchery, involving a woman, which is why the video has had mixed reviews from feminists all over.

In the "BBHMM" music video, a wealthy accountant owes the 27-year-old singer some money, which is why she kidnaps his wife, who happens to be white.

By the end of the video, Rihanna is showed getting her cash, a pile of cash, where she lies on top of while smoking a cigarette.

While New Statesman says the "BBHMM" music video is not very feminist since Rihanna tortured the woman, Noisey finds the music video a genius move by the female performer.

Since the music industry has estranged female performers in decades, the website says that Rihanna only manipulated the system with her "BBHMM" music video to work for in her favor. The track, which one would likely call "masculine", has been directed and written by women.

Rihanna recently became the first artist in history to go over the 100 million Gold & Platinum song certification mark.

It isn't uncommon for the artist to be seen in the nude, as she has used nudity time and again for empowerment. In the "BBHMM" music video, it's the first time that Rihanna has portrayed nudity as a vulnerability.

Noisey sees the nude woman hanging upside down in the "BBHMM" music video as a commentary on how "women's bodies are and their social dignity are intertwined." The nude woman reportedly portrays a person striped of her persona in Riri's world.

The way the nude woman was shamed and tortured in the video is the same way that Rihanna has been tortured and shamed in the world of pop music and Hollywood.

In the end of "Bitch Better Have My Money," Rihanna got her power, since money signifies that.


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