Rihanna - B*tch Better Have My Money
This music video is 7 minutes long and is a revenge fantasy for celebrity Rihanna who claims that her accountant Peter Gounis gave her unsound advice that lost her over £9,000,000. The plot depicts that an accountant has defrauded the singer out of money so in retaliation she kidnaps his wife, a wealthy white woman. With two friends she puts her into a trunk and strips her naked before swinging her upside down from a rope, knocking her out with a bottle and then almost drowning her in a swimming pool. When that doesn’t get her the money, Rihanna finds the accountant and straps him to a chair before killing him. The video finishes by showing Rihanna covered in blood and naked in a trunk of money.
This controversial video has sparked a ginormous debate between those who found it extremely offensive and "not safe for feminists" as it "glamorizes kidnapping and sexual humiliation". And those who found it brilliant and congratulated Rihanna on her attempts to fight equality and cast herself, a female as "the gangster boss" that you would usually find men playing.
However in addition to this, a racial dispute has commenced over Twitter as the black characters are portrayed as the most dominant and in control of the white people's fate by openly torturing and murdering them in order to get what they want, in this case money. People argue that the white characters are depicted as "vulnerable and weak" by Rihanna and are therefore outraged by her "display of racism".
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