Rihanna’s fifth single “Man Down,” off of her fifth studio album Loud, shows that while the Barbados-born singer may have moved off the island, she hasn’t lost touch with her Caribbean roots. The video was shot in Jamaica and co-stars Jamaican-born model Oraine Barrett.
“I’ve always wanted to do a video here, ‘Man Down’ is just the song,” Rihanna said in atwitvid that gave a behind-the-scenes look at the video. “It has to be authentic. You can’t get any realer than Jamaica.”
And real it got, as Rihanna shoots Barrett down after he forces himself on her after an intimate encounter at a dancehall party. Scenes of the starlet peddling down dirt roads on a bike, kissing locals in the street and drinking from a freshly sliced coconut gave it that extra touch of authenticity that took us back to the Rihanna we met way back in 2005. It was like a princess returning to her kingdom.
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