#BITCH BETTER HAVE MYMONEY SKIN#

Rihanna already has the (clothed) male victim, to make her unwieldy plot work, but still the (unclothed) female is added – obviously to increase the sex quotient. Not only is reversing gender roles very pat and tired, BBHMM doesn’t even follow through properly. Moreover, just because, in Rihanna’s musical sphere and beyond, there are misogynistic male artists, this doesn’t automatically give her the same “privileges”. I always felt that sometime Rihanna collaborator Eminem’s material featuring murdered women (Bonnie & Clyde Kim) worked as urban cartoons, within which he made valid points about the fragile nature of uncontrolled male rage.īy contrast, BBHMM’s plot (I’m angry with an accountant so I’m gonna kill his chick) has no nuance no artistry. It’s even difficult to excuse it on the grounds of artistic expression, given how crude is the video. The main issue here is surely: misogyny, who’s allowed to do it? And the only answer can be: nobody.

#BITCH BETTER HAVE MYMONEY SKIN#

Perhaps more than Rihanna knows herself, because the BBHMM video also serves as a study in celebrity delusion: take away the skin colour and the “white spoilt bitch” has far more in common with real Rihanna than the gangsta Rihanna she’s portraying, whatever she likes to think of the state of her street cred.

We were all a little unsure before – but now we know.

Thanks for co-directing that, Rihanna, and for demonstrating how female-on-female torture and murder are just as “SEXY!” as the male-on-female versions.

Bitch better have mymoney