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Bitch Better Have My Money

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Barbadian singer and songwriter, Rihanna, song titled “Bitch Better Have My Money” was released in the year 2015. The popular song had previously landed as number four in Pitchfork’s, “Best of 2015” list. Just as the title of the music video proposes, the main concept is, “Bitch Better Have My Money”; a concept in which Rihanna is indicating how someone owes her money and needs to pay it forward. This is not the only notion an individual could get from the song lyrics. The song could be referring to demanding respect from someone, gaining ethnic dominance, instigation to violence, or even females being used as objects. Set in a secluded area that includes vehicles driven only by Rihanna herself, a motel room, the “Bitch” living room, a gas station–just to name a few, “Bitch Better Have My Money” tells a sequenced story about how an accountant owes her money and does not pay up his dues when needed. The strong theme of the song is pay up what you owe or there will be consequences involved. Music directors, Megaforce and the star Rihanna herself demonstrated several of angles, vibrant colors, and even slow pans to make the video as popular as it is now.
At the beginning of the video, we first see an unidentified individual sitting in a box. I have used the word unidentified because only a pair of legs are shown and it does not give enough information in the beginning yet for us to know who is it. The pair of legs also appear to have spots of red on them¬-assumingly being

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