Eminem’s New Music Blows Up Online
Eminem Featuring Rihanna "Love The Way You Lie" Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records
Eminem finally released the video for his current hit single, “Love The Way You Lie” featuring Rihanna at the end of last week It had its world premiere on the various MTV music cable channels (MTV Hits MTV Jams). It is also MTV Jams’ “Jam Of The Week this week.. The video went on to become an online phenomenon on Eminem’s Vevo channel, it was viewed over 6 million times in the first 24 hours of its online release. (More than some cable TV shows) The vide was dorected by Joseph Kahn who worked with Eminem on the video for his hit single, “Without Me.” Kahn casted Megan Fox, (best known for her roles in the Transformers movie series drom DreamWorks) and Dominic Monaghan, (best kmon for his role as Meriadoc Brandybuck in the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy) to play a couple involved in an abusive relationship as Eminem and Rihanna perform in a field and in front of a burning house.
Towards the end of the video both Dominic and Megan, as well as Eminem in some shots are shown burning up in computer generated flames while Rihanna remains standing in front of a burning house. This is a visual reference to Rihanna’s part in the song which starts with, “Just gonna stand there and watch me burn” This visual as well as Rihanna’s involvement in the song may have a double meaning. This is because both her and Eminem have been in very public disfunctional relationships. It means that much more to have Rihanna serve as the female singing those powerful lyrics about love and pain, considering how she was very badly beaten by her ex, singer, Chris Brown.. This may also be why when discussing the songs creation with MTV Em admited to having Rihanna in mind as a guest performer on it the whole time.
“[The song] I did with Rihanna is one of those tracks that I felt like only she could pull it off, only she could do it.”
Check out the video for this explosive If you haven’t already seen it
Eminem Featuring Rihanna
“Love The Way You Lie”
From Recovery
Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records
