Redhead songstress Rihanna's famous raunchy S&M video has been banned in 11 countries, you would think it doesn't get any worse. Prominent US Photographer David LaChapelle is suing Rihanna for the video of her recent single S&M.
LaChapelle has stated that the video imitates the “composition, total concept, feel, tone, mood, theme, colours, props, settings, decors, wardrobe and lighting” of his work. The photographer also said that Rihanna had appropriated eight of his images into the video, such as a shot where she is shown in profile against a blue background with a piece of candy on her tongue.
Fans of LaChapelle were shocked to see the content of Rihanna's video as it showed quite a lot images and scenes were similar to the prominent photographer's works. They flooded his fan pages on Facebook and Twitter with curiousity. A source from his studio told the website Radar Online that fans initially thought LaChapell had directed Rihanna's video. 'Interns told us that fans were buzzing about the video and wanting to know if David had directed it' the source said 'Then the phone in the office started ringing off the hook, everyone was like "wow it's amazing-it's the exact same."
Here are some other remarkably similar images that were copied into Rihanna's video.
The video was directed by Melina Matsoukas who also directed the video for Rude Boy. Perez criticised the similarities and tweeted, ''The next time you make a David LaChapelle music video you should probably hire David LaChapelle.'
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