Since (as the commentators cited earlier have clearly shown) the umbrella is used as a “multi-faceted metaphor” representing at one and the same time the male sex organ (phallus) and her skirt under which is the female sex organ, could it be that the triangle/pyramid also has a symbolic sexual meaning? When we search the occult literature the answer is yes. From the way Rihanna’s short skirt mimics the look of an open umbrella to the suggestive way she places a closed one between her legs, the artist presents her femininity as a sensual and protective attraction.” 5 The Triangle/Pyramid as a Phallic SymbolĪs mentioned earlier, during Rihanna’s “Umbrella” music video she poses provocatively in the nude, covered with nothing but body paint, in a huge triangle/pyramid. But long before that blatant moment of female sexuality director Chris Applebaum establishes “Umbrella” as a multi-faceted metaphor. The music video and pop culture blog, Obtusity, observes: “At about 2 minutes and 30 seconds into this glossy new video, a nearly-nude Rihanna poses provocatively inside a huge triangle. While she dances around the umbrella in between her legs, she taunts and chants to the video watcher by saying ‘Baby come into me’ repetitively…” 4 There are many parts of the video in which she dances around the umbrella as if the umbrella was some phallic sculpture to be worshiped. The snapshot is one of the most sexually submissive posses she performs in the video. a “good girl gone bad” - that’s the name of her entire album, by the way. It is the sexual fantasy all men are wanting. In reviewing the music video of “Umbrella”, the feminist website “Femtique: feminist critique of pop media” has observed: “For the rest of the music video, Rihanna subjects herself to utter objectification. That desire of hers to do something sexy has been accomplished in the music video in no uncertain terms. Musically, lyrically and even visually” and assured him that she was prepared to do something “sexy” in the “Umbrella” music video.
Rihanna herself told her music video director Chris Applebaum that she was prepared to “Take more chances.
On top of that, the music video is also punctuated with occult imagery. Rihanna’s highly acclaimed, Grammy Award winning single “Umbrella”, from her Good Girl Gone Bad album, is no exception. The sex in your face philosophy, delineated above by Andrew Oldham, still prevails in much of today’s pop music culture. “Pop music is sex and you have to hit them in the face with it” 2Īndrew Oldham, manager of the Rolling Stones “If music is used outside of God’s intent, i.e., to promote sex, violence and the occult, it can tear down the very fabric of a society.” 1
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