Rihanna Is Wondering "Where Have You Been"

Giving her fans a week-beginning treat, Rihanna gets wet, dances in the desert and goes downright tribal in her dark and flashy new video for "Where Have You Been," off the singer's latest LP "Talk That Talk." The "We Found Love" songstress' new clip serves as a kind of photo shoot for a tribal-print-themed spread in a fashion magazine with chock full of cool choreography, jungle-style clothing, and plenty of Rihanna writhing around in a rock-filled desert landscape with male tribal dancers in front of a fire.
This clubby tune combines the talents of Ester Dean along with hitmaker Dr. Luke and Calvin Harris, the Scottish DJ behind "We Found Love." The song finds Rihanna asking the question that's on her mind - how to "find someone to love [her] all night long." The song borrows elements from Australian songwriter Geoff Mack's 1959 composition "I've Been Everywhere," which three years later became a Country hit for Hank Snow with revised Americanised lyrics.
"Where Have You Been" is a house and up-tempo dance-pop number that draws influence from R&B and hip hop. It features hard, chilly synths and a punk inspired breakdown sequence, and will almost certainly be Rihanna's biggest club smash since "Don't Stop The Music." The 24-year-old pop star continues her trek throughout the world, looking for that special guy, who seems to slip through her fingers at every turn.
The Dave Meyers-directed pulsating clip starts with a dripping wet Rihanna emerging from a mucky river, scantily clad and as lonely-looking as hinted at in the track's lyrics. "Where have you been all my life?" she sings while performing more intense choreography than fans of the singer might be used to. She shimmies and shakes in an exotic desert-like setting, wondering where her one true love might be hiding to the song's bumping beat, and it turns psychedelic as it nears its end and a kaleidoscope effect is filtered over the clip, with glitter-sprinkled Rihanna looks as if she still might have to live her life all by her lonesome with her siren call being blasted into the wilds of the world.