“Love the Way You Lie” gives an unabashed look at domestic violence, right or wrong, it’s out there and getting people talking. All the attention is certainly opening up conversations about abuse and what domestic violence looks like from the inside and what each person goes through. While I still don’t know what to think about Rihanna’s lyrics, I liked how the video illustrated what the cycle of abuse can look like.Īs with almost anything that Rihanna or Eminem do, the song and its video are getting lots of attention and maybe that’s good enough. He pretty much just broke down the cycle of domestic violence and it’s something that a lot people don’t have a lot of insight on, so this song is a really, really powerful song and it touches a lot of people.”Īs for me I would have to agree with Rihanna as well as a writer for BUST Magazine, that the video shows the relationship for what it is. “It was believable for us to do a record like that, but it was also something that needed to be done and the way he did it was so clever. Verse Am F On the first page of our story C G The future seemed so bright Am F Then this thing turned out so evil C G I don’t know why i’m still surprised Am F Even angels have their wicked schemes C G And you take that to new extremes Am F But you’ll always be my. I have seen other articles that think because you have all these pretty people being shot beautifully that it is “glamorizing” domestic violence.Īs for her part, Rihanna was quoted on Access Hollywood saying: Just gonna stand there and watch me burn Well thats alright because I like the way it hurts Just gonna stand there. There is no strumming pattern for this song yet. I have read some blogs that say this is obviously Eminem and Rihanna’s way of saying that these relationships are bad and should end sooner. Throughout the video you see Eminem in a peaceful field of grass rapping about how he “didn’t mean it” but would do it again and Rihanna in front of a burning house singing about how she “likes the way it hurts” and “loves the way you lie.” Other articles where Love the Way You Lie is discussed: Eminem: singles Not Afraid and Love the Way You Lie (featuring the singer Rihanna) both became. The rest of the video is much the same with the couple going through what looks like cycles of abuse: in one frame he is hitting her and throwing her around and in the next he is apologizing with a stuffed bear and everything is good again. One minute they are fighting and she is leaving, while he tries to stop her by being violent, and in the next moment they are engaged in some intense tonsil hockey.

The video follows the couple’s tumultuous relationship cycle.

Megan Fox stars in the video alongside Dominic Monaghan (Fox donated her fee to an abuse shelter).

Love the way you lie