OK, that’s not exactly right, but Rihanna enlisted Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine for the video for “Needed Me,” and that’s close enough for me. “Needed Me” is full of guns and motorcycles and general ridiculousness and indulgence—it’s a violent NSFW revenge fantasy that is simultaneously exactly what you’d expect from Korine and Rihanna and more than the sum of its parts. “Didn’t they tell you that I was a savage / Fuck your white horse and carriage,” Rihanna sings. Spring break forever.
Alex Shephard is senior editor of The New Republic, where he has covered politics and culture since 2015. His work has also appeared in New York, GQ, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other publications.
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