Rihanna and Chris Brown Battle It Out Via Music Video

Coincidentally, the two stars released their new videos on the same date and we have both of them for you here.

By Megan Masters Nov 14, 2009 5:00 PMTags

With videos like these, it's almost as if Rihanna and Chris Brown were hoping for mass-media scrutiny to follow.

As promised, the two megastars debuted their new music videos on Friday, the first for each since the highly publicized incident last February, and spoiler alert: they're both left wide-open for interpretation.

Rihanna's "Russian Roulette" portrays some seemingly real emotion as the songstress bounces back-and-forth between writhing around a padded cell, and facing off with a rather muscluar man presenting her with a loaded gun.

Representative of her relationship battles with Brown? Likely Perhaps, but far more unstated than her former counterpart's attempt.

You can't deny Brown's ability to bust-a-move in his videos, but "Crawl" just feels like another one of Camp Chris' ploys for public pity. The song is great, but casting R&B singer Cassie—often touted as Rihanna 2.0, with her strong fashion statements and outlandish hair styles—to play Brown's faux famous-ex? Not cool.

Now you decide, who gave fans the best comeback video: Rihanna or Chris Brown?

Poll

"Russian Roulette" or "Crawl"?

Whose new music video got it right?
Rihanna. It's dark and edgy, plus the song is awesome
47.4%
Chris Brown. It seemed genuine, and the song is another hit
52.6%

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