Vanilla Sky Covers Rihanna’s UMBRELLA

I recently stumbled across a fairly hilarious cover of Rihanna’s “Umbrella”. Not only is it a cover of her song, but it’s also a cover (or perhaps parody) of her music video. It’s by a group of dudes from Rome. They’re called Vanilla Sky and after this video, I might just check out their other work. Maybe they’ve done a Britney cover?

What’s so awesome about this is how they so blatantly used every set-up that Rihanna used in the original video. From rapid focus pulls to orange-white hard gradients across the screen, they’ve done it all. Slap in the face to Top 40 formulaic videos.

On their Myspace, Vanilla Sky says they’re “way hotter than Rihanna”. I love it.

Here’s the original “Umbrella” video in case you missed it:

Looking at them both, it kind of reminds me of MTV’s Making the Video. Man do I miss that show! Haha.

~ by visualaffection on March 4, 2008.