Stocks on Wall Street fell sharply on Thursday afternoon, with the Dow Jones industrials sliding 200 points, as investors weighed a lower sales outlook and a widening trade gap that could spell trouble for American businesses. Here's a random quote from today's news (December 11th): We all know that, since September of this year (2008), the Dow Jones has experienced its biggest drops since the great depression. This reference is pretty eerie as it effectively predicts the crash of the stock markets that is taking place now, which is two years after the release of the song. If it plummets, we can talk about a market crash. The Dow Jones is the main indicator of the health of the stock market. "Coming down with the Dow Jones" reflects this situation. So the "storm" is in fact related to the economy and the financial world. When the clouds come we gone, we RocafellaĪn anticipation, for precipitation. He plays the role of someone that has already been possessed and already "under the umbrella" of the Devil. So the song starts off with a verse of rapper Jay-Z. There is a reason why the album is called "Good Girl Gone Bad". We'll see how the Devil tries and succeeds at possessing Rihanna in this song. Instead, their thoughts are given to them by their possessor. In possession, the human being cannot think for themselves. Possession, in relationship to non-human entities deals with the phenomena wherein a non-human entity controls the human being through various methods. The video of the song makes this very clear and we'll explain how later. So the song is basically a dialog between the Devil and Rihanna. For the purpose of this analysis we'll call this entity the Devil. During the first half of the song, she plays the role of an evil entity that is trying to seduce and possess Rihanna. The first thing that you need to know about the song's lyrics is that Rihanna sings the whole song but she actually takes on two roles. The one that protects basically owns the person that is protected. The song is not about love between woman and man, it's about being protected. When you are under something's protection, this something has more power than you regarding your own security. In this song, "You can stand under my umbrella" can have a sexual connotation but it mostly means "You can be under my protection". In a nutshell, the song talks about a storm that's about to take place and Rihanna offers her loved one protection under her umbrella. The fact is, Umbrella is about a subject matter that is sinister, dark and disturbing: becoming possessed by evil. The vocabulary used in this song is not about a relationship between two lovers. However, if you listen closely to Rihanna and Jay-Z's words, you might notice that the lyrics do not make any sense.
Is it about a woman's unconditional friendship for her man? Is it a "sexy song"? At face value, it seems so. What is Rihanna's Umbrella song about? First times I've heard this song, I was confused. Last month was the wettest June on record with almost 120mm of rain but the Sun hopes its campaign will stop this July from producing similarly depressing statistics.The link to proof: /?p=175 The met office issued alerts for East Anglia and the Highlands in May, while downpours and flash floods devastated Sheffield, Hull and Doncaster as well as Kent and Hampshire in June. Until then, Britain's summer had been looking promising London was one of the warmest capital cities in Europe, with temperatures soaring to 20 degrees.īut just one day after the song hit the shops, the severe weather began to roll in. Rihanna's hit was released in Britain on May 14. The song has been knocked off its top spot this week by T-Pain's Bartender, featuring Akon.Īlthough Hawkes Bay has been battered by storms this week, the weather over the rest of the country appears to have settled. Umbrella was also number one in the New Zealand charts for six weeks from June 4 until July 15.ĭuring that time the country was beseiged by bad weather, with tornadoes in Taranaki, Tauranga and Auckland and flooding in the Far North.
It has compiled a list of alternative downloads which it hopes will reverse the bad weather, amid claims that clubbers partying to the tune may have unwittingly been doing a rain dance.Īmong the suggestions are Summer Breeze by the Isley Brothers and Stevie Wonder's You Are The Sunshine Of My Life. Now the Sun newspaper is urging its readers to stop buying and listening to the single in a bid to reclaim the summer. and for nine weeks, monsoon-like rains have drenched the nation. Rihanna's song Umbrella has been number one there for nine weeks. Forget global warming, British residents are starting to think a chart-topping song may be to blame for the island's recent appalling weather.
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