Rihanna recently released a video for her song "Pour It Up", and it has drawn a firestorm of criticism from fans and media watchgroups.  

Rihanna's video for "Pour it Up" features footage of Rihanna dancing in very skimpy attire.  In some shots, she has dollars stuck into her costume, visually recalling the tradition of putting dollar bills into a stripper's costume.  

It's no surprise that Rihanna's "Pour it Up" video is explicit, given Rihanna's established penchant for revealing costumes and sexy dancing.  Additionally, the lyrics for "Pour It Up" very much reflect the imagery she chose to use in the video; the song includes lines such as "Strip clubs and dollar bills/I still got my money".

As a result of the highly explicit content of Rihanna's "Pour It Up" video, many are expressing outrage.  Dr. Helen Wright, former president of the Girls' School Association, talked to the Daily Mail about Rihanna's video for "Pour it Up": "No matter how much people may talk about its artistic merit, it nonetheless objectifies and therefore demeans women by casting them in the mold of whore."

"Teenagers are impressionable; this video feeds them the same old ugly story of female enslavement, not emancipation or equality."

"Parents should object and do their best to prevent their children from seeing it; even better would be for Rihanna herself to recognize the responsibility she has as a public figure to promote positive and healthy images of women, and to stop selling out, under cover of 'art', to commercial interests which demean women."

Miranda Suit of Safermedia said that Rihanna's video for "Pour It Up" was full of "crude, tasteless and explicit dancing, combined with the money-focused lyrics, are telling all her fans -  many of them still children - that it is good for women and girls to sell their body, and right for men and boys to see women purely as a sexual commodity."

"Rihanna has sold out completely to the commercialization and objectification of women's bodies and their sexuality. And now she's promoting it to girls and boys."

"Parents want to know that their  children are going to be safe online."

"It is particularly hard for parents to counteract as Rihanna is so much part of mainstream youth culture  and fashion."

Do you think that Rihanna's video for "Pour It Up" is "crude" and "tasteless"?  Let us know?
Watch Rihanna in her video for Pour It Up Here: