Sledgehammer is a deeply spiritual offering, and evokes the same levitation 'arts' that some suspect explain the transportation from distant and still unknown quarries of huge building blocks of stone the kind which became Egypt's grand pyramids. The seeming desolation of the terrain in which we find Rihanna, and her facial makeup, speak to this awesomeness and this spectacular theme.
What she wears, and her body language, blend without a seam into a desert place, and accentuate the image of an African phenom with cosmic powers, in a parallel universe.
The inexplicable expanse of the cosmos seems somehow within the reach of her powers and, through her, our grasp as well. She is one with it, indeed, and so are we. She seems stranded in a volcanic fossil, for now. Pity, though, that her words (the lyrics) emit less power than the language (the demeanor) of her seemingly indestructible body in the music video.
But the swarm of birds that soon enough begin to fly past her with full intent, at jet speed, seem responsive to secret powers and hidden machinations that only she can possibly muster in these desolate and easily unforgiving parts at the very margin of chaos.
And she waits for something, it seems, or someone -- no one knows what, or whom. A thing! We can't wait to see.
NOTE: More, or less, on this unfinished post should Time allow.
READ: Rihanna, a 'Mystical Being'
READ: More on Rihanna's Sledgemammer
READ: Sledgehammer Lyrics
