@38,i agree……..but the fact still remains this video had me going,”oooh that reminds me of ______” in just about every scene..sucks because i love Keri Hilson,i think she should do a video to her and Tank’s song…..

we have a rihanna already,,,

I WASN’T GONE TYPE NOTHIN, BUT SHE BIT WAAAAAAAAY TOO HARD OFF AALIYAH’S “WE NEED A RESOLUTION” VIDEO. THE PART WHERE AALIYAH’S LAYING DOWN ON TOP OF THAT SEE-THROUGH GLASS, KERI WENT AND RE-DID THAT EXACT SCENE!!!

Well, I must say that I am disappointed in Miss Hilson because of all the options that she had on this upcoming album she had to pick this song… I LOVE Keri, she’s a triple threat.. I dont like the image that they’re trying to make her become (it’s not her it’s the label)….. But, Yall only criticizing her because she’s a new artist.. Had it been Beyonce, Rihanna, or someone else already in the industry, yall would have given them props (Hell, they could do anything stupid and you’ll would like it)… Her video “ENERGY” wasn’t bad at all and it didn’t get this much criticism, now did it?? KERI REPPIN’ THAT ATL KEEP DOING YA THING, NO MATTER WHAT YOU HAVE MY VOTE ON ANYTHING YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!!

love the tune, yeh, it looks like a lot of other vids but its aesthetically pleasing so w/eva. I prefer this to Energy anyhoo.

very nice…better than energy!

go keri!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

soooo BITTIN RHIANNA STYLE!!!!

please people stop hating!
this is the best video that i’ve seen from keri (i mean with all those feats she dis before, and will do..)
so if keri cuts her hair, then she’s copying rihanna? so nobody else can cut the hair like her?? what stupid sentence.. oh god.
and stealing ideas from nicoles wchwyeywewe y ciara.. i think that that could be the director, not keri herself.

i loved this video, it was all that i expected from her.. now it’s up to the big audience.
and i dfon’t think she’s selling sex, she’s selling future… i just remember TLC’s no scrubs, they were freaky dressed and in a set quite similar to this.. and i had the same feeling.

As soon as the video played for the first minute, it screamed CIARA! Girl, BOO!

Next!

Hmmm yes….. i have to sa the video is very Rihanna..ish but the song wasn’t too bad.

um. sum blame should be put on the director. even though keri should have said something. this was the DIRECTORS doing. i mean all of beyonces wack videos…shes to blame.

I agree @ 75. But I’m going to take it a little bit further.

Not only is the video wack and saturated with sex, but what is the main message of the song? “Boy you got what it takes to turn me out.” “Might even take it all the way with you.” “I’m gonna be on my worst behavior.”

Timbaland: “So give it up girl, I’m a busy man. What you stalling for?”

Keri: “I’ll give you unlimited access, tell me what’s your flavor?”

I mean COME ON. This song is distasteful and disheartening. Everyone is pumping her up as this brilliant songwriter and yet here she is singing garbage. Commerical music is going down the drain. There is so much more to life than just sex. We go through so much more in life than just SEX and LOOKING GOOD. When will the music GROW UP?

umm this is a little better, I like the video it has a 90’s vibe (might be why so many thinks she is biting) over all its ok, its something about this song that is missing idk, vocally its ok, but doesn’t feel right on a R&B singer should have been for a pop artist,and she gives it a generic quality at the end with the ad libs, everybody knows you don’t do typical ghetto runs on a “POP” song ask Mary J it never translates into a hit. I can see her handlers are pushing her to go more rihanna.

Another thing…Why is most of the songs Keri writes so sexual???

Overall I like Keri, and I am not hating, but with the caliber of production talent that has been linked to this project and the money that has been thrown at it, You would expect better ideas, and more creativity…why is it that Shantell who sounds alot like Keri Hilson (IMO) song “T-shirt” is doing extreme well. Without all the hype and the money and “big names” It goes to show you can have every avenue and every resource and still fall flat…..Terri Mari, Nicole schzenger, Usher, Mario, Mya Etc.

I agree with pretty much everything said so far. I was thinking about other people/videos while watching it. Ciara, Beyonce, Rihanna, Aalliyah…not an original video at ALL. The lyrics are pretty bad too, especially since we know Keri is capable of much more. I see another pushback in her future.

omg i cant watch the video @ wrk…..post a link i want to watch it

I’m not really feeling the song, but the video’s not that bad…its futuristic its kind of reminds of Michael and Janet Jackson’s “Scream”… I say good look Keri, you can’t please everyone…and nice hair style! May I add, why is everyone jumping on her for her video, but half the rappers have the same kind of videos, party scene with females walking around and no one says they are copying anyone….talking about double standard!

Wow. How Lame. And that picture with the two microphones looks as if she is licking balls. She just doesnt have the IT factor that Rihanna has…Exotic Fly girls Stand Up.

I Like her but… we can all agree it was very ciara / rhianna up in there!

That’s what I was going to say! For real, She took Rihanna’s mirror effects, Nicole and Beyonce’s Water effects, and Ciara’s latest video, Go Girl but even she took that from Janet’s Feedback video! Are the directors running out of material? WTF?! I’m starting to hate watching videos because they’re all effing the same! Where is the creatvity at? At everyone’s music sounds the same too! This year is full of crap! The only one doing something different is Rihanna!

Oh she even has rihanna’s bra on lol and the water on the floor effect. And Beyonce’s metal arm bracelet thing…that thing is so ugly! What are they full metal alchemist? lol. At least she’s not wearing the cliched Kanye West glasses lol.

She looks like Cherrelle from Klimax

i see ya jackin cici jackin jackin cici..

and riri and bey bey

she’s a lame

love keri and timb, but this is getting kinda played..

Pharrell is a producer. You can always tell his tracks when you hear them.

Terry Richardson is a photographer. You can always tell his photos when you see them.

Melina is a MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR. You can always tell her music videos when you watch them. It’s just like Hype “Letterbox” Williams in the 90s, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. She has to develop a brand for herself just like any other artist to be successful in a jaded and crowded industry.

(Oh, and if you REALLY wanna know which Melina video this looks like, it’s Kylie’s In Your Arms. Good thing Melina was smart enough to know that most of the people watching Keri Hilson videos probably can’t recall that one.)

Everything is wrong, from her image to her sound. She can sing better than a lot of other artists, but her songs don’t show her vocal prowess. Her image makes her look like a boot legged Rihanna, the video looks like a cheap video that they tried to make look expensive.

Her label/management seem to think that by putting her in other peoples videos that will make her more famous, but most people outside of america have no idea who she is. Plus her image makes her forgettable. I think she is better off as a songwriter than an artist because the material she gives herself is really bad.

Another leotard!! She didn’t any clothes on in her other crappy video. She is a great writer but I have not heard anything from her that I like.

And the prize for Most Unoriginal Video of The Year goes to…

A real shame because you can see they definitely put the money and effort in, but someone needed to have said earlier on “erm… haven’t we seen this all before?”.

“Melina is a MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR. You can always tell her music videos when you watch them. It’s just like Hype “Letterbox” Williams in the 90s, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. She has to develop a brand for herself just like any other artist to be successful in a jaded and crowded industry. ”

i knew someone would say something like that….the difference is, when pharrell makes a track or hype directs a video.. they use signature ELEMENTS (ie the letterbox)…they don’t have their artists doing the same shots, on the same sets.
With this video, Melina has 2 different artists doing just that, which is just lazy. (ie the scene where Keri is in the tiled room is similar to ciara’s office scene, the “Big Brother” screen in some of the shots, the choreography shots in all black, the seated choreography on the chair) … to make matters worse, “Go Girl” JUST came out, so it actually feels like she recycled the treatment…

if she just reused some of the “distortion” effects she’s been using, that’d be cool. That’s a signature. But I think she did Keri a disservice with this video by not giving her somehing unique with ELEMENTS

Yall swear KERI was the creative director on this and she decided to choose scenes from other videos.. SMH.. yall REALLY need to sit down and get educated on how the industry works.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ORIGINALITY.

Yall are sayin she’s bitin off Ciara’s and Rihanna’s and Beyonce’s when THEYRE some of the biggest biters of them all? LOL. Learn about where their music / dancing / hair styles and videos REALLY come from. Rihanna takes her video ideas from Alternative / Rock videos, and yall people that only listen to RnB n hip hop think its somethin new. She dont even write!! Cmon ppl! And Ciara used 90’s music videos to inspire her Promise video. So thats NOT original either. Dancing in water? Been around for decades…

I just think everybody is being extra harsh because shes the new chick in the game, and i salute her for coming out around the same time as Beyonce, Ciara, and Brandy, since they have the charts on lock.

Be nice yall… its a recession =D

Why All The Hate? Yall are some real life haters.

If you don’t like it then don’t buy it, or change the station.

This girl is out here giving her all trying to entertain, and the “crab in the barrel”
mentality is still alive and well.

Song is not good at ALL. Sorry. Video is def a mash up of other concepts, but unfortunately, that’s the standard. And Slow Dance is a way better song than this. That song and video (if done right), could’ve really put her on the map.

I really liked the video. And the mirror scence did remind me of rihanna’s video. but i think she looked much prettier in that scene.
but yea, i dont think any one should compare her to any other female singers.

As soon as someone see’s an artist that reminds them of another artist they’re just automatically think that the person is trying to be someone else.

You have to realize that are people in he world that do like similar things.And that shouldnt stop you from doing what you want just because someone did it first!***

wow… I didn’t think I would like Keri when she made her debut from behind the scenes… but this chick is bad! I love it… nice voice, she can dance… love the video and the different elements… I see Timb put a little Aliyah spin on her and the video… Keri has personality and it exudes this is mine I own it and this not a marketing plan…work it!

Oh, I was like, Solange wurring a short wig?? LOL

i dont like this as a 2nd single..and i dont see her copying anything..u can never have something about an artist without bringing up BEYONCE’s name or RIHANNA’s name..damn man! WTF!

i think she switched up front the original version because it got leaked
& people act like she went to Melinda and said i want to steal ideas from these videos
its the director who mainly is responsible for what we see, this video is Melinda’s style think about it if you look at all the videos she directed they all share most of the same elements………….

love it, video was dope. Keri is such a pretty lady and actually has talent and CAN SING LIVE! unlike some other artists i’ll keep nameless. lol. hmm.

didnt like that hairstyle tho, does nothing for her. new hairdresser ASAP.

Love Keri Hilson!!!
Hate the song and the video is just okay…
Out of all the songs she has recorded why is this the second single.

no…sorry.

This has to be the dumbest shiggidy i’ve ever seen. She’s another one of those pretty girls with a horrible stylist and wack dancing if that’s what you consider it. I have no idea what she’s trying to do. It’s like she’s trying to be so off the wall that it’s tacky. I wish her luck as an artists, maybe she should stick to writing.

umm… as much as i love and support Keri.. there was just to much Rhianna going on… the mirrors… can we say… “SoS” and then the dancing in the water with all black… that was umbrella… well maybe they meant to do that… like on purpose… you know.. im not so sure…

but it def didnt wow me…

but still love that Keri!

I liked the song (didnt love it) but I didnt like the video. Keep in mind though Keri is non the less is one of the most talented woman in the bizness!

Facts::

Ciara’s Go Girl video copied Rihannas Disturbia with sharp movements

Rihannas Umbrella copied Aaliyah’s video with the water dance scene, damn i remember TLC dancin in some water also if you wanna add them too!

Rihanna SOS- yes i agree! boxed in the mirror scene was a bit scary cuz i remembered rihanna’s video instantly thought she was gone break the glass with a chair too! but Mary also did the same thing so really who copied who? Did mary copy rihanna or did rihanna copy Mary?

Beyonce Upgrade you- that did NOT look like this video. It did however remind me of tamia’s video (waaaaaaaaay back in the day) does tamia even sing anymore to make video

At the end of the day…the video just wasnt what we all expected it to be…cut her some slack next time shell just have to come harder.

i think it is the best… she is so sexy and i love how she is……. that video is so hot it must be makin u all blind cuz we not watchin da same vid

She is beautiful. I like the song and the video. Ya’ll r 2 much on here. Keri still gon b makin her money regardless, while ya’ll on her talkin shit. I’m gettin the album when it come out

She looks good. I liked how she had her hair in chris brown video tho… Is it me or is she a little sexually charged?

F’ Rihanna, wit her no talent ass. Do ya thing Keri!

Lol I like how the video is sexy yet classy even tho the song is freaky… My kinda song

keri hilon or one of her stan is on here trying to diss rihanna, don’t be cause keri copying rihanna in this video. she’s wack

she sounds like amerie

she look good in the video hope she go far in her music career

I like the song but it seems like she’s taking Rihanna’s style? I can’t help but to think of Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and “Disturbia” videos when I watch this, hmmmm???

Video is aaight.

timbaland needs to be taken away from this video, this sounds like “the way I are”. Video reminds me too much of Janet and Ciara.

this song is whack to the full power and the video is whack as well……

I like it! Well…I agree that the video is ripping off alot of other videos (no need to mention names) the only scene that really stuck out was the multiple mirror scene when she was in the pink dress…seen that b4. I think she is trying to duplicate the success of The Way I Are which is a smart move, but not sure if the song is catchy enough. Nonetheless she looks good in the vid, she is a natural beauty. Makeup is fierce for the scene in the pink dress. Not feeling the dance moves near the end, dancing in water with the chunky jewlery tho.

I LOVE Keri, Loved energy and superhuman more than this song, but it was good, fuck yall haters,…that y none of u got a record label…a real one at least if u do got one

YALL HATTIN CAUSE SHE CAN TAKE ELEMENTS THAT SHE NOTICED IN OTHER PPL THAT MAD THEM GREAT COMBINE IT WITH HER TALENT AND MAKE IT HER OWN!!!! SHE DIDNT STEAL ANYTHING ITS THE DIRECTORS VIDEO SO SHE CAN ONLY ALTER SO MUCH
KERI IS UNIQUE
EVEN THOUGH THEY SHOULDNT ALTERED THE SONG
THAT WAS MY FAV PART OF IT THAT THEY TOOK OUT

Do your thing Keri

I Think Keri has a future as an artist but she just need 2 find her own look and stick with it. I liked her hair in energy wit the blonde under the black. The video was cute tho

Thank God i’ve cut down drastically on watching music videos…. all i saw when i watched the video was a beautiful girl with her own brand of swagger miming a song that’s not that good. She is definitely all types of hot….

Someone needs to slap timbaland and tell him to allow Keri to do her. Fully. I don’t agree that she shouldn’t have a singing career, but maybe she should do a Kelis and make songs without trying to cater to the mainstream crowd. I see her as too credible to occupy the same spot as Beyonce and rhianna. EVERYTHING on the charts suck and real artists that are in charge of their music should be hoping that pop fans run towards them instead of the other way round.

The lyrics as well…… i guess everything done for a pop/r&b audience has to be so obvious or they won’t get it.

Video is fukkin HOTT!!!!! Keri is what’s up enough said.. All haters just STFU and keep it moving.. Dec. 9th is the day a banging ass album will drop and snatch wigs from you haters!!

arddd…. first i want to say i love keri hilson..she is very talented so it just makes me mad when people get on here and run their mouths.. cuz i doubt any of yall are trying to move from songwriter to performer….

second..”history repeats its self” everybody…. EVERYBODY! uses someone elses ideas..but did yall even think that maybe she did it on purpose ..hence the title “return the favor” she would just steal their concepts from the videos its to obvious

I prefer the other version! This one really throws me off!! The video is not bad though.

I love Keri. But the timbaland collabos have got to go!!! I hate them!!! AHHHHHHH……Her other songs are great I just feel like he doesn’t have to make his presence known on everysong…..damn! lol

Is it now wonder…Rihanna and Beyonce rule …..

Keri is pretty,can sing,but just doesn’t seem to have that it factor.I’m not really feeling her and it’s like the lyrics of this song reminds me of Nelly Furtado promiscuos girl but this song really songs.Keri I’m sorry hun,but you should continue to write songs and model or something useful.

Oh yeah One Rihanna is enough,we don’t need you.You have a nice voice,you can do better if you create your own lane or something.But if that doesn’t work,maybe you should do what I mentioned before.Do yourself a “favor”and stop while you’re a head and you’re not gonna do something fresh and different.