I have to say that mario was looking FRESH in this video… i LOVE the coat the gloves… i was really really feeling the clothes. The man has swag…but those nostrils man smh… lol yea just wish he’d be more mindful of them or something lmao.

The song is nice. I like it.

the funny thing is that the girl Audra in this video IS NOT AT ALL LATIN!!!!!! NOT ONE BIT! You guys are over here debating at topic that is not even relevant to this video!

@The Most…It is fine sweetie the you don’t like black women because you are just a shallow, insecure, wanna be of a man that cannot handle women of color and sucess.

There is nothing wrong with having enough sense to notice what is going on around you. If you choose to be ignorant to it, then that’s on you. These entertainers have a large amount of influence on the young minds of today. They shouldn’t, but let’s be real, they do. And there is no balance. More and more of these artists are going after women who look close to something white. She has to be mixed or close to white. (Kanye blatantly told y’all a few years back, and people still supporting this artists)
I think it’s time to stop blaming slavery for everything though. I think the point is that there is self-hate and they are trying to make money by trying to attract a larger audience. Just like movies, a black man and a black women lead makes it a black movie, But a black man with something other than black, will get more viewers and support. Money is the root of many evils, unfortunately. They know black women will support whatever garbage they put out there, so they’re not worried about them. They get both the black audience and the non-black audiences. I usually like to keep my comment short, but this video was just so blatant and some people are still talking about, “it’s just a video” “it’s really not that serious”, which makes no sense. I’m not even African American and I have enough sense to see what’s going.

@ Bluefin, my point exactly!
One thing I can’t stand is ‘Ignorance’ and sadly there is too much of it in the black community. One thing I am, is – ‘Socially Aware’, especially with black issues. A lot of black people need to take a leaf out of my book and get more socially conscious, especially the black males in question. Because I am afraid to say, if they don’t, they are going to be exploited forever and contribute to the extinction of the black race.

I don’t know how people can watch that video and not see what I am seeing. Really? Wow? You got to be kidding me!

Mario acts in a completely different way towards the non-black females, then he would if he were to have a black female in that video. It is so blatant that he finds non-black females to be more ‘beautiful’ then a darker skinned black woman, hence; why they are always so heavily featured in his videos.

The way he wines and dines them and caters for them and then towards the end how he strokes their hair, like they are some price trophy. It is ridiculous man, he looks like a slave up on that log, fondling with the slave masters daughter, while slave master is sleeping. It’s just the same ol’ clique Bull with these kinda black guys. I mean are they happy with always being seen as inferior? Because that is what men like Mario are doing to their image. While chasing the non-black female (especially white) like a love sick puppy, they are making themselves look inferior to other races in the process and highly foolish as well as unattractive.

… Oh yeah, I just did mention slavery. Sorry if that may offend some of you so called ‘forward thinking’ negroes, that have this delusional mindset, that we has blacks have to forget the past in order to move forward. Yet forgetting the most vital fact, that slavery is the reason why everything is how it is today! Ignoring the fact that the past paves way for the future and in order to make our future better, we have to look to the past and change certain elements in order not to make the same mistakes our ancestors made.

But most black people don’t want to do that, because slavery is such a taboo to a lot of you Nu-Skool Negroes. So we will continue to act in the same ignorant, self –destructive way. While whitey, will continue to have world domination over the world and influence us so intensely, where we begin to lose all sense of identity and well-being. Yes, I think that’s the solution, that’s the cure. Because let’s face it we as a race have not got the power to change a single damn thing, not really. *Sarcasm*

I looove the video and the fact it was filmed in city of LONDON, big up to L-ON-D-O-N!
neways i have no problem with the girl (i think she’s perfect for the role) in the video im multi-racial myself so i don’t give two hoots who they put in the video.
London is a very multi-racial and diverse society so we don’t really take notice of the colour of models in videos frankly nobody cares.
Lots of black men go out with white, coloumbian, russian, polish, egyptian, romanian, brazilian, Asian, Chinese, Persian incld. all of the above (mixed-race) women everyday and tons still go out with black women too there are too many different backgrounds to explore, and i don’t think black guys should be restricted to black women it’s unfair when there are so many different flavours out there, like cookies and cream lol. And when you are a mixture of races you tend to look more exotic than plain black, thats just life not prettier just more exotic so it catches your eye more.
so we brits tend not to be so focused on race and colour.
Most celebrities from England tend to be mixed because of the huge cultural fusion.
So i think america can learn a thing or too from us… don’t focus on the colour, don’t feel insecure about your own and just enjoy life. And don’t sip on the glass of haterade all the time cos it’ll kill you. LOL! I love diversity if it weren’t for diversity i wouldn’t exist.

SEXYLELEX

We understand what your saying and I agree, black people that are mixed tend to be more eye-catching and exotic. But I hope your not just referring to the lighter skinned mixed people, because mixture in the black race comes in all shades. I know darkskin people that have the chocolate skin shade, but their features look far from the generic black face. Its abit like Tupac. he was darkerskinned, but he had a very Euro-indian/asian look to him. I could also name alist of other dark skin black female and male celebrities that are like him.

I think its cool dat races mingle together and mate, I mean alot of interesting looking black people are coming out of it and giving the black race more diversity.

I think the main argument here is lack of appreciation. Its okay to be attracted to other races, nobody is saying that is wrong. What we are saying is be more APPRECIATIVE of your own race and dont dogg out a black female or male just because you think your dating outside your race. It dont make you better or superior. Because when you have that mentality your promoting institutional racism and that is something the black race dont need. We get to much of that from other races to be going down the route of self-inflicting ourselves with it!

Mario’s a flop, so black women don’t need to be in his videos . . . we (black women) are just not the standard of beauty for many brothers, regardless of how much Hawaiiian Silky #5 we wear . . .

Just a fyi Mario’s album is expected to move 20-25k units. So, if Mario or his record company thought that having a non-black woman in his video would give him crossover appeal, they were wrong. Now with regards to black men and there preference for anything non-black…”black women intimidate black men,” said it all! Cosign!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lmbo#6 thats to funny! I’m about to get fired messing with you!

LOVE ME SOME MARIO BUT LOOOOOOL HE COULD ONLY GET A 57 PLATE AUDI
!!

we are in 2009 so 59 would of been great if anything but het mayb he had to cut some costs loooooool
love that he went to london its the best city trusssss me mateys!!!!!!!! LDN ON THE MAP

Mario has been in the game for seven years these last two videos is the only videos he’s and different race of girls in his video : look on you tube you’ll see black girls in each of his videos:

“Just a Friend” - black girl
“Braid my hair” - black girl
“Cmon” - black girl
“Let me love you” - black girl
“How could you” - black girl
“How do i breathe” - black girl
“Crying out for me” - black girl

Cut him some slack, the same girl (Audra from richgirl) is in this one as a continuation to “Break Up” video that she was the lead in ( everybody raised a fit about too). Mario and RichGirl went on tour and he became friends thats why she’s in his video. Audra is Philippine and not black but shes in a all black singing group and the other main chick is hispanic. Maybe Mario is attracted to other races or maybe he’s just trying to appeal to european culture if im not mistaken Chris brown had a white women in his “Forever” video. I just think these young singers try to appeal to different audiences by having different races in video. But then again i might be wrong a lot of young black successful men think having a hispanic or white chick is a trophy it’s been like that since back in the day my grandma told me lol. I mean look at the movie American Gangster he thought having a latino women was the sh*t haha. And i’m a light skinned young female but i notice favoritism in Mario’s new vid not one brown skin chick is in their even the extras were light. But i’m a fan of Mario and he is a sweet person so i don’t believe he perfers other races to his own.

why people act like lite skin girls are the worst thing ever?! hell, at least it’s a black girl and not a white girl…

not to change the subject…but where did he get that gray coat from, i want one lol that jawn is fresh

Lighter skin is IN! Darker skin is OUT! Deal with it! I guess…

I love Mario still…

Album isnt going to sell though…heard all the tracks a year ago…

Kudos to him…he’s a GREAT TALENT! After all, that is all that matters. Now, what they do with that talent is a different story.

Agree with #88 he couldv’e had a snow bunny with blonde hair and blue eyes LOL people wouldv’e really went in on him heehee.

i just want to say that i liked the video didnt know a civil war was going on, here at concreteloop… smh

EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL GET A GRIP PPL.

I like mario, the song is ok, it ain’t bad, It’s just not a song that I would get on my ipod and play it often, it’s kinda borin’ 2 me, it’s basically the kinda song that’ll be hot on the countdown or radio 4 a few weeks, and then after that, you’ll get bored of it. that’s what I see of it anyway. the video was nice, I like the video, I wish that they didn’t promote the drink nuvo so much, I don’t understand why they always promote that drink soo much. but Mario did look sexy!!!!. and who cares if the leading lady is latina or black or white or any ethnicity , there are plenty of r&b/hip hop/rap artists who has beautiful black women as the leading ladies. and yes I am aware of the video hoes trend, but more so often you’d find a video with a “Leading Lady”, not a video hoe, alright!!!!, playin’ on the countdown. So y’all just relax, sit back & enjoy the show. be grateful that there are artists out there who love their gift of singin’ or rappin’ and wants 2 share that with us. now of course I do sometimes think that there are some artists out there who don’t deserve the spotlight as some of the true performin’/singin’/rappin’ artists should get. ya feel me?.

this argument is so old, get over it. when black girls are in videos, its a problem, when they’re not, its still a problem, just stfu.

love mario, the song and video.

@87 - oh she not black?! well, at least she colored…and thanks for making those points about his other videos…
still a nice video/song…

Good grief people, Mario and the girl in the video(Audra) were on tour earlier this year when the group Audra is in(RichGirl) and Mario did the BK FamFest tour, they know each other already, she isn’t some random model.

blablabla!!
all these boring essays are just annoying and repetitive!!
we don’t care about your frustrations!!it’s just a video

How did I miss that this was a continuation of the other video? At any rate, this song is slow to move but the vid is sexy.

so done with brothas not having sistahs in there videos, so done, if I were younger and purchased music, I wouldn’t support not one brotha or male group who doesn’t show case sistahs, the power is in the people use it !!!!

CONCUR #13 !!!!!!

PREACHHHH #28 you said nothing, but the TRUTH….

and believe me when I say I have inside scoop on the industry and our musical brothas goes out of their way not to feature sistahs in videos b/c of their insecurities.

You know our people are in DEEP trouble when we have the POWER to make a positive change, but instead choose to be part of the problem and self-hate mental cycle….geeshhhhh

@ 29 I think they were refering to hip hop videos where the “video ho’s” are dropping it low not a leading lady in a R&B video.

Very few singers actually have brown skined African American females as their leading lade in a video. Only two are coming to mind Ne-Yo & Robin Thicke. It doesn’t upset to the point that im going to boycott lol I’m just curious as to why it’s like that.

He looks sooooo good!!!! Who is his fashion stylist! they are amazing!!!!

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AMEN # 44 you laid the facts out !!!

thank you #31

I can’t stand when people don’t acknowledge the true protest of the matter at hand….

@ dumb negro men (#13)

YOU HAVE A VERY VALID POINT. I’M NOT RACIST BUT I FEEL YOU 110%

CONCRETE LOOP: PLEASE POST# 13 COMMENT ON PG#1 (IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER WHERE YOU POST HOT TOPICS AND ADVERTISEMENTS)
WE NEED TO WAKE UP AND STAND UP!!

WHY THE HELL DOES IT MATTER? lay it to rest women. And Chris Robinson is getting very good with his directing lately. I love the choice of location and shoots. Very beautiful imagery and the single is hot as well.

The same topic and debate has the same emotional essence that harbors hate and prejudice. It’s all bullshit…a white female could say the same thing about seeing to many “sista’s” and “chicas” in a video and movie. All this talk about black men hating black women and boycotting this and that is a load. This way of thinking leads to hateful thinking period. I love would love to see different races and ethnicities in many videos and movies.

the video was iiqht but THE SONG IS FIREEEEE!! i am in LOVEEEE..it has been on repeat in my ituness for a few dyass lol maybe jus i’m thinkn of someone in particular…

aint it the chick from the break up video???