Pop / R&B · 2007
Generate an AI dance video to Umbrella, Rihanna's 2007 Good Girl Gone Bad single that defined the second half of the 2000s. Upload a photo of yourself, a friend, or anyone — our AI maps the music video's silhouette choreography (the gold-paint flick, the umbrella pop, the seated chair spins) onto the subject.
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Choreographer: Hi-Hat (Tanisha Scott)
Umbrella spent 10 consecutive weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart and 7 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the longest #1 run of Rihanna's career. The music video, directed by Chris Applebaum, turned the umbrella from a weather accessory into a fashion prop and gave a generation of viewers the template for rain-choreography. Two decades later, the 'ella-ella-ella' refrain is still one of the most recognizable hooks in pop history — the kind of audio that triggers instant recognition when it starts.
Cultural Note
Umbrella almost never reached Rihanna. The song was originally written by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart for Britney Spears, rejected by her label, offered to Mary J. Blige (also rejected), and only then passed to Rihanna. Def Jam pushed to make it her lead single against internal skepticism — nobody inside the label was sure a 19-year-old Barbadian singer could carry a song this big. The resulting video, shot in three days, won MTV Video of the Year 2007 and redefined what a pop music video could look like with almost no cuts — just long-take choreography against solid colored backgrounds.
Front-facing full-body photos work best — Umbrella's iconic silhouette moments need the full body in frame
Solid-color backgrounds reproduce the music video's aesthetic and help the AI render the choreography cleanly
Photos with one arm raised or extended produce the most authentic umbrella-prop silhouette
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