Fierce Coldplay clip leaked to the Net on Saturday.
By Jocelyn Vena
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/coldplay/artist.jhtml">Coldplay</a> and <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/rihanna/artist.jhtml">Rihanna</a> have been <a href="/news/articles/1683470/coldplay-rihanna-princess-of-china-video.jhtml">teasing their "Princess of China"</a> video for a while now. On Saturday (June 2), the clip <a href="http://perezhilton.com/2012-06-02-coldplay-rihanna-princess-of-china-music-video" target="_blank">leaked</a> ahead of its scheduled Monday release date.</P><P>The trippy video is full of surreal images that play on the song's references to Asia, with Chris Martin and Rihanna donning all sorts of ninja and ninja-goddess couture. A desert, the sky and some ancient-looking Chinese palaces all serve as backgrounds. Martin and Rih Rih also do some sword-wielding and ninja kicks, for good measure.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="To Coldplay's 'Great Surprise' Rihanna Agreed To Collabo" id="vid:692435" width="415" height="255"></div><p> In more emotional parts of the clip, Rihanna and Martin, playing star-crossed lovers, kneel in the desert, forehead to forehead, as they mourn the loss of their love. But the moving image soon turns violent as they float through the air and partake in a ninja battle.</P><P>Much like the characters in the song, the onscreen characters are torn up about their dying love. And while the love story is at the center of the clip, Rihanna's look is also a standout as she appears in several forms: multi-armed goddess, heartbroken geisha and fierce warrior princess.</P><P>The official June 4 release date had been <a href="/news/articles/1684017/coldplay-rihanna-princess-of-china-video.jhtml">pushed back from May</a> before leaking to the Net on Saturday, the same day Rihanna dropped some behind-the-scenes photos on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150962656106676.393694.10092511675&type=1" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. In the images, her hair is done up in a geisha bun and she wears long, fringe earrings. They're similar to <a href="http://rapfix.mtv.com/2012/03/23/rihanna-geisha-coldplay-princess-of-china-video">shots</a> she released back in March from the video shoot.</P><P>"Her bit on our record is my favorite bit," the Coldplay frontman told MTV News last fall about Rihanna's feature on <a href="/news/articles/1671007/coldplay-rihanna-mylo-xyloto.jhtml"><i>Mylo Xyloto</i></a>. "When the song came out, it sort of asked for her to be on it. And I think at this point, we have nothing to lose, and so we've been trying some new things and trying to break down the perceived boundaries between different types of music."</P><P><i>Share your thoughts on the "Princess of China" video in the comments!</i></p>
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