Rihanna goes Beyond

The new Star Trek movie Beyond features Rihanna's new song called Sledgehammer which is - considering the meaning of the title - it's quite fit in to the story line as far as we know about it. The new song came with a video clip as well which also features a few very great CGI footage from the USS Enterprise, the Starbase Yorktown and the Swarm ships. One thing what I've realized watching the beginning of the music video as it really reminds me to the 1st Star Trek Motion Picture poster, as the ship sailing into the unknown and Rihanna's face blend into the surrounding space just like Kirk, Spock ans Ilia's face... I like the song although if it's not coming with the movie I would probably never press play. :)

Mixing Star Trek with pop music it's a tricky area I believe  as it can be bad if they don't choose well. I had this issue with the Enterprise into music Faith in the Heart. At the beginning it was a bit strange as all the other series had a serious "space opera" in the intro. Watching the series, listening the intro after 10 episode it just became more part of the show. Now that melody id ours... so does this one. ;)

LLAP _\\//