Rihanna in her new "Hard" music video

Rihanna‘s new “Hard” music video is set to premiere tomorrow (Thurs. Dec 17) on MTV at 4 PM and her label Def Jam released a 30-secod snippet of the video (which will also feature rapper Young Jeezy) yesterday. Click here to check it out and continue reading for more screen caps from the video!

The preview features the singer dressed in military garb. It’s hardly a regulation uniform, though, as she’s not wearing pants and at one point pulls her green fatigue shirt open to reveal her chest (with black tape over her breasts). It’s the sort of sexy warfare motif that has been all over the artwork for Rated R (most notably the cover to the “Russian Roulette” single).

Rihanna in her new "Hard" music video

Rihanna in her new "Hard" music video

Rihanna in her new "Hard" music video

“It’s couture military,” Rihanna explained to MTV News during a visit to the video’s set two weeks ago. “Everything is surrounded around the idea of something military. We have tanks, we have troops, we’ve got helicopters, we’ve got explosions. We’ve got lots of cute outfits, lots of bullets. It’s crazy.”

In another image from the video, she is wearing war paint and shoulder pads with spikes coming out of them. That scene takes place in a desert, which recalls the classic clip for Tupac’s “California Love.” It should give a nice boost to the already well-performing “Hard,” which currently sits in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.

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