When we last spoke, Rihanna was taking us behind the scenes of her new video in the making, ‘We Found Love.” The video debuted this Wednesday and it is a visual knockout. Directed by Melina Matsoukas — who also lensed “Rude Boy”, “Hard,” “S&M,” and Rockstar 101” — the video telIs the story of two young people floating on the highs of love. The twist is their passion is also packaged with verbal and physical abuse.

Rihanna explained, “We’ve never done a video like this before. This is probably one of the deepest videos I’ve ever done. It’s all about love and love being like a drug… you definitely get that from this. The good feeling of it and the dangers of it. That’s what this video is about.”

Naturally her relationship with Chris Brown immediately comes to mind. Something, Rihanna isn’t saying outright, but with a scene where she jumps out of a car during an argument and slams the door, it’s pretty clear where she’s drawing from.

Speaking about Chris Brown, during a MTV interview a few years ago, Rihanna said, “It was a life-changing experience for both of us. The best way that we can both win is if we come out learning from it and sharing with others, so they don’t have to go through it like we did.”

If you’re wondering/drooling, the guy in the video is British model/boxer Dudley O’Shaughnessy (pics).