page_title: Loud Tour Live at the O2
section_title: Concert synopsis
hierarchical_section_title: Loud Tour Live at the O2 / Concert synopsis
caption_attribution_description: English: Rihanna Live at Oracle Arena on her LOUD Tour.
context_page_description: Loud Tour Live at the O2 is the second live long-form video by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released on December 13, 2012 by SRP and Def Jam Recordings. The DVD and Blu-ray Disc release feature her concert at The O2 Arena in London, England as part of the Loud Tour, in support of her fifth studio album Loud. Directed by Nick Wickham and produced by Ciarra Pardo and Emer Patten, it was filmed during the last three shows in London.
  The concert consists of five sets including the encore and feature songs from Loud as well as Rihanna's previous albums including Good Girl Gone Bad and Rated R. Loud Tour Live at the O2 debuted within the top ten on over ten national music video charts. It was most successful in France and Belgium where the release peaked at number two. On the US Billboard Music Video Sales chart, the album peaked at number 11.
context_section_description: Loud Tour Live at the O2 begins with Rihanna and her team arriving with a ferryboat on a dock. Rihanna continues to walk through and explains how she's feeling very sad and emotional as a result of the Loud Tour ending. The singer starts crying and explains that she and her team have done very good things this year and she believes those things wouldn't happen without the support of her fans. However, now she has to go back to Los Angeles where she doesn't have any friends; her "very best" friends travel with her around the world. Before getting into the van, Rihanna says that the tour was one of her best experiences of her life and talks about how she will miss her fans the upcoming year. Scenes are intercut with the start of the show at The O2 Arena. After the interlude, Rihanna starts the show with the opening song "Only Girl (In the World)". Emerging from a purple ball, the singer performs the song while wearing a blue electric dress and is surrounded by four backup dancers. As "Disturbia" starts she removes the dress and reveals a colorful daisy duke. For the performance of "Shut Up and Drive" a car is present during the scene, to which Rihanna climbs while performing. The set finishes with a rendition of "Man Down".
  Scenes are intercut with Rihanna heading to her show in a metro, together with her audience. As she gets into the arena, scenes are intercut and show the singer and her crew preparing for the start of the show and shouting the name of the cities in which they performed. The scenes are again intercut with Rihanna talking about her love towards Miami, and how she moved first in the city when she got signed to the label. Scenes of her and friends taking shots and having fun are further shown. Then, Rihanna explains how the second section of the Loud Tour is called "Le Sex Shoppe"; the director of the tour Jamie King was inspired for creating the section after he saw online the pictures of the singer visiting a sex shop in Australia. A scene of an early rehearsal for the tour is also shown, before seeing Rihanna performing "S&M" live on the concert. After the song, she performs "Skin"; during the performance, the singer takes two girls from the audience and performs lap dance as the set finishes with Nuno Bettencourt having a guitar solo. The scenes are intercut with Rihanna getting ready for the shoot of her We Found Love music video. Several scenes of Rihanna including getting off the plane, choosing clothes, getting ready for a shoot and greeting her fans are shown. The next parts of the video show her at the studio while recording her sixth studio album Talk That Talk (2011). Scenes are intercut with her doing the photo session for the album. Rihanna is shown at an Armani design meeting in London. She is talking about the commercial which they are preparing to shoot for the design company. Black-and-white scenes of Rihanna getting ready to go on stage again are shown before she starts performing "Raining Men". The performance of the song features her performing the song on top of a pink tank. Then, she gets off the tank and performs "Hard" and "Breakin' Dishes".
  After the performances, scenes of Rihanna and her team are shown choosing the artwork for Talk That Talk, as well as Rihanna preparing for her appearance on Ellen DeGeneres Show. She also discusses the breakdown she had during the tour. After the interlude, the singer is back on the stage wearing a yellow dress, performing "Unfaithful" on a platform. Then, she sings "Hate That I Love You" while sitting on a chair and then "California King Bed" as the last song from the set. Scenes of Rihanna having fun with her fans and making a birthday party for her manager Jay Brown is shown. Scenes of the singer in Madrid, one week before Christmas are shown; she takes a tour on the bus with which they are traveling around Europe. Rihanna is then shown getting ready for the show before starting to perform "What's My Name?" in daisy duke accompanied with four female dancers. She performs "Rude Boy" and is accompanied by male dancers wearing colorful outfits. 
caption: Rihanna performing the opening song "Only Girl (In the World)"
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