We're just askin'.



There are an awful lot of close similarities between pop diva Rihanna's new music video and previous work by Yara Travieso, a 2014-15 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Grantee and a 2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist in Residence.





Here's the Rihanna music video for her song 'American Oxygen'.











Here's Yara's original work.









Not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Reminds us of a similar controversy around Pharrell's song 'Happy.'

[Thanks, Joe Sabia!]