The R&B star, clad in a miniskirt, gyrated her hips and bent over while Ross jokingly covered his eyes with his hands. Earlier in the show, which aired in the U.K. on Saturday (03Mar12), Rihanna defended her racy dancing as part of her Barbadian culture.
She told Ross, "I don't really ever notice it, or think about it, until the feedback. It really made me think about this for a long time as to why it is this way, why people find it so sexual, but going back to Carnival in Barbados, the Crop Over (festival), this year I really notice that it's a cultural thing. It's the way we move...
"I always stay true to the message in the song, the message that I'm trying to get over with the visual. A lot of the time the music videos are banned, but you can't let your art suffer for that. You have to accept people have their own standards."