wrote "At one extreme, the resemblance of 'Umbrella's chorus to that of a stadium rock ballad seems to have encouraged Rihanna to cut out the middle-man and just start making stadium rock: cue the awful widdly-woo guitars of 'Rockstar 101' and 'Fire Bomb. Chart performance "Rockstar 101" made its first chart appearance on the United States' Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, where it peaked at number two; it stayed on the chart for 14 weeks. The song peaked on the US Hot Digital Songs chart at number 28, spending seven weeks on the chart. It subsequently peaked at number 64 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent five weeks on the chart. It also peaked at number 10 on the US R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs chart. "Rockstar 101" debuted on the Australian Singles Chart at number 50 on August 22, 2010; it peaked at number 24 two weeks later for one week, and remained on the chart for six weeks. Music video Background The director Melina Matsoukas filmed the music video for "Rockstar 101" in April 2010; she had previously directed the videos for Rihanna's singles "Hard" and "Rude Boy". This video was edited by Nabil Mechi from Murex, who previously edit videos for "SOS" and "Umbrella". On May 19, 2010, Rihanna released a 30-second sneak-peek preview of the video on the internet, whilst the full video premiered on May 25, 2010 through the high-definition music video website Vevo. Synopsis According to Jayson Rodriguez of MTV, the video is "a mix of goth bondage-esque voyeurism, complete with Rihanna's gyrating moves and a raging band that features Travis Barker on the drums". Shortly after the video was released, Slash said that he was "flattered" that Rihanna had impersonated him in the video, saying "The video is way better with her being me than with me being me ...all things considered, it brings an element of sexuality to it that I probably wouldn't have been capable of. I think it's hot. Everything works out the way it's supposed to." Although Slash is featured on "Rockstar 101", he does not appear in the music video. Instead, Rihanna pays homage to him by impersonating him by presenting herself wearing a skull-laden top hat, wig, leather jacket, dark glasses and toothpick: Rihanna can be seen strumming a guitar Slash's style. Rihanna is seen in eight different scenes and settings, one of which showed an